AN ACCOMPLISHED WIFE.
‘ Ah, old fellow,’ said a Texas gentleman to another on the street, ‘so you are married at last. Allow me to congratulate you, for I hear you have an excellent and accomplished wife.’ * I have, indeed,’ was the reply, ‘ she is accomplished. Why, sir, she is perfectly at home in literature, at home in music, at home in art, at home in science—in short, at home everywhere except ’ ‘ Except what!’ ‘ Except at home. ’
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume VIII, Issue 42, 17 October 1891, Page 500
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76AN ACCOMPLISHED WIFE. New Zealand Graphic, Volume VIII, Issue 42, 17 October 1891, Page 500
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