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Beside his two great tusks, he hath on euery side of his mouth foure teeth, wherewith he eateth and grindeth his meate: either of these teeth are almost a span in length, as they grow along in the iaw, and are about two inches in height, and almost as much in thicknesse.
Thicknesse was always good, kind, unselfish and disinterested; while Gainsborough was ungrateful, procrastinating, absurd and malicious this according to Thicknesse, who was on the spot and knew. Well, I guess so!
Thicknesse was sincere and serious, and surely was not wholly bad even Mephisto is not bad all of the time. Mrs. Gainsborough once said she would prefer Mephisto to Thicknesse, because Mephisto had a sense of humor.
"Do you want to go to jail?" asked Mrs. Gainsborough of her husband when he proposed signing the lease. The worldly Thicknesse proposed that they should take this house at fifty pounds a year, or else take another at one hundred fifty at his expense. They decided to risk it at the rate of fifty pounds a year for a few months, and were duly settled.
Thomas Tobyson of Tottenwood in Henri de Regnier's La Double Maitresse. For the most part the manners and customs of this type of man are only known to us by hearsay which we may refuse to credit. But about Thicknesse there is no manner of doubt; he has written himself down; he is the veridic and positive embodiment of the type. That is his supreme distinction.
Thicknesse, throughout the book, thrusts himself into the breach and poses as the Injured One. On reading "the work" it is hard to believe it was written in sober, serious earnest it contains such an intolerable deal of Thicknesse and so little of Gainsborough. The Mother Gamp flavor is upon every page. Andrew Lang might have written it to show the literary style of a disgruntled dead author.
The conversation sometimes turns upon literature, Mr. Bolton being a literary character, and always upon such news of the day as is exclusively possessed by that talented individual. ‘Can you lend me a ten-pound note till Christmas?’ inquired the hairdresser of the stomach. ‘Where’s your security, Mr. Clip?’ ‘My stock in trade,—there’s enough of it, I’m thinking, Mr. Thicknesse.
That pipe is of a red stone, as bigge as a fist and as long as a hand. The small reede as long as five foot, in breadth, and of the thicknesse of a thumb.
He took charge of the studio, looked after the visitors, explaining this and that, telling how he had discovered the artist and rescued him from obscurity, giving scraps of his history, and presenting little impromptu lectures on art as he had found it. The fussy Thicknesse used to be funny to Mr. and Mrs. Gainsborough, but now he had developed into a nuisance.
So in a moment of passion they shake the dust of England off their feet to rush abroad, where, also, however, though they are far too intelligent to be inappreciative of what they find, they meet even more to arouse their disgust and indignation, and in the end they usually come back to England. So it was with Philip Thicknesse.
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