Show SAW THE FEET OF CLAY charlotte bronte disturbed at appetite of her ideal As a child charlotte bronte bronto adored thackeray long before the author ot of vanity vanty it fair became known to her personally at last the two met and here Is thackeray rays a version of that memorable first meeting as related by one ot of his biographers big raphers behold a lion cometh up out of the north the girl quoted under neath her breath as thackeray en the drawing room some one repeated it to him good gracious said thackeray and I 1 am nothing but a poor ape sped ca men of an englishman ravenous tor for my dinner at dinner miss brenta was placed opposite thackeray by her own request and I 1 had said he the miserable humiliation of seeing her ideal of me disappear ng down my throat as e ev v grything ery thing went into my throat and nothing came out of it until at last as I 1 took my fifth potato she leaned across with clasped hands and tears in her eyes and breathed imploring ly oh mr thackeray dont don ti |