. Thackerayana;. be abovetrifles :— This, dear Jenny, is the reason that the quarrel between SirHarry and his lady, which began about her squirrel, is irrecon-cilable. Sir Harry was reading a grave author \ she runs into hisstudy, and, in a playing humour, claps the squirrel upon the folio :he threw the animal, ina rage, on the floor; shesnatches it up again,calls Sir Harry a sourpedant, without good j£J#\Ujr jfnature or good man- J/7T \\\ ^^rers. This cast him ^^_V\> ^ L^into such a rage, thathe threw down the table before him, kicked the book round theroom, then recollected himself: Lord,
. Thackerayana;. be abovetrifles :— This, dear Jenny, is the reason that the quarrel between SirHarry and his lady, which began about her squirrel, is irrecon-cilable. Sir Harry was reading a grave author \ she runs into hisstudy, and, in a playing humour, claps the squirrel upon the folio :he threw the animal, ina rage, on the floor; shesnatches it up again,calls Sir Harry a sourpedant, without good j£J#\Ujr jfnature or good man- J/7T \\\ ^^rers. This cast him ^^_V\> ^ L^into such a rage, thathe threw down the table before him, kicked the book round theroom, then recollected himself: Lord, madam, said he, why didyou run into such expressions ? I was, said he, in the highestdelight with that author when you clapped your squirrel upon mybook ; and, smiling, added upon recollection, I have a great re-spect for your favourite, and pray let us be all friends. My ladywas so far from accepting this apology, that she immediately con-ceived a resolution to keep him under for ever, and, with a serious.
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