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Miss Van Guyem : • Delighted to meet you, Lord Dulstaire.’ Lord Dulstaire : ‘ Chahmed, I’m shuah.’ Miss Van Guyem : ‘So sorry to miss your call the other day !’ Lord Dulstaire: ‘Chahmed— l mean—dweadfully sowry.’ Miss Van Guyem : ‘ But I was actually grieved Lord Dulstaire : ‘ Chahming of you to —ah—ah—’ Miss Van Guyem : •If I felt it was an admissible question, I should dearly love to ask you how you liked New Zealand.’ Lord Dulstaire : ‘ Chahmed—l assure yuh.’ Miss Van Guyem: ‘I thought you’d say so. And you went to Rotorua, I believe. Of course you were—’ Lord Dulstaire : ‘ Vewy much chahmed, weally.’ Miss Van Guyem : ‘ That just expresses it. But if you stay through the summer you must go to the Sounds. It will charm you, I know, to enjoy the charming scenery; and the atmosphere is such a charm that you will really be—’ Lord Dulstaire : * Chahmed, I’m shuah !’
Mrs Frontpue (to minister’s wife) : ‘ Why is your hue. band always asking for money, money, money ?’ Minister's Wife (wearily): ‘I presume it’s because he never gets any,’
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XI, Issue 44, 4 November 1893, Page 384
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177HIS VOCABULARY. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XI, Issue 44, 4 November 1893, Page 384
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