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ehuicing * round a corner , and it would be direcfly ,--- <* trhttt * s Ma ?^ 8 c~— pmy what is he doing- now ? " Tfte ^ fefrtestf : Wok wasonough for him to hang a query upbh ; and well H 4 kVew the vahie of the level or the leading question , according tB ^ rtie party he addressed , or the position in which they might be
placed . The pointed , the preliminary , the direct , or the dubious inquiry were in his hands a kind of tuning-fork for bringing tbe human instrument upon which he played to the desired tone . He was also an excellent master of the mute language of expression and gesture , and could pass from the innocent aspect of uninterested ignorance to the zesty eagerness , which is the sauce piquante to the narrative it provokes , and gives the addressed a sympathetic appetite with the addressor .
When Mr . Clackman came home of an evening , his wife would emigrate from the window to the fireside , while her cheek purpled with pleasure in expectation of the " opening of the budget . " No thrifty commercialist ever looked for the return of the traveller for his house , or more eagerly anticipated the orders with which he might come charged , than did Mrs . Clack man look for , and listen to , her husband , fraught , as he ever came , with matter for her current converse on the morrow .
Never did he disappoint her—< f Rich and rare were the tales he brought , And a tenfold charm from his tongue they caught /' ( He was a very clever person , and rather than lose credit , he would , like Fag in the School for Scandal , " forge both bill and endorsement ) . "
Will the bard of Ireland pardon this parody of his bright words ;—this desecration of anything so fair in illustrating that refuse of humanity—a gossip . Oh that England , than which , of all the nations of the earth , I deem none more capable of goodness and greatness , should permit the weeds which we so often perceive to cumber her soil—for instance that miserable weed littleness of mind ,
usurping the place which should be left Tree to raise those fair and flowering roots , self-respect and universal charity . Thus it is that scandal is a rife pestilence perpetually among ui , and servility — abject deference to fashion , wealth , aha station , a badge so commonly borne . Why , not to fold a note in the newest form , shall cost many a keener pang than they endure from the conscious dereliction of duty . How do we glory in the livery of some fool of fashion ! I remember one ,
now loat as beloved , speaking of " the Devonshire poke , " a Universal imitation of a natural infirmity of the modish duchess of that name , probably arising in her from malformation , or weakness of the spine . Pray let us not laugh at the courtiers of whom it ie related , that when they happened to have a king
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174 Sketches of domestic Life !
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1836, page 174, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2655/page/46/
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