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Show Declining With Thanks. A young woman prominent in the social set of an Ohio town tells of a young man there who had not familiarized famil-iarized himself with the forms of polite po-lite correspondence to the fullest extent. ex-tent. When, on one occasion, he found it necessary to decline an invitation, he did so in the following terms: Mr. Henry Blank declines with pleasure Mrs. Wood's invitation for the nineteenth, and thanks her extremely ex-tremely for having given him the opportunity op-portunity of doing so. Lippincott's Magazine. |