Pittman, Mr.

An old lawyer in Milby, Mr. Dempster's partner. "No one in Milby considered old Pittman a virtuous man, and the elder townspeople were not at all backward in narrating the least advantageous portions of his biography in a very round unvarnished manner. Yet I could never observe that they trusted him any the less, or liked him any the worse." In the lists of originals prepared in Nuneaton after the publication of Scenes of Clerical Life a Mr. Greenway was given as the original of Mr. Pittman. (See Olcott, George Eliot, p. 16.)

<em>Janet's Repentance</em>

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