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u But e ' en in the tranguillest dimes Light breezes will ruffle the flowers sometimes , " and certainly Mr . Clackman ' s attack upon her powers of speech and their application , quickened the current in her veins and kindled her eyes . " My unhappy tongue ! " she repeated ; " truly , Mr . Clackman , if your own was as innocent of offence as mine , you would "b y this time have peaceably finished your breakfast without
charge or challenge . My unhappy tongue ! yes truly , in one respect it is so , for 1 have told more lies since we have been married than you have spent pence , and all to screen you from the consequences of your unhappy nature—your monstrous miserable nature , I should rather say . When / urged the unlikelihood of its being Miss Apsley , did you not revive all that you could rap and rend about her mother , grandmother ,
aunts , and cousins , to prove , not merely the possibility , but the probability , of the truth of your story ? My telegraph at No . 9 indeed ! Out upon you , Mr Clackman ! before ever I stirred foot over the threshold of the door , how long did you hold Mr . Vincent Victim by the button , while you gave him an edition of the story , as usual , very much enlarged and considerably embellished ? My unhappy tongue , indeed ! why you are a hue and cry in yourself—a daily advertiser of tittle tattle . "
Here was a woman to keep to a text ; no " travelling out of the record , " as the lawyers say , with her . Fortunately this day was a November day , and though stormy it was brief . The consolatory presence of dinner produced a culm , and wine and walnuts were bringing" on an act of amnesty , when the kindly couple were disturbed by the noise of a rabble rout before their door , and a minute after the maid
rushed into the room declaring her fears that the mob would break the windows : to one of these Mrs . Clackman , to the horror of her husband , advanced , and hearing his name repeated she threw up the sash , when she recognized the voice of an acquaintance , who exclaimed— " Why , Clackman , here ' s a
transparency planted at your door—shall I read it to you ? " and without waiting for permission he cleared his voice and proceeded— CLACKMAN . & Co .
GOSSIPS , TATLERS , AND TALEBEARERS IN GENERAL . N . B . Report 8 raised und circulated to any extent on the shortest notice ; new versions of old stories , with variations and accompaniments , on the lowest terms . ''
Call the watch ! " exclaimed , amid the shouts of the crowd , the exasperated and undaunted Mrs . Clackman . In those days the now defunct sagos oi' the staff and lantern flourished , aa well as their staves , and were principally remarkable for " calling everything quite clear except the hour , " and keeping the peace by snoring only in the watch-box .
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178 Sketches qf Domestic Ufe .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1836, page 178, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2655/page/50/
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