Refinements of Modern Speech

George du Maurier

Punch 76 (14 June 1879): 270

Scene– a drawing room in “Passionate Brompton”.

Fair Æsthetic (suddenly, and in deepest tones, to Smith, who has just been introduced to take her to dinner) Are you Intense?”

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