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Show Our Awful Language. Yoars ago theie was lu Loudon a Russian diplomat, Ambassador Schou-vnloff, Schou-vnloff, who gieatly admired L'ngllsh women und who waa hcartilj annoyed whon he ofTended any ono of them I Whilo ho wns thero he learned Lng-llsh, Lng-llsh, nnd having heard ono famous English beauty say "Shut up!" to an-othor, an-othor, he Imagined It to bo a phrase of polite tigi content, such as "say no moio." !n this sense ho nddressed himself to tin Illustrious lndj tho next night nt dinner, to Hie lndj's eonster- I .nation, mid his own when lator he discovered dis-covered his mistake |