_Miss T._ Well, if you don't introduce me, I shall introduce myself, that's
all.

_Culch._ By all means. (_To himself._) Not if _I_ can prevent it, though!

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[Illustration: "I knock off quite a number of these while I'm abroad like
this."]

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[Illustration]

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ONLY FANCY!

We are in a position to give an emphatic contradiction to the rumour, put
forward with much assurance, that the King of SPAIN has entered upon
negotiations of a matrimonial character with reference to the grand-niece
of the Crown Prince of ROUMANIA. No one familiar with His Majesty's views
on the Triple Alliance, and his openly-expressed opinion with respect to
the occupation of Egypt, could for one moment give credence to a report so
intrinsically absurd.

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RYMUND has been imposed upon by one of his young men. Our friend, whose