LINK WITH THACKERAY.
KINDLINESS AND HUMOUR.
A correspondent writes to John o' London's Weekly:—"Few people can bo alivo now who saw and spoke with W. M. Thackeray. I did when a child of ten. His face was so attractive, beaming with kindliness and humour. Even the broken noso did not spoil it. lie stood at the door with my father watching the first of the ' Riflemen ' passing. It was tho ' Royal Irish,' with Maurice O'Connell, Daniel's son, as colonel. ' These two elderly men laughed at tho new forco as most peoplo did in those days, and they shouldered their unbrellas and marched up and down the hall for my amusement. No one would have thought that tho kindly, sunny faco hid such sorrow. Dickens was decidedly commonplace in appearance, but his faco was full of play and expression, which made him so good an actor."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20130, 15 December 1928, Page 7 (Supplement)
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145LINK WITH THACKERAY. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20130, 15 December 1928, Page 7 (Supplement)
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