Budd, Mr.

Churchwarden at Milby; a satellite of Lawyer Dempster's. "Mr. Budd was a small, sleekheaded bachelor of five and forty, whose scandalous life had long furnished his more moral neighbours with an after-dinner joke. He had no other striking characteristic, except that he was a currier of choleric temperament, so that you might wonder why he had been chosen as clergyman's churchwarden, if I did not tell you that he had recently been elected through Mr. Dempster's exertions, in order that his zeal against the threatened evening lecture might be backed by the dignity of office." The original of Mr. Budd was said to have been a Mr. Burton.

<em>Janet's Repentance</em>

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