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Updated: May 22, 2025
"There's nothing the matter with the inside of your head at any rate, though the outside looks as if you'd been arguing with the parish bull." "This is a verra fine house," said Maclachlan slowly and slily. "A mere dog-kennel," said the doctor, "considering she's a Parker Putwell."
The Colonel, who had kept silent during the trouble, now plied the doctor with questions about the surrounding country. "It's a poor biding-place for a Parker Putwell," he replied. "If there's a drearier or lonelier stretch in England than the moorlands of Leek, I would not care to see it.
A Maclachlan has spoken it." The doctor went to an inner door and bawled, "Euphemia," and a discontented wisp of a woman answered his call. "Madam and gentlemen, my wife, Mistress Snooks, born a Parker Putwell. Mistress Snooks, like me, will bow to your will with pleasure, nor will you mislike her table, I assure you. Now, my buck, let's see to this crack in your head."
Here, on the right, was the woodward's cottage where the road began to run downhill into a bottom dark with ancient elms: there, on my left, in an open space among the boles, the moon showed up a worn, grey column which marked the spot where, in the wild days of the Roses, a Parker Putwell had slain a Blount in unfair fight for a light of love not worth the blood of a rabbit.
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