A SLIGHT MISTAKE.
A queer story, which the Italians would have characterised as being " well- 1 founded, if not true," comes frooi St. Petersburg. Lady Dufferin, Wife of the British Envoy, went to Court to be presented to the Czarina. On arrivinst at the Winter.Palace, she was shown into i an auterroom, as she thought, where an aged lady, whom she took to be mistress i of the ceremonies, was seated on the ottoman. The lady motioned her to a place beside her, and entered into conversation, but in a frigid Pvussian style. The handsome Irish woman, with the Hamiliton blood in her veins, had a little pride of her own, and thinking the Miiscovito waiting woman was rather patronising to the wife of an Ambassador, assumed .a !' stand-off" on her side. The ceremonious dame became more ceremonious, and almost haughty. At • length she asked: " Have you seen my daughter lately 1" " Pardon me, madame," said Lady Dufferin; " I fancy we. do not move in the same circle..'Pray, who may your daughter bef 'The answer.led up to. a tableau. "The ra{jsfßi of Edinburgh," said the. atatelw-r® : female, who was no other ' than tit "tijpress of Russia.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 436, 12 April 1880, Page 3
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196A SLIGHT MISTAKE. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 436, 12 April 1880, Page 3
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