Show HIS CHANCE HAD GONE interruption deprived diner of wished for delicacy A certain woman in paris give periodical dinners at which assemble most of the best known wits and lit arati ot the day the rule ot the man slon Is that while one person dis courses no interruption whatever can be permitted it Is said that M renan once attend ed one of these dinners and being in excellent vein talked without a break during the whole repast toward the tend of the dinner a guest was heard to commence a sentence auf he was instantly silenced by the hostess ter they had left the table however she at once informed the extinguished individual that as renan had now finished his conversation she would gladly hear what he the guest had to say the guest modestly declined the hostess insisted I 1 am certain it was something ot consequence she said alas madame he answered it was indeed but it is now too late I 1 should have liked a little more of that iced pudding |