Lab
Library
Journal
Shop
Sign in
to keep
Share image
1
1036
Enquire within upon everything
·
Robert Kemp Philp
171
Few
things
point
so
directly
to
the
want
of
cultivation
as
the
misuse
of
the
letter
H
by
persons
in
conversation.
We
hesitate
to
assert
that
this
common
defect
in
speaking
indicates
the
absence
of
education--for,
to
our
surprise,
we
have
heard
even
educated
persons
frequently
commit
this
common,
and
vulgar
error.
Now,
for
the
purpose
of
assisting
those
who
desire
to
improve
their
mode
of
speaking,
we
intend
to
tell
a
little
story
about
our
next
door
neighbour,
Mrs.
Alexander
Hitching,--or,
as
she
frequently
styled
herself,
with
an
air
of
conscious
dignity,
Mrs.
HALEXANDER
'ITCHING.
Her
husband
was
a
post-captain
of
some
distinction,
seldom
at
home,
and
therefore
Mrs.
A.
H.
(or,
as
she
rendered
it,
Mrs.
H.
I.)
felt
it
incumbent
upon
herself
to
represent
her
own
dignity,
and
the
dignity
of
her
husband
also.
Well,
this
Mrs.
Hitching
was
a
next-door
neighbour
of
ours--a
most
agreeable
lady
in
many
respects,
middle
aged,
good
looking,
uncommonly
fond
of
talking,
of
active,
almost
of
fussy
habits,
very
good
tempered
and
good
natured,
but
with
a
most
unpleasant
habit
of
misusing
the
letter
H
to
such
a
degree
that
our
sensitive
nerves
have
often
been
shocked
when
in
her
society.
But
we
must
beg
the
reader,
if
Mrs.
H.
should
be
an
acquaintance
of
his,
not
to
breathe
a
word
of
our
having
written
this
account
of
her--or
there
would
be
no
limit
to
her
"hindignation."
And,
as
her
family
is
very
numerous,
it
will
be
necessary
to
keep
the
matter
as
quiet
as
can
be,
for
it
will
scarcely
be
possible
to
mention
the
subject
anywhere,
without
"'orrifying"
some
of
her
relations,
and
instigating
them
to
make
Mrs.
H.
become
our
"henemy,"
instead
of
remaining,
as
we
wish
her
to
do,
our
intimate
friend.
Marker
Marker
Fine marker
White-out
Fine white-out
Circle
Paint
Unmarker
Hand
Scalpel
Dice
Sieve
Purify
Undo
Redo
Start over
