GALLANT.
A really polite Frenchman can be complimentary in the face of unkind remarks. Such a man, who had been bestowing upon a lady many compliments, asked her why she kept a large and apparently savage dog which had just entered the room. •I bought him only yesterday,* she answered, Hippant’y, ‘and I’m going to keep him in my front hall to eat up my admirers ’ ‘Ah, ze poor animal!* exclaimed the Frenchman; *to die of indigestion !’
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XV, Issue XXII, 30 November 1895, Page 693
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77GALLANT. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XV, Issue XXII, 30 November 1895, Page 693
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