The Parson O' Dumford
By George Manville Fenn
18 Nov, 2019
Brief Extract: The seated man, who was smoking a very dirty and short clay pipe, was as broad-shouldered, as sturdy, and as well-knit; but while the one, in spite of a somewhat heavy build, was, so to speak, polished by exercise into grace; the other
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Brief Extract: The seated man, who was smoking a very dirty and short clay pipe, was as broad-shouldered, as sturdy, and as well-knit; but while the one, in spite of a somewhat heavy build, was, so to speak, polished by exercise into grace; the other was rough and angular and smirched as his countenance was by sweat and the grime of some manufacturing trade, he looked as brutal as his words. Less