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The AGE OF CoaUETTE.-O all female
professions, that respecting age is generally
the bodest, because it is least easily confuted.
The wife Of merchant at Rouen, sojourning
at Paris with her son, was visiting in compa-
ny with some other persons, the old Marquis
of'E-, friend of the family on the mo.
theirs side. l


Madame--- is said TO be gifted with CO.
quety that we call intrepid il is all that re-
mains to mature females who have been young,
pretty, and much flattered.


"How old are you ?" suddenly inquired the
Marquis, drawn into the indiscretion by a re-
membrance of childhood.


"Twenty-elght years!" replied Madame


-, Without thinking.


"Bah !" answered the Marquis, with sur
prise and naivelte. "But how old is your son,
then 2" added he. turning toward the young
man.
4 "Oh." replied the malicious Normand, with
treacherous smile, 81 an, one gear older than
my mother" - .-ysrN y bas.


Terrible young man. J, ,1 1854