AN IMPERIAL PHYSIOGNOMIST.
'iN i8o(5 the Austrian Court sent the Mar' guis de Pouilly on a mission to Morocco. The ambassador, an old naval officer, was larhe, and in other respects unprepossessing in his outward appearance. 'Lhe Emperor of Morocco received him in solemn audience and said to him: "You must be a veryclever man." . . • The Marquis was effusive in his thanks, | and assured his exotic Majesty that he was (. at a loss to know how he came to deserve so flattering a compliment. To which the Sultan made answer: "You have such a horrid face, that if you were not a very clever man, your master surely would not have chosen you for an ambassador.'
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Manawatu Herald, Volume III, 28 April 1891, Page 4
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116AN IMPERIAL PHYSIOGNOMIST. Manawatu Herald, Volume III, 28 April 1891, Page 4
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