Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 140, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1903 — Thaekeray's'Satire. [ARTICLE]

Thaekeray's'Satire.

Tbtwtosmy created Quite erroneous Impressions of himself by often lndolging In Irony In the presence of people who were incapable of understanding it One curious Instance which be gave was this: Thackeray had been dining at the Garrick and was talking in the smoking room after dinner with various club acquaintances. One of them happening to have left hid cigar case .at home, Thackeray, though disliking the man, who was a notorious tuft hunter, good naturedly offered him one of his cigars. The man accepted the cigar, but, not finding it to his liking, had the bad taste to say to Thackeray, “I say, Thackeray, you won’t mind my saying I don’t think much of this cigar?” Thackeray, no doubt irritated at the man’s ungraciousness and bearing in mind his tuft hunting predilections, quietly responded, “You ought to, my good fellow, for it was given me by a lord.” Instead, however, of detecting the irony, the dolt immediately attributed the remark to snobbishness on Thackeray’s part and to the end of his days went about declaring that “Thackeray had boasted that he had been given a cigar by a lord.”