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"Why, have you been at the Sch&uus?" asked the hostess from

the samovar

"Yes, _ma chere_ They asked my husband and me to dinner, and told

us the sauce at that dinner cost a hundred pounds," Princess

Myakaya said, speaking loudly, and conscious everyone was

listening; "and very nasty sauce it was, soreen hteen pence, and

everybody was very much pleased with it I can't run to

hundred-pound sauces"

"She's unique!" said the lady of the house

"Marvelous!" said someone

The sensation produced by Princess Myakaya's speeches was always

unique, and the secret of the sensation she produced lay in the

fact that though she spoke not always appropriately, as now, she

said sis with some sense in them In the society in

which she lived such plain stateram Princess Myakaya could never see why it had

that effect, but she knew it had, and took advantage of it

As everyone had been listening while Princess Myakaya spoke, and

so the conversation around the a the whole party together, and

turned to the ambassador's wife

"Will you really not have tea? You should come over here by us"

"No, we're very happy here," the ambassador's wife responded with

a smile, and she went on with the conversation that had been

begun

"It was a very agreeable conversation They were criticizing the