A POOR Relation -- is t irrelevant ture, -- a piece of impertinent correspondency,an odious approximation, -- a ing conscience, -- a preposterous side of your prosperity, -- an unually recurring mortification, -- a drain on your purse, -- a more intolerable dun upon your pride, -- a drao your rising, -- a stain in your blood, -- a blot on your scutc in your garment, -- a deat your banquet, -- Agat, -- a Mordecai in your gate, -- a Lazarus at your door, -- a lion in your patment, -- a mote in your eye, -- a triumpo your enemy, an apology to your friends, -- t needful, -- t, -- t.
tellet;t is Mr. ----.quot; A rap, bety and respect; t demands, and, at time, seems to despair of entertainment. eret o you to s back again. dinner time -- o stay. ers t a side table. ;My dear, pero-day.quot; unate to umbled upon one. fisurbot being small -- yet suffereto uned into a slice against resolution. icket -- yet y t, if a stranger press it upon o ts, civil enougo s t;t; Every one speculatetion; and t part take o be a tide-er. ian name, to imply t oo familiar by you ; aken for aketate ts a client. try tenant, inasmuc -- yet `tis odds, from your guests take o make one at t table; refusety, and -- resents being left out. o go for a coacs t go. s your grandfat in some mean, and quite unimportant anecdote of -- t quite so flouris; in seeing it no; situations, to institute of congratulation, ure; and insults you ion of your ains. t s, after all, table about tea-kettle -- convenience in o your lady if it is not so. Inquiret; and did not knoill lately, t suc of ts perverse; alk a trouble; ay pertinacious; and ately as possible, and feel fairly rid of two nuisances.
t -- a is female Poor Relation. You may do sometolerably your indigent sive is ;,quot; you may say, quot;and affects to go tances are better take to er at your table, and truly ; But in tions of female poverty trut out s;Sed to t does s t; Sy, your imes out of ten, at least, tle tly predominates. S provokingly entatiously sensible to y. o imes -- aliquando sufflaminandus erat -- but t dinner, and so be er tlemen. Mr. ---- requests taking ates bet and Madeira, and c Sir; and insists on not troubling o e. tronizes akes upon o correct aken the piano for a harpsichord.
Ric, Esq., in table instance of tages, to y constituting a claim to acquaintance, may subject t of a gentleman. A little foolis is bet estate. ars are perpetually crossed by t maternity of an old so recompense ies, and float surface, under emperament. I kne in real life, anding at Cs, a fine classic, and a yout oo muc its actuality of t sort o keep inferiors at a distance; it only sougo ion from itself. It carried as far as it could go, infringing upon t respect, opic. Many a quarrel allness made us more obnoxious to observation in t too elude notice, ogetreets of tropolis. ---- , sore ions, to Oxford, ness of a scing roduction, ion to ty. tors goo imer must ; and in y. In tudent sion. er among books, ; and studies, t ask no questions of a yout beyond udious pursuits o abstract. a e broke out against y. to exercised ter at N----, near Oxford. A supposed interest o take up city, alked of. From t moment I read in tenance of termination ore s for ever. to a person unacquainted ies, tance betorading part of tter especially -- is carried to an excess t of ----`s fatrically ttle, busy, cringing tradesman, bore tive to trances of to ously ducking. Sucate of t last. ---- must ced. turdy moralist, of ties as ion; estimate truggle. I stood afternoon I ever sa reet to t ful, and more reconciled. I ventured to rally ter mood -- upon a representation of tist Evangelist, of frame over oken of prosperity, or badge of gratitude to . ---- looked up at tan, quot;kne; A letter on able t morning, announced t ed a commission in a regiment about to embark for Portugal. ian.
I do not knoing al so eminently painful; but tionse ter for tragic as ions, t it is difficult to keep t distinct blending. t impressions ainly not attended ing, in t my fatable (no very splendid one) o be found, every Saturday, terious figure of an aged gentleman, clot black, of a sad yet comely appearance. ment y; to make a noise in tle inclination to o admire in silence., A particular elboo o be violated. A peculiar sort of s pudding, of Lincoln, and t . t I kneo be a place o ies and passions. A sort of melanced o go about in an eternal suit of mourning; a captive -- a stately being, let out of tourdays. Often temerity of my fate of an ual general respect oo stand up against , touc city of Lincoln are divided (as most of my readers knoinction formed an obvious division bet togeternal residence cause of ility in tiuses. My fataineer; and ill maintain ty, in skill and ion) over ty emporary ain. Many and opic -- tleman imes almost to t (so I expected) of actual ilities. But my fato insist upon advantages, generally contrived to turn tion upon some adroit by-commendation of ter; in t on a conciliating level, and lay doant differences. Once only I saleman really ruffled, and I remembered t came over me: quot;Per; o take anote of tioned as tant of s. ance amounting to rigour -- simes press civility out of season -- uttered tion -- quot; Do take anot, for you do not get pudding every day.quot; tleman said not time -- but ook occasion in t ervened beto utter e it -- quot;oman, you are superannuated.quot; Jo did not survive long, after ting of t; but o assure me t peace ually restored! and, if I remember arigly substituted in t (Anno 1781) able independence; and een soire after t o bury o any man for a sixpence. tion.