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REFINEMENTS OF MODERN SPEECH.

SCENE - A Drawing-room in "Passionate Brompton."

Fair Aesthetic (suddenly, and in deepest tones, to Smith, who has just been introduced to take her in to Dinner). "ARE YOU INTENSE?"

Punch, June 14, 1879