Excerpt from A Day With William Makepeace Thackeray

It was about half-past nine o'clock, on a mild October morning in 1858, when the big, broad-shouldered, upright figure of William Makepeace Thackeray entered the breakfast room of 36, Onslow Square, and was received with affectionate greetings by his two young daughters. His large kindly face, "full of humour and human sympathy, " beamed upon them across the well-furnished breakfast table, as he made good play with knife and fork, for Thackeray was never one to disdain the pleasures of eating and drinking. And indeed it needed more than "butterfly-food" to sustain that fine frame of six-foot-two, and that ceaseless fertility of brain-output which almost staggers one to contemplate. The great man was only forty-six, but appeared very much older, owing to the silvery whiteness of his short-cropped curly hair, and the spectacles through which his blue-grey eyes sent forth so keen a gaze.

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