diff --git a/tests/html_quotations_test.py b/tests/html_quotations_test.py
index c155cbb..03c66a8 100644
--- a/tests/html_quotations_test.py
+++ b/tests/html_quotations_test.py
@@ -380,3 +380,15 @@ def test_gmail_forwarded_msg():
 </div><br></div>"""
     extracted = quotations.extract_from_html(msg_body)
     eq_(RE_WHITESPACE.sub('', msg_body), RE_WHITESPACE.sub('', extracted))
+
+
+@patch.object(quotations, 'MAX_HTML_LEN', 1)
+def test_too_large_html():
+    msg_body = 'Reply' \
+               '<div class="gmail_quote">' \
+               '<div class="gmail_quote">On 11-Apr-2011, at 6:54 PM, Bob &lt;bob@example.com&gt; wrote:' \
+               '<div>Test</div>' \
+               '</div>' \
+               '</div>'
+    eq_(RE_WHITESPACE.sub('', msg_body),
+        RE_WHITESPACE.sub('', quotations.extract_from_html(msg_body)))