. Thackerayana;. Of Women. * Some of my fair correspondents have lately reproached me withnegligence and indifference to their sex. but if they could knowhow vain I am of so obliging a reprimand, they would be sensible,too, how little I deserved it. I am not so entirely a statue as to beinsensible of the power of beauty, nor so absolutely a womanscreature as to be blind to their little weaknesses, their prettyfollies and impertinences. It will be necessary to inform my readers that my landlady isan eminent milliner, and a considerable dealer in Flanders is one of those whom we call no
. Thackerayana;. Of Women. * Some of my fair correspondents have lately reproached me withnegligence and indifference to their sex. but if they could knowhow vain I am of so obliging a reprimand, they would be sensible,too, how little I deserved it. I am not so entirely a statue as to beinsensible of the power of beauty, nor so absolutely a womanscreature as to be blind to their little weaknesses, their prettyfollies and impertinences. It will be necessary to inform my readers that my landlady isan eminent milliner, and a considerable dealer in Flanders is one of those whom we call notable women; she has runthrough the rough and smooth of life, has a very good plain senseof things, and knows the world, as far as she is concerned in it,very well. I am very much entertained by her company; herdiscourse is sure to be seasoned with scandal, ancient and modern,which, though the morals and gravity of my character do not THE HUMOURIST: 313. allow me to join in, yet, such is the infirmity of human nature, Ifind it impossible to be heartily displeased with it as I ought. If I come in at a time when the shop, which is commodiouslysituated above stairs, is full of company, I usually place myself inan obscure corner of it, and observewhat passes with secret satisfaction. Tispleasant to hear my landlady, by themere incessancy of tittle-tattle, persuadeher pretty customers out of all the un-derstanding that they brought along withthem; and on the other side of the counterto see the little bosoms pant with irreso-lution, and swell at the view of trifles, which humour and customhave taught them to call necessary and convenient. Hard byperhaps stands a customer of inferior quality, a citizens wifesuppose her, who is reduced to the hard necessity of regulating herexpenses by her husbands allowance, and is bursting with vexationto know herself stinted to lace of but fifty shillings a yard; whereasif she could rise to three pounds, s
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