Lowme, Mr.

An elderly man in Milby who prides himself on his aristocracy. "Mr. Lowme, one of the most aristocratic men in Milby, said to have been 'brough up a gentleman', and to have had the gay habits accordant with that station, keeping his harriers and other expensive animals. He was now quite an elderly Lothario, reduced to the most economical sins; the prominent form of his gaiety being this of lounging at Mr. Gruby's door, embarrassing the servant-maids who came for grocery, and talking scandal with the rare passers-by." In the lists of originals prepared in Nuneaton after the publication of Scenes of Clerical Life, the original of Mr. Lowme is said to have been a Mr. Towle. (See Olcott, George Eliot, p. 16.)

<em>Janet's Repentance</em>

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