THE PERFECT LADY.
Health is sometimes coarse and vulgar. A woman once asked her maid: “This person who called without leaving her name—was she a lady?” "Oh, yes, madam—a perfect lady,” the maid replied. "Her hair was dyed tha loveliest gold, she was covered with pearls and diamonds, and site smelt of Egyptian cigarettes and champagne, madam.”
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLVIII, Issue 4, 24 July 1912, Page 72
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57THE PERFECT LADY. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLVIII, Issue 4, 24 July 1912, Page 72
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