THE RETORT COURTEOUS.
At a recent dance a young swell, who prides himself on his superior tastes and his hatred of that dreadful Observer, was introduced to a married lady, when he blurted out the remark, " I've been dying to be introduced to you in order to have an opportunity of complimenting you on the beauty of your dress." To which the lady replied, with the calm suavity of an iceberg, " Indeed ! Having done so, I trust you will be relieved ; but you must have been out very little, otherwise you would be aware that it is extremely vulgar to pass remarks on a lady's dress." This retort, however, ran off the irrepressible's shoulders "as smoothly as water from a duck's back. He parted from" the lady labouring under the fond delusion that he had made a favourable ,impression,.and he remarked confidentially to his friends, with the. air of a connoisseur in female beauty; that he considered her exceedingly nyumtoyutn. Truljy the insufferable conceit and ignorance df stjme of our colonial puppies is astounding. ,
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Observer, Volume 7, Issue 167, 24 November 1883, Page 3
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174THE RETORT COURTEOUS. Observer, Volume 7, Issue 167, 24 November 1883, Page 3
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