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A SLIGHT MISAPPREHENSION.
Mrs. Partington was at Thackeray's last lecture, —
Mr. T. had kindly sent her a card, admitting one, — and,
forgetting the theme of the lecture, she leaned over the
seat and asked the gentleman before her what the subject
was.
“Goldsmith and Sterne, mem,” was the reply; “but
he is on Sterne, first.”
Mrs. Partington blushed. There was evidently a
question agitating her mind as to whether she should
tarry and hear a lecture from a person so ridiculously
postured as Mr. T. must appear. She looked around,
meditating a retreat; but the avenue to escape was blocked
up, and she thought she might as well stay it out.
She watched tremblingly for Mr. Thackeray, and was
much relieved by seeing him standing perpendicularly
before her. She thought she must have mistaken the
meaning of her informant.
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