" Noblesse oblige: " Interlocutor: " Who's that woman who talks and laughs so loud and digs people in the ribs ? " Interlocutrix : " Oh, that's the Duchess of Bayswater; she was a Lady Gwendolen Beaumanior, you know." Interlocutor (with warmth) : "Ah, to be sure! That accounts for her high bredease, her aristocratic simplicity of manner, her natural and straightforward —"Intercutrix (putting on her oye-glasses) : " By the by, pardon me. I have unintentionally
misinformed you ; it's Mrs Jenkins. She's the -widow of an Alderman, and her father was a cheesemonger in the New Cut." Interlocutor : " Dear mo ! hem ! cr ! hem ! ha ! That quite alters the case. How sho goes on, to be sure! I wonder she's admitted into decent society." [N.B-—lt was the Duchess, after all !]
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3020, 1 March 1881, Page 3
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