Pilgrim, Mr.

A prosperous doctor in Milby. "Mr. Pilgrim, the doctor from the nearest market-town, who, though occasionally affecting aristocratic airs, and giving late dinners with enigmatic sidedishes and poisonous port, is never so comfortable as when he is relaxing his professional legs in one of those excellent farm-houses where the mice are sleek and the mistress sickly." "Pilgrim was tall, heavy, roughmannered, and spluttering . . . The doctor's estimate, even of a confiding patient, was apt to rise and fall with the entries in the day-book; and I have known Mr. Pilgrim discover the most unexpected virtues in a patient seized with a promising illness. . . . Doubtless this crescendo of benevolence was partly due to feelings not at all represented by the entries in the day-book; for in Mr. Pilgrim's heart, too, there was a latent store of tenderness and pity which flowed forth at the sight of suffering." The original of Mr. Pilgrim was a well-known doctor, Mr. Bucknill. (Manuscript in formation; also Olcott, George Eliot, p. 14; Parkinson, Scenes, p. 57.)

Multiple (The Sad Fortunes of the Reverend Amos Barton, Mr. Gilfil's Love Story, Janet's Repentance)

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