Word: phillpot
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...after living two days in this apartment that the Rev. Jenkyns Phillpot told his wife that to know the Butterfields was a liberal education. Phillpot's great trouble at home is that he cannot keep his own wash-rag; if the children get into the bath-room before him in the morning, they invariably use his wash-rag, and the consequence is that Phillpot's heart leaps for joy whenever he visits strangers and has a wash-rag all to himself; and then Phillpot has been strongly impressed by the portrait of Mrs. Butterfield over the mantel-piece...
While the discussion of Benjamin's future is going on in Mrs. Butterfield's room, Benjamin himself is in the parlor reading a book entitled, "Notes on the Reiterated Amens of the Sons of God," published by subscription, and left as a parting gift by the Rev. Jenkyns Phillpot...
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