“POPPING THE QUESTION.”
“Many years after, I met him coming out of the hospital, and said,—
“‘You are looking very gay to-day, sir.’
“‘Yes,’ he replied, looking at his white vest and smart attire, ‘one of the girls was married this morning.’
“‘Indeed, sir? You should have given yourself a holiday on such an occasion, and not come down to lecture.’
“‘Nay,’ he replied, ‘egad, I came down to lecture the same day I was married myself.’”—Memoirs of Abernethy.
