ARTFUL LIARS.
The Count Saint Germain, who appeared in Paris in the reign of Louis XV., and pretended to be possessed of the elixir of life, had a valet, says Household Words, who was almost as great as bis master in the art of lying. Once, when the Count was describing at a dinner party a circumstance which occurred at the court of * bis friend King Richard I of England,' be appealed to his servant for the confirmation of his story, who, with the greatest composure, replied : ‘You forget, sir, I have only been 500 years in your service.’ * True,’ said his master musingly, * it was a little before your lime.'
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XVIII, Issue XXIV, 12 June 1897, Page 747
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111ARTFUL LIARS. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XVIII, Issue XXIV, 12 June 1897, Page 747
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