We have to get my husband to the sanctifying grace or the grace to my husband. Like Dickens's beefsteak, he "must be humored, not drove." After 27 years of marriage, I know just about how far and fast he can be led. Eventually I will get him into range, and the Good Lord will do the rest.
LOL. But what is "Dicken's beefsteak"? This reference doesn't ring a bell.
39 posted on 02/28/2004 8:30:02 PM PST by Maximilian
Martin Chuzzlewit, Chapter 39. The butcher who sold a steak to Tom Pinch: "When he saw Tom putting the cabbage-leaf into his pocket awkwardly, he begged to he allowed to do it for him; 'for meat,' he said with some emotion, 'must be humored, not drove'"
Only reason I know is that Irma Rombauer quoted it in an older edition of her classic cookbook The Joy of Cooking.
45 posted on 02/28/2004 8:36:50 PM PST by AnAmericanMother
(. . . sed, ut scis, quis homines huiusmodi intellegere potest?. . .)