Life — November 10, 1892 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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AT SEIGSERS AT Here. is Thackeray's version of his first meeting with Charlotte Bronte. rsonally unknown to her, with a passion of “* Behold a lion cometh out of the North! she quoted’ under her breath, Some one repeated it to him. ‘and Lam nothing but a poor devil of an Englishman, intense creature had idealized Thackeray, idealization. as Thackeray entered the drawing-room. “0 Lord !" said Thackeray - LI Wis The tiny, ravenous for my dinner!" At dinner, Miss Bronte was placed opposite Thackeray by her own request. “And I had,” said he, ‘the miserable humiliation of seeing her ideal ef me disappearing down my own throat, as everything went into my mouth and nothing came out of it; untilat last, as I took my fifth tato, she leaned across, with clasped bands and tears in her eyes, and breathed imploringly : “Oh, Mr, Thackeray! Don't !- Argonaut. NAPOLEON described Talleyrand as one whose face woukd preserve a smile while he was being kicked from behind. the mot will cling to Napoleon forever. Cxsar with Napoleon : "But, after all, Carsar was ag applied to the modem Czrsar. tleman.” He twitted a lady, whom he had forced into the house- ‘Taileyrand had his revenge. “Itis a pity,” he said, ‘that so great a man should have such bad manners.” Macaulay has said the same thing in comparing And The word ‘ gentleman” could never be of the Empress Josephine, with the fact that ‘she was marked by the small-pox, and received the retort : F'E ‘A Frenchman would never have told me that." When Mme. de Talleyrand was presented at court, he had nothing more gracious to say than: “+ T hope that the conduct of Mme. Talleyrand will cause the levities of Mme. Grand to be forgotten ;" an insult which drew forth the rejoinder : “1 could not follow a better example than that of Citoyenne Bonaparte."~ Argonaut. “ONE more question, sir, before you begin 1” “Well, madam ?"” ++ Is it possible to distinguish real stones from false ones on the photo ?”—Lustigr Blatter. CARLYLE smoked often and complained much of dyspepsia. A friend once ventured to suggest that his smoking might, perhaps, injure and depress him. ‘ Yes,” Cariye said, “and the doctors told me the same thing. I left off smoking and was very meese- able’; so I took to it again and was very meeserable still; but I thought it better to smote and be meeserable than to go without."—Argonaut, Prince JEROME NAPOLEON had a strange hallucination that he had taken part it his uncle’s campaigns, and had headed a charge of cavalry at Waterloo. George the Fourth was gifted with a similar hallucination, and on one occasion, when prince-regeet had referred to the Duke of Wellington, who was sitting opposite ‘to him at dinner, to confirm his statement that he had commanded a cavalry corps at Waterloo. His grace merely replied : ‘I have always heard your royal highness say so."—Argonaut. Woman (to herself): It scares me half to death to drive this horse. I wonder what he'll do next. Horse. (fo Aimsel) everything on the road. That must be a woman driving, or I wouldn't be jammed into New York Weekly. The Noblest Breakfast Food on Earth? Tea Most Novrsmine REE Pampiew Paaeuy quaiied to ail N. B. Off fe ‘Ts B Otice, 109 Tremont St, Philadelphia Office. 632 Arch St, Western Gtice, tor Wabash Ave., Handrau dCo, BUILDERS OF Carriages OF THE BEST CLASS, FOR TOWN AND COUNTRY. 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