But I could not extract from her a word that had passed worth recording.
I do not think that he was popular with his neighbours generally.
There were stories current, at Lowther among other places, which imputed to him a tendency to outstay his welcome when invited to visit in a house.

I suspect there was a little bit of a feud between him and my brother-in-law, Mr.Tilley, who was the Post Office surveyor of the district.

Wordsworth as receiver of taxes, or issuer of licenses or whatever it was, would have increased the profits of his place if the mail coach had paid its dues, whether for taxes or license, at his end of the journey instead of at Kendal, as had been the practice.

But of course any such change would have been as much to the detriment of the man at Kendal as to Wordsworth's advantage.

And my brother-in-law, thinking such a change unjust, would not permit it.
I cannot say that on the whole the impression made on me by the poet on that occasion (always with the notable exception of his recital of his own poetry) was a pleasant one.