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Show 71, Mlcnt IlaiU It waa Iba dislike that Kinglak had to hearing liU minio given out before a true d that led him to ,o early to part lea. lis was noicrnlljf the first KUeal, to arrlro sc a dinner. din-ner. Ho told the following story of hint-M'lt hint-M'lt very aiuuslnaly, llo hail been Invlteil todlnsnlth Mrs.Hartorls aoon after her marriage, and Ufuru he had made His acquaintance ac-quaintance of his Menus huabamL Wlien ho ritUred Ilia dining room o rrlllngiarly, as usual ho fuun I only his host, w ho, by tho wai, had tlio reputation of being n lery silent man Air. Htrtorla bowiil courteously, an 1 by a ware of tho hand In-dlcAtad In-dlcAtad that hla guest alionld be aeateil. Then the two aat on either aids of tho lire-place lire-place without speaking , "Afur a few moments," said Kinglako, "UUauio a duel uf kllencu Utweinua. 1 lio contest naa so equally maintained that neither uf lis sjiolia during llie ten minutes thatelaiiiH.it before Ilia lady uf tins Iioumi apneap.l nud InlriHhicid us." Jvlnglake was rather amusing mi thosub-Ject thosub-Ject ot Mlsa Marthieau'a deafness; ho remarked re-marked tint it was no drawhaik in Iter cumi, for alia talked aounceaslngty that alio norr had any oecosloii to hear what ullera aald. Tcmplo liar. |