Taking One Too Much at One's Word . From English Society. Sketched by George du Maurier. Click on image to enlarge it.
Hostess: — “Won't you play us something, Mr. Spinks?”
Musical Amateur who thinks a good deal of himself, in spite of his modesty: — “Oh, don't ask me – you are all such first-rate performers here – and you play such good music, too.”
Hostess: — “Well, but we like a little variety, you know.”
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Bibliography
English Society. Sketched by George du Maurier. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1897.
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