. George Meredith in anecdote and criticism . O J,. < ?v. H ?S IN PARODY AND CARICATURE 189 You will, as usual, take the fat? queried Sir John. Lean for me to-day, retorted Joanna, with one of her brightflashes. Nay, nay, said her husband, that were against tradition,which assigns to you the fat. Joanna pouted. Her mind rebelled against dictation. Besides,were not her aphorisms superior to those of her husband? Thecold face of Sir John grew eloquent in protest. She paused, andthen with one wave of her stately arm swept mutton, platter, knife,fork, and caper sauce into the lap of Sir John, w
. George Meredith in anecdote and criticism . O J,. < ?v. H ?S IN PARODY AND CARICATURE 189 You will, as usual, take the fat? queried Sir John. Lean for me to-day, retorted Joanna, with one of her brightflashes. Nay, nay, said her husband, that were against tradition,which assigns to you the fat. Joanna pouted. Her mind rebelled against dictation. Besides,were not her aphorisms superior to those of her husband? Thecold face of Sir John grew eloquent in protest. She paused, andthen with one wave of her stately arm swept mutton, platter, knife,fork, and caper sauce into the lap of Sir John, whence the astonishedBInns, gasping in pain, with much labour rescued them. Joannahad disappeared in a flame of mocking laughter, and was heardabove calling on her maid for salts. But Sir John, ere yet the saucehad been fairly scraped from him, unclasped his note-book, and withtrembling fingers wrote therein, Pooles masterpieces are ever atthe mercy of an angry woman. But the world is hard, and there was little mercy shown forJoannas freak. Her
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