AN EXCEPTION
' Like everyone else, I have always found Englishmen very reserved,' remarked a French novelist. * Once I thougilit I had found an exception. I was 'travelling through the South of France by rail, and had for a companion an English stranger, who talked steadily to -me for an hour and a half in very bad French. "When we parted I said :— c " I am very happy to have had this opportunity of exchanging my impressions with an, affable gentleman — the more -so from the fact that, as a general thing, your countrymen are not at all communicative." ' " Oh," £aid' my fellow-traveller, rather confused, and turning, red, " I only talked, you know, because it gave me a chance to practise my French." '
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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 48, 28 November 1907, Page 37
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122AN EXCEPTION New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 48, 28 November 1907, Page 37
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