Things One Could Wish to Have Expressed Otherwise. From English Society. Sketched by George du Maurier. Click on image to enlarge it.
Puzzled Hostess. “I beg your pardon, Lord Bovril, but will you tell me whether I ought to take your arm, or Prince Sulkytoff’s, or the Duke’s?”
Lord Bovril (Lord-Lieutenant of the County). — “Well—a—since you ask me, I must tell you that—a—as her Majesty’s representative, I am bound to claim the honor! But I hope you won’t for a moment suppose that I’m fool enough—a—to care personally one rap about that sort of thing!”
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Bibliography
English Society. Sketched by George du Maurier. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1897.
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