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Updated: May 1, 2025
Passon, a bit o' Latin do go down wi' some folks in the gard'nin' line it do reely now!" "Talking of Sir Morton Pippitt," said Walden, disregarding his gardener's garrulity, "It seems he has visitors up at the Hall." "'E 'as so," returned Bainton; "Reg'ler weedy waifs an' strays o' 'umanity, if one may go by out'ard appearance; not a single firm, well-put-down leg among 'em.
Most of the callers had paid their 'duty visits' at a time of the afternoon when she was always out, roaming over her own woods and fields, and 'taking stock' as she said, of her own possessions, but on one or two occasions she had been caught 'in, and this was the case when Sir Morton Pippitt, accompanied by his daughter Tabitha, Mr. Julian Adderley, and Mr.
"I should, most certainly!" "Nonsense, nonsense!" said Sir Morton Pippitt, obtruding himself on the conversation at this moment "God bless my soul! Not so very long ago every churchyard in England used to have its regular clean out ha-ha-ha! all the bones and skulls used to be dug up and thrown together in a charnel house, higgledy-piggledy and nobody ever talked about sacrilege!
For that old Miss Tabitha's got a tongue as long as a tailor's yard-measure wot allus measures a bit oif to 'is own good, an' Sir Morton Pippitt he do nothin' but run wild-like all over the place a-talkin' of it everywhere, an' old Putty Leveson, he's up at the 'All, day in, an' day out, tellin' 'ow you was goin' to hit 'im in the eye hor-hor-hor! an' why didn't ye do it, Passon?
Sir Morton Pippitt still occasionally sends me a spluttering note of information as to something you have, or have not done, to the church on which you have spent the greater part of your personal fortune; and Leveson, the minister at Badsworth, appears to think that I should assist him by heading a subscription list to obtain funds for the purpose of making his church as perfect a gem of architecture as yours.
Sir Morton Pippitt fired off bumptious observations at Walden, who paid no heed to them Bruce Ittlethwaite of Ittlethwaite Park, found a congenial spirit in Lord Charlemont, and talked sport right through the repast and Louis Gigue enlivened the table by a sudden discussion with Mr. Marius Longford, relative to the position of art in Great Britain.
Maryllia, pausing on the step of the porch as she was about to enter, turned her head back towards him for a moment. "Are you staying long at Badsworth Hall?" she asked. "About a fortnight or three weeks," he answered carelessly, "Mr. Longford is doing some literary work and needs the quiet of the country and Sir Morton Pippitt is good enough to wish us to extend our visit."
Upon my word, it does me good to say it a blatant ass! And Sir Morton Pippitt is another!" He laughed, and lifting his hat from his forehead, let the soft wind breathe refreshing coolness on his uncovered hair. "There are decided limits to Christian love!" he said, the laughter still dancing in his eyes. "I defy I positively defy anyone to love Leveson!
Lord Roxmouth essayed to be witty and conversational, but received so little encouragement in his sallies from Maryllia, that he had to content himself with Lady Wicketts, whom he found a terrible bore. Sir Morton Pippitt, eating heartily of everything, was gradually becoming purple in the face and somnolent under the influence of wine and food, Mrs.
"Quite quite!" agreed Julian Adderley "I considered him exceptionally so when I first saw him in his own church, opposing a calm front to the intrusive pomposity and appalling ignorance of our venerable acquaintance, Sir Morton Pippitt. I decided that I had found a Man. So new! so fresh! That is why I took a cottage for the summer close by, that I might be near the rare specimen!"
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