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The doctor held a commission as surgeon in the army at the time of our last war with Great Britain. He was a man very decided in his manners, had a will of his own, and liked to have people respect it. In 1823 Mr. Jonathan Makepeace was elected.
Makepeace?" "I should say, Captain Passford, that she was making eighteen knots an hour. She is kicking up a big fuss about it; and I'll bet a long-nine cigar that she is doing her level best." "I don't believe she is doing any better than that," added Christy. "Make the course south south-west, Mr. Baskirk." "South south-west, sir," replied the executive officer.
By this contrast the one completes the other; and we may form an exact idea of English taste, by placing the portrait of William Makepeace Thackeray by the side of that of Charles Dickens. No wonder if in England a novelist writes satires. A gloomy and reflective man is impelled to it by his character; he is still further impelled by the surrounding manners.
Makepeace from the top-gallant forecastle; and the report was repeated till it reached the commander, though he had heard it before it was officially communicated to him. "That means more mischief." "Ready to stop and back her!" he cried through the speaking-tube to the chief engineer. "All ready, sir," replied Paul.
In these few sentences we have a sketch of William Makepeace Thackeray's life, from the time he finished his education up to the age of twenty-six, when Carlyle met him. He was the son of Richmond Thackeray, a collector in the service of the East India Company, and was born in Calcutta in 1811. Little Billy-man, as his mother called him, in after years could remember very little of India.
The commander went to his stateroom, and was soon fast asleep, from which he did not wake till eight o' clock in the morning. When he went on deck the ship was carrying all sail. The second lieutenant had the deck, and he asked him what speed the steamer was making. "The last log showed seventeen knots an hour," replied Mr. Makepeace.
Nature, in the midst of thy disorders, thou art still friendly to the scantiness thou hast created; with all thy great works about thee little hast thou left to give, either to the scythe or to the sickle, but to that little thou grantest safety and protection, and sweet are the dwellings which stand so sheltered! William Makepeace Thackeray On Being Found Out I put my hand into the sack.
Although the life of William Makepeace Thackeray was as little eventful as Dickens' own, their origin and circumstances were as different as their work. Dickens, as has been said, was born in distinctly the lower section of the middle class, and had, if any education, a very irregular one.
How much longer The Constitutional struggled on, I know not. That was the first time I ever saw or heard of William Makepeace Thackeray. The Howitts were somewhat consoled for their journalistic losses by the triumphant success of Rural Life in England.
Thee should'st have his place in our hearts and home. Would'st thee be content to bide, John?" John Randolph looked at his friends with shining eyes. "You have done me good for life!" he said, "but the world calls me, I must go. I mean to work my way through college, and be a physician, Mr. Makepeace." "So! so! Well, we mustn't stand in the way, Ruth. Thee'll make a good one, John.
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