DvmING a discussion on manners the Duke of Morny defined a polite man as one "who listens with interest to things he knows all about when they are told him by a person who knows nothing about them."
Resemblance "This little stream," said the local inhabitant to the lady visitor, "disappears in the middle of the town and comes up again at the inn in the next village."
"Ah," remarked the lady, just like my hus~ band!"
Trained "I must say, Mrs. Brown," said the vicar genially, "I have never christened such a well-behaved baby as yours.
"Ah, well, you see," said Mrs, Brown, "we've been getting him used to it with a watering-can,"
Lonely He was not a brilliant conversationalist, and his dinner partner was distinctly bored.
"Something," he said, after a long pause, "came into my mind just now, but went away again, "Really," she said, coldly, "Perhaps it was lonely.
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