timpting

Updated: May 5, 2025

Yesterday itself she had cooked him a chicken as good as I could get at the Big House; "done to a turn, too, with a nice bit of Irish bacon on top, and a bowl of praties biled in their jackets and a basin of beautiful new buttermilk;" but no, never a taste nor a sup did he take of it. "It's just timpting Providence his reverence is, and it'll be glory to God if you'll tell him so."

Sir Hall Caine - The Woman Thou Gavest Me: Being the Story of Mary O'Neill