Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1889 — Odd that She Got Mad. [ARTICLE]

Odd that She Got Mad.

Charles W’hymper, the well-known engraver and animal painter of London, told the following story a few years ago: “I dined at Aiderman So-and-so’s last night, and as a mark of honor his eldest daughter was assigned to me to take dow nto dinner. She’s a bright girl, but the way she drops her h’s is enough to make a man’s hair turn gray. But I got along very nicely with her, and Lady Bletherington on the other side, until the ladies were on the eve of retiring to the drawing-room. The Aiderman had but recently moved out to Highgate, and I was talking about the beautiful scenery near the house, the views to be had from the windows, the fine air, and so on, w hen Miss suddenly said, ‘I think I get prettier every day, don’t you ?’ What could she mean ? I didn’t care to answer, so I said, ‘I beg pardon—what did you say ?’ ‘I raid I think I get prettier every day.’ There was no mistaking her words, so I said, ‘Yes, indeed, you get prettier, and no wonder, in such fresh air and ’ But just then she caught her mother’s eye, and with the other ladies she left the room. As she went out she looked over her shoulder - with such withering scorn in her eyes that I knew I had put my foot in it somehow - . Then it hashed upon me that I had misunderstood her; she had dropped an h; what she had said was not a silly compliment to herself—the sentence really was, ‘I think Highgate prettier every day.” Mr. Whymper was never invited to Aiderman So-and-so’s again.— San Francisco Argonaut.