Fifty years ago . WITH THE WITS 205 House, and Avhen the crash came in 1849, and theplace was sold up by the creditors, it is on record thatthe author of Vanity Fair was the only person whoshowed emotion. Mr. Thackeray also came, wrote theCountesss valet to his mistress, who had taken refugein Paris, and he went away with tears in his eyes ; heis perhaps the oiily person I have seen really affectedat your departure. In 1837 he was twenty-six yearsof age, but he had still to wait for twelve years beforehe was to take his real place in literature, and even thenand until the day of his death ther
Fifty years ago . WITH THE WITS 205 House, and Avhen the crash came in 1849, and theplace was sold up by the creditors, it is on record thatthe author of Vanity Fair was the only person whoshowed emotion. Mr. Thackeray also came, wrote theCountesss valet to his mistress, who had taken refugein Paris, and he went away with tears in his eyes ; heis perhaps the oiily person I have seen really affectedat your departure. In 1837 he was twenty-six yearsof age, but he had still to wait for twelve years beforehe was to take his real place in literature, and even thenand until the day of his death there were many whocould not understand his greatness. As regards Lady Blessington, her morals may havebeen deplorable, but there must have been somethingsingularly attractive about her manners and conversa-tion. It is not by a stupid or an unattractive womanthat such success as hers was attained. Her novels, sofar as I have been able to read them, show no remark-able ability, and lier portrait shows amiability rather
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