Inamiability

Malkin, never perhaps the best tempered of men, was by this rendered a most ferocious cynic, and his inamiability was not softened by finding himself in the midst of military countrymen, whose habits, conversation, and amusements were every way uncongenial to his.

This is no place for the defence of a vein for satire, nor for insisting on its utility; but we may observe that caricature becomes necessary in all scenic representations; and, insomuch as the reprover oversteps the exact truth of occurrences, in order to heighten their interest, and to make the wished-for impression, his cutting inamiability is usually met with flat, direct negation by the party castigated.

We subjoin one other extract in which Mr. Cooley still further shows up his friends in Egypt. They were visiting the “Petrified Forest.” The scene must have been sufficiently amusing—provided it really did transpire, as Mr. Cooley informs us—but for all that, he might have spared the actors the publicity he thus gratuitously gives it, and spared his readers, moreover, the evidence of his own inamiability.

One has indigestion, scowls fiercely, tries to swallow large lumps of inamiability, and fears she is not sublime.

Now the question which I would ask each thoughtful reader to raise in his own heart is “Is this Justice or Injustice? Amiability or Inamiability?”