A Paris correspondent says ho overheard the following dialogue at a recent ball. "' Have you seen Madame Gr. ?" asked one lady of another. "Since sha has embraced M. Banting's religion she had diminished at least one half." " Then she must be charming," said Mdlle. X., with naivete. "Not at all/ 7 - rejoined the first speaker; she looks liko a cathedral that has losti all 1 its faints! and : preserved all the niches .from which they were taken." ■ ■ ; ' :!,, ' , " '■ ■
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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 441, 12 October 1880, Page 2
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77Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 441, 12 October 1880, Page 2
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