_"Not your fault, indeed! Mine for having so long a train;" i.e.,_
"Awkward toad!"

_"Where did you get that lovely dress, dear?" i.e.,_ "That I may avoid
that dress-maker."

THEATRICAL.

_"Whose talents have been seen to better advantage:" i.e.,_ "A cruel
bad actor--but can't say so."

_"When the nervousness of a first night has been got over;" i.e.,_
"Never saw a worse play--but it may catch on."

_"The Author's modesty prevented him from responding to loud calls;"
i.e.,_ "Timid youth, probably. Foresaw brickbats."

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"BRAVO, TORO!"--M. CONSTANS will not allow Bull-fighting in Paris,
even for "the benefit of the Martinique sufferers." Quite right! But
if he would only discourage "Bull-fighting" in Egypt--the sort of
"Bull-fighting" desired by Chauvinist M. DELONCLE--he would do good
service to the land of the Pyramids, to the poor fellah, and to
civilisation.

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NOTE FROM BRIGHTON.--The exterior of the recently-opened Hôtel