Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 90, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1904 — Thackeray’s Satire. [ARTICLE]

Thackeray’s Satire.

Thackeray created quite erroneous Impressions of himself bj often indulging In Irony in the presence of people who were incapable of understanding it. One curious instance which he gave waa 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 his cigar case •t hopae, Thackeray, • though disliking Ihe man, who was a notorious tuft fainter, good caturedly offered him one of his cigars. The man accepted the cigar, but, not finding it to his liking, Md the bad taste to say to Thackeray, "I say, Thackeray, you won’t mind my faying I don’t think much of this cigar?” Thackeray, no doubt irritated at the man’s ifngraciousness 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 be had been given a cigar by a lord.”