A GENTLEMAN AFTER ALL.
She was a perfect lady, and it was a business man's train. She carefully inspected many carriages, and then with her forty-nine parcels entered a smoking compartment. Four men in it continued to smoke. She coughed. She coughed again. Then in a shrill tone: "I should have thought," she said, " that some of the men here were gentlemen." "I beg your pardon," said her right-hand neighbour, and politely he offered his cigar-case.
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Marlborough Express, Volume XLI, Issue 226, 24 September 1907, Page 7
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76A GENTLEMAN AFTER ALL. Marlborough Express, Volume XLI, Issue 226, 24 September 1907, Page 7
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