HIS WAY OF LOOKING AT IT.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXII, Issue XII, 25 March 1899, Page 385

HIS WAY OF LOOKING AT IT.

Lord Blessington, the husband of tlie celebrated Countess of Blessington, had a horror of a draught. He was able, Count D’Orsay used to declare, to detect a current of air caused by the key being left, crossways in the keyhole of the door. He and his wife ami a youth were one day walking on the banks of the Thames. The boy, skipping backward and forward, went dangerously close to the edge of the bank. ‘Take care, take care!’ cried Lord Blessington, exhibiting a degree of solicitude most unusual where another person was concerned. ‘ For heaven’s sake, mind what you are about, boy, or you’ll certainly fall into the river.’

After two or three repetitions of his alarm in this fashion for tlie lad. Lady Blessington, losing patience, said: ‘Oh, let the boy alone; if lie does fall into the water lie swims like a fish.’ es, yes,’ said his lordship, in injured tones, ‘that’s all very well; lint what, about me? I shall catch my death of cold driving home in the carriage with him.’