A Perfect Gentleman.
"Wherever did you get that dreadful black eye, Mr-. Hawkins?" said the London East End district visitor, as she seated herself on the extreme edge of the least dirty chair in the room.
"It were the result of a trif.in' haltercation wlv my "usband, mum," replied the lady of the hoase.
"Dear, dear, dear ?" cried th© visitor, holding up her hands in horror ; "how dreadful '. What a ba-d, wicked man your husband must be !"
"Xot at all, mum," retoited the other, with dignity; "'Awkins is "asty, but 'cc's a puffect gentleman at 'cart. I can hessure you that after 'ee'd giv' me this black eye 'c sat 'olding a cold fryin"-pan to it for hupwards of a hower, a-tryin' to deduce the swellin'. A little hattention like that gooe a long w'y towards makin* marri'd life 'appy, mum, as I dessay you've fahnd yourself."
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Otago Witness, Issue 2663, 29 March 1905, Page 78
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147A Perfect Gentleman. Otago Witness, Issue 2663, 29 March 1905, Page 78
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