Few people posses the kindly sense of the French abbe mentioned in the memoirs of Madame Vig'ee de Brun, the celebrated portrait-painter of the last century. This gentleman was, unfortunately, extremely deformed, and, playing at cards with him, Madame de Brun was so struck by his strange figure the she inadvertently hummed a few bars of a tune called "The Hunchback." Immediately recollecting herself, she stopt in confusion, whereupon the abbe turned to her with a kindly smile, "My dear madame, continue your tune. I assure you it does not offend me in the least; the association is so natural a one, that I believe it would have occurred to me in your place."-- London Evening Standard.
