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Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2084, 24 June 1887, Page 1 (Supplement)

The Duchesse d’Avaray, an octogenarian, whojbas recently begumlifs in another, and, let us hope, a better world, is credited with this bf* mot : “ Confess how old you are,” she one day said to one of the most charming of French academicians. “ 1 am twenty-five three times repeated.” “Then my dear Immortal, I am the youngest,” replied theduchesse, “for I am only twenty—four times repeated.” Mrs Langtry is telling some interesting stories aboutjoaquin Miller. She describes in one of them a reception given in her honor in London, where he appeared in a red flannel shirt and top-boote, and strewed a pocketful of rose-leaves on the floor before her, B£9