SUPPER INCIDENT AT THE WINTER PALACE.
At our repast—-which of course, would have satisfied Elagablus—was a gentleman in ordinary, dress clothes Suddenly, at the close of the repast, as the Imperial family rose from their seats, the flunkeys behind us simultaneously dragged away our chairs without warning, an operation frhich made us all promptly , retire to a distance from the table. Then was visible a sight unusual in palatial rooms. In our front 1 saw the party in the tail coat and short trousers with nothing on his enormous feet but a pair of coarse white cotton socks. A titter went round when our friend calmly stooped under the supper table and pulling out a pair of evening shoes, brought them back with the remark, “Well ! they were darned tight and hurt my corns so I kicked them off and forgot to put them on again when we got up from our seats !” From “Reminiscences of a Diplomatist,” in the “Cornhill Magazine” for November.
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Northland Age, Volume 3, Issue 6, 11 September 1906, Page 8
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