The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-05-05

eor1ouBly meant 70 divert tno un1ortunate
and harassed woman.
well. because there are no more rents
from Ireland, hal there be'no more duts
a FEspdrtero! When did we have a better
dinner than as that day at Burnham Beeches
Wherc the Herr Graf cooked the potatoes,
and I came from Brighton with the game
Dba containing two grouse. two partridges,
threS ostrfohes, two oaasowaries, &c.-only
I forgot 1t. Cannot a contented mind be
happy with potatoes and q dgotS " . o
Il bet ID. that In six months you will be
more gay In Paris than at K~ensington, and
as for those young ladies, how nice it will
be to make them wait upon us old folks
there's a 0dIdnterie)-and then they shall
sit down afterwsrd TO GOLD potatoes
CONSOLATION o EXILE.
OF his own Ratires: d.
Every day 1 get m ore ashamed OF my
yellow cover. The world IL o great deal
better than some ~satirists have painted 1t
and l am forced to say 90 when folks
speak about you. What, Il there nobody
going to say an uniind word about Lady
~BlessingtonP' says / to myself, and indeed
I've not heard one. Nothing but esteem
for your kindness, nothing but sympathy
4 hAAA AO6oAN oAAN Vi OOOAbC y ~ D13tuA al
selfish regret that We should have lost a
house where 80 many people were made
80 happy.
"The way in which people speak about
you does credit to the world as wen as you
isn't 1t worth while almost to have q
touch Of mishap II it brings you. as indeed
It has brought you. such q deal Of friendly
gympathy?' o.
10 bt-n,lf,
Il believe the weld goes on being very
gay. / reel from dinner party TO dinner
party-I wallow in turtle and swim in claret
and champagne. 1 would like q cosey
dinner with you very much better II you
please.
won't we 60 and dine at restaurants
and have q notelone at Bercy when / come
TO Paris? Bedad, we will. ladies; and ]
hope I'll come soon.
But g railroad in your native country,
which ever ~oonfound, I mean the railroad
has swept down violently On me and almost
carried me of my legs-I'm as poor as Job,
but it's not that which makes me unhappy
~-th'-never mind what 1 say. One person
has about 10 many crosses as another. /
suppose
He refers to Count d'orsay and desires
to have 'one Of his great shakes OF the
hand The gay and improvident Count
was also a resident OF Queer Street, and
II Leslie Stephens Dictionary Of National
Biography is 10 be believed, was living
with Lady Blessington in Paris.
SEEKS A POST OFFICE JOB.
At one time, as can be seen above,
Thackeray himself was in very low water
a-o~oi,n- onl 18th The 1aantnO - Snon-
a poor author with influential friends
he turned an eye toward a Government
Job. Toward the end Of q long letter he
y
But now comes the real and most i'm
portant part OF this note. There riii be q
ridce pdcdni in the Posi- Office soon, that
Of Assistant Secretary, at present held by
Mr.. James Campbell. What a place for a
mar Of lettersl Think II Lord Clanricarde
would give it to me l would satisfy my
Employers and that my profession would
be pleased by hearing Of the appointment
Of one Of us. I wonder might I write to
him, or is there any kind person who would
advocate my cause?'
OF course Lady Blessington could not
mistake so broad a hint and herself wrote
the Minister on Thackeray's behalf. She
was very obiiging in such matters, secured
many men positions and we fancy must
at last have become somewhat Of q nuisance
10 her friends in power, Thackeray' also
wrote to Lord Clanricarde. II he got the
Office he promised TO order another game
pie to replace the one lost or forgotten at
Brighton. He says:
LOOKS FOR A REFUoE.
Lord Clanricarde wrote me to-day a SINH
lar letter to that which you have kindly
sent me, and I sent my servant OF express
TO Sandgate with a rejoinder which might
help. / thought; In my favor. But ! don't
think we shall order the pie yet. Nor indeed
does 1t much matter for a year or two.
Il lave got the bat In my hands, and
please God have strength for a good long
innings. Time and work will. however,
bowl out the best player. and it is then that
a refuge will be welcome and a comfortable
shelter under the tent-under the Marquee
l was going to say. upon my word and
honor, but l remembered 1t was a pun;
80" Whether I win or lose now is Of little
consequenoe-but what does please me is
the ready friendliness with which you lave
backed and Lord Clanricarde has received
my petition
Thackeray did not get the appointment, |
which for posterity may have been a lucky
thing. If he had it is likely the world would
have lost some Of his greatest novels. In
a postscript to the above letter he says:
Il think I should be sorry at this minute
to give up my old vagabond way Of life, and
my honest friend Pendennis, though he is
not born yet
That while hope still fingered the author
work Ia evident from his letter TO
Lady Blessington wherein he tells her that
1t has been finally decided not to give him
the place.
Fate has decided against US and we are
TO have the pie. Another man has
got 1t and deserves It. too. But what natter
Can't 1 make a pie Of my .ownP Let me
begin Pendennis this instant and cram 1t
with beef. pigeons. hard eggs and the most
delicious pepper and spice. We will make
it very good 80" / got a nice, kind
letter from Lord Clanricarde last night
announcing our fate. and that there is
In his department which can suit
me. Amen
WRITES OF oUR oRAPEs.