Excerpt from Sketches and Recollections, Vol. 2 of 2
Better late than never, was the motto of that ancient family, the Tardys: that of the Loiters was 'Slow and sure'
The deceased Sir Dawdlemore Tardy, of Neverdone Catsle, Bart., father to our present subject, married Miss Evelina Loiter, sole offspring of Sir Lag Loiter, Bart., of Limpingham Hall. Certain trifling circumstances appeared to render this marriage desirable - such as equality of rank, contiguity of the family estates the mutual affection which had long existed between the principal contracting parties, the fitness of their ages, the conformity of their habits, tastes, and disposition , &c. &c. Yet maturely considered, a more injudicious union caff harldly be imagined; for what, indeed, but the most disastrous consequences could be expected to result from the junction, not of the families, but of their mottoes!
In the formation of character, the operation of a precept frequently repeated, though imperceptable, is certain; and no one will venture to dispute that a person who can scarcely ever step into his carriage, or seal a letter, without finding the same maxim obtruded upon his attention, will insensibly become its slave. How much, then, must the case of such a one be aggravated, when abandoned to the influence of two such monitors, both pointing the same way!
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