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    seeing tie wife , and vice versa . This ob 8 ei * Y 9 $ icm lfy ywy frequently b 6 rne out by fact . I have myself of * tep Veip ^ r ^ Mf , that the bedded partner of the spendthrift is 8 L 8 » p i ^|^ ' j b parsimony as he to extravagance ; that a fat g $ ntl £ fqfra , Vjfc walk around whom is more than a day ' s exercise for an iiiyM has usually a spare rib ; and a glide mon lofty as a larifip-po § t ,

    has a wee wife who scarcely attains his elbow ; however , fig ! a witty Scot once said , she is tall enough if she reaqftes w * heart . There is no rule without an exception , and an excef tidjito the rule in question was presented by Mr . and Mrs , Clackmai ^ both gossips of the first order , if degrees in gosaipping tljere are . Till I knew this loquacious couple , I weakly imagined

    that gossipping was confined to the inferior grades of sery $ nt $ f to w&slier women , and such like , for whom I hoi A it to pe legitimate mental provender , seeing that circumstances &fX < education have denied them any other means for the exercjpg of thought , speech , and observation , with which , in comn ^ qn with other human beings , they are endowed . Woeful was the

    mistake I made ! Mr . Clackman was of the class denominated respectable , for he kept a chaise . Mr . Clackman " had writ a bbbk , " and Mrs . Clackman had read it , and SQjne scores of other books to boot , and yet Paul Pry was a mere apprentice compared to either of them , in the art of prying , and tbe taletit for detailing the results of their key-hole-and-cork-screw

    scierice . It is a sorrowful circumstance for the rest of the worl < J when the blended sympathies of the wedded are exhibited in congenial vices , even foibles . Where two noble spirits meet botn willing to work at the lever which is to raise hunianity out of the mire into which it is continuall y being sunk , it is good for their kind , and glorious for themselves ; but when a pair have ,

    for instance , a co-operative passion for pelting their fellowcreatures with mud or stones , heaven help the passengers of the thoroughfare in which these industrious duplicates dwell , to say nothing of their fellow-residents , who have the additional advantage of affording them a standing mark . Mrs . Clackman was , as women generally are , a sedentary

    personage ; but she sat at her window watching her heighhours with her greedy grey eyes doing duty with the intense sleeplessness of tlie sentinel , who knows that he shall be shot if he be found to slumber on his post . Mr . Clackman , like most men , was locomotive ; in fact the out-door partner of the firm—a sort of walking note of interrogation ; for a bet to any amount might have been risked that it w-ould be impossible for him to be a minute in any one ' s company without asking more than one pi ty ing ^' uefctittrii ' Wf him but catch the gTimpse of the con ' Mfcl !' ctf * m atmteuittftWe

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1836, page 173, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2655/page/45/