AN AFTER-DINNER STORY.
This story greatly diverted ilr W. Clark Russell, and he tells it in "M.A.P.": — "A very rich but very ugly chevalier fell in love with a vtry beautiful but very imbecile young lady. His frknds remonstrated with him. "She is beautiful, it is true,' tlbty said; 'but she is a fool. You will grow sick of her in a month.' 'Now, heed mc, , answered the chevalier: 'I mean to marry; I shall have children, and thoae children will inherit my genius and tlieir mother's beauty.' Ho married, and what was the rct-ult? He had children, it is true; and the children inherited tlie motlKir"s imbecility aitd the father's ugliness." Which story in ita way is cs good as the militia captain's idea, of a coincidence : "lalk of coincidences!" lie cried ;
"sir. on the very day that Napoleon escaped from Elba I marched at the head of my regiment to Wormwood Scrubbs."
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Press, Volume LXI, Issue 11806, 2 February 1904, Page 5
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154AN AFTER-DINNER STORY. Press, Volume LXI, Issue 11806, 2 February 1904, Page 5
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