Gorgeous Fabrics, Embroideries, Pottery, Metal And Woodwork, And Along With These Products Of An Ancient Civilisation, Others Of Rude Or Primitive Tribes, Quaint Headgear And Plumes, Strings And Ropes Of Beads, Worn As Garments By People Who Run Wild In Woods, With Arrows, Spears And Other Weapons.

These last were arranged in the form of a wheel over the entrance, with the bleached and polished skull of an orang-utan in the centre.

It was a very perfect skull, with all the formidable teeth intact and highly effective.

She lived happily for some months in her apartment and was very popular in Parisian society and visited by many distinguished people, who all greatly admired her Eastern decorations, especially the skull, before which they would stand expressing their delight with fervent exclamations.

One day when on a visit at a friend's house, her host brought up a gentleman who wished to be introduced to her. He made himself extremely agreeable, but was a little too effusive with his complimentary speeches, telling her how delighted he was to meet her, and how much he had been wishing for that honour.

After hearing this two or three times she turned on him and asked him in the directest way why he had wished to see her so very much; then, anticipating that the answer would be that it was because of what he had heard of her charm, her linguistic, musical and various other accomplishments, and so on, she made ready to administer a nice little snub, when he made this very unexpected reply:

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