Unlucky Compliments
Shy but Susceptible Youth: 'Er Could You Tell Me Who That Young Lady Is - Sketching?'
Affable Stranger: 'She Has the Misfortune to Be My Wife!'
Shy but Susceptible One (Desperately Anxious to Please, and Losing All Presence of Mind): -Oh - the Misfortune's Entirely Yours, I'm Sure!'
George Du Maurier (1834-1896)
SIGNED, INSCRIBED WITH TITLE AND DATED 'HAMPSTEAD AUG 92' INSCRIBED '1/2 P PUNCH' BELOW MOUNT ILLUSTRATED: PUNCH, 3 SEPTEMBER 1892, PAGE 102