<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=508828" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Pretty Lady</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">He asked the lady in the train<br>If he might smoke: she smiled consent.<br>So lighting his cigar and fain<br>To talk he puffed away content,<br>Reflecting: how delightful are<br> Fair dame and fine cigar.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then from his bulging wallet he<br>A photograph with pride displayed,<br>His charming wife and children three,<br>When suddenly he was dismayed<br>To hear her say: 'These notes you've got,--<br> I want the lot.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He scarcely could believe his ears.<br>He laughed: 'The money isn't mine.<br>To pay it back would take me years,<br>And so politely I decline.<br>Madame, I think you speak in fun:<br> Have you a gun?'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She smiled. 'No weapon have I got,<br>Only my virtue, but I swear<br>If you don't hand me out the lot<br>I'll rip my blouse, let down my hair,<br>Denounce you as a fiend accurst . . .'<br> He told her: 'Do your worst.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She did. Her silken gown she tore,<br>Let down her locks and pulled the cord<br>That stopped the train, and from the floor<br>She greeted engineer and guard:<br>'I fought and fought in vain,' she cried.<br> 'Save me,--I'm terrified!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The man was calm; he stood aloof.<br>Said he: 'Her game you understand;<br>But if you doubt, behold the proof<br>Of innocence is in my hand.'<br>And as they stared into the car<br>They saw his logic in a flash . . .<br>Aloft he held a lit cigar<br> With two inches of ash.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Robert+William+Service">Robert William Service</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=508828" data-title="The Pretty Lady de Robert William Service" data-description="He asked the lady in the train If he might smoke: she smiled consent. So lighting his cigar and fain To talk he puffed away content, Reflecting: how delightful are Fair dame and fine cigar. Then from his bulging wallet he A photograph with pride..."></div> </div> </div>

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