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At the words "tipsy parson," the minister burst into a loud laugh, and so did two or three others who had been at Mr. Reeside's. The grave deacon in the chair looked around with frowning wonder at such indecorum, and felt that especially ill-timed was the levity of the minister. "I do not understand this," he said, with great gravity.
Manlius, I have ascertained, was the only clergyman present." "Was that so?" asked the deacon of an individual who was at Mr. Reeside's. "Mr. Manlius was the only clergyman there," was replied. "Then," said Perkins, "if there was a drunken minister there, it must have been Mr. Manlius. I can draw no other inference." "Can Mr. Burton be found?" was now asked.
An individual immediately volunteered to go in search of him. In half an hour he was produced. As he entered the grave assembly, he looked around with great composure upon the array of solemn faces and eyes intently fixed upon him. He did not appear in the least abashed. "You were at Mr. Reeside's last week, at a dinner-party, I believe?" said the presiding deacon. "I was." "Did you see Mr.
"I can explain it," remarked an individual, rising, "as I happened to be at Mr. Reeside's, and know all about the 'tipsy parson. The cook of our kind hostess, in her culinary ingenuity, furnished a dessert, which she called 'tipsy parson, made, I believe, by soaking sponge-cake in brandy and pouring a custard over it.
One day one of Reeside's coaches was stopped near Philadelphia by three armed men, who ordered the nine passengers to alight and stand in a line. One of the robbers then mounted guard, while the other two made the terrified passengers deliver up their money and watches, and then rifled the mail bags.
Manlius was drunk at Mr. Reeside's dinner-party?" "I did," was the unhesitating answer. "Were you present at Mr. Reeside's?" "No, sir." "Did you see Mr. Manlius coming from the house intoxicated?" "No." "What evidence, then, have you of the truth of your charge? We have conversed this morning with several who were present, and all say that they observed nothing out of the way in Mr.
Manlius had been drunk on the day before, at Mr. Reeside's dinner-party. From lip to lip the scandal flew, with little less than electric quickness. It was all over the village by the next day. Some doubted, some denied, but the majority believed the story it was so likely to be true.
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