RATHER HOT.
At a dinner party there were two sisters present: one a widow who had just emerged from her weeds; the other not long married, whose husband ha<l lately gone out to India for a short term. A young barrister was deputed to take the widow down to dinner. Unfortunately he was under the impression. that his partner was the married lad.v whose husband had just arrived in India. The conversation between them commenced by the lady’s remarking how hot it was. “Yes, it is very hot,” returned the young barrister. Then a happy thought suggested itself to him, and he added, with a cheerful smile,’“But not so hot as the place to which your husband has gone.” The look with which the widow answered this “happy thought” will haunt that young barrister till the day of hia death.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXIII, Issue XII, 16 September 1899, Page 490
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140RATHER HOT. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXIII, Issue XII, 16 September 1899, Page 490
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