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Thackeray's Retort.

Thackeray disliked vanity in others and made it the subject of his ridicule and sarcasm. After long pleading his family induced him to sit for his portrait ; and Lawrence, the famous painter, gladly undertook the task. Soon after the picture was completed Thackeray chanced to be dining at his club, when a pompous officer of the Guards stopped beside the table and said, " Haw, Thackeray, old boy, I hear Lawrence has been painting yer portrait." "So he has," was the reply.

"Full length?" "No; full-length portraits are for soldiers, that we may see their spurs. But the other end of the man is the principal thing with authors," said Thackeray.

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Otago Witness, Issue 2006, 4 August 1892, Page 46

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Thackeray's Retort. Otago Witness, Issue 2006, 4 August 1892, Page 46

Thackeray's Retort. Otago Witness, Issue 2006, 4 August 1892, Page 46