Count Demidoff and the Young Attache.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2075, 24 October 1885, Page 6 (Supplement)

Count Demidoff and the Young Attache.

A You\« attache to ono of thG embisbias, no ,7 a cliplomast wai invited to dino with Coup.*, Dduiuloil. On tflie r-etnrn of th<i c:>mpmy to the saloon, groups Toro foimed >-ere and there, and, when tho coffee waa lunJcd round, Vtie young attaoh6, ciiiricd away by tho interest o! the conversion in which 1.0 was engaged, took a lump of sugar from tho sai^ai-basin with his fincrra TFlien the servant presented tho tr»y to him. Couut Djroidoff, indignant at the Lroich of etiquHto, signed to the lp.rq-iey to throw the retjc of tho contonte of the sugar bar in out of the .window. Tho lo^son wia a H«rer< cue, and fltiuck dumb those who wUnfisjil it. 15ut tha npiritod young offtnder, wlul^t understnndinq p^rfeo'lv tho insnU intended, preserved nn imperturbablo ctliunu*-:*. He hluwl) drained the contcius of hi>j cup, and VBliung diliberatoly tr the window, be fixed hid eyrs on M. JJt'midoiJ, and tosiod carekfoly into tho fitrt et the cup and saucer of priceIc^h Se;rea and the pold spoon. " I did aot know that »uoh was the UFag"," he skid to the count, and then ho recommenced his conversation with au air of perf'.ut iibi'ohuluuoi.'.