Smith begs to inform Mrs. Brown, that she despises her
insinuations, and to say, that she will put as many _t_'s as she
pleases in her _teapot_.
"P.S.--Mrs. S. expects to be paid 10s. for the injured article."
Again the teapot was sent upstairs, with the following reply from Mrs.
Brown:--
"Mrs. Brown thinks Mrs. Smith a low creature.
"P.S.--Mrs. B. won't pay a farthing."
The correspondence terminated here, the German-silver teapot remaining in
_statu quo_ on the lobby window, between the territories of the hostile
powers; and there it might have remained until the present moment, if Mrs.
Brown had not declared, in an audible voice, at the foot of the stairs,
that Mrs. Smith was acting under the influence of gin, which reaching the
ears of the calumniated lady, she rushed down to the landing-place, and
seizing the teapot, discharged it at Mrs. Brown's head, which it
fortunately missed, but totally annihilated a plaster figure of Napoleon,
which stood in the hall, and materially damaged its own spout. Mrs. Brown,
being wholly unsupported at the time, retired hastily within the defences
of her own apartments, which Mrs.
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