A Levantine Wife.— Cela depend: if the man wants a doll to play with; a child who can barely read or write, and never does either if she can help it; who talks nonsense in three or four languages; who is not without a talent for cookery, and who dotes upon dress—for which sh > has not a talent—he may got on well enough with her. Unfortunately, in a very few years there comes to be so very much'of her ' —"Arabian Days and Nights."
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 614, 5 December 1863, Page 4
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