"Monsieur le Comte."

Foreign ladies of rank should be addressed by their title and surname,
and not by their title only, and the prefix "Von" should be omitted; but
in the case of a French or Italian title the "de" or "de la" before the
surname should on no account be omitted.

When Englishmen are extremely intimate with foreigners of rank they
would, in conversation, probably address them by their surnames; but
only thorough intimacy and friendship warrants this familiarity.

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=As regards addressing the Clergy=, an archbishop should be addressed
colloquially as "Archbishop" by the upper classes, and as "Your Grace"
by the clergy and all other classes.

A bishop should be addressed colloquially as "Bishop" by the upper
classes, and as "My Lord" by the clergy and all other classes.

A dean should be styled "Dean Blank" or "Dean," by the upper classes,
and as "Mr. Dean" by the clergy.

An archdeacon should be addressed as "Archdeacon Blank," and a canon as
"Canon Blank."

The wives of archbishops, bishops, and deans should be respectively
addressed as "Mrs. A.," "Mrs. B.," or "Mrs. C." They take no title from
the spiritual rank of their husbands.

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=Officers in the Army= should be respectively addressed as "General A.,"
"Colonel B.," "Major C.," or "Captain D.," and not as "General,"
"Colonel," or "Major," except by their very intimate friends.

The wives of officers should be addressed as "Mrs. A.," "Mrs. B.," "Mrs.
C.," or "Mrs. D." They should never be addressed as "Mrs. General A.,"
"Mrs. Colonel B.," "Mrs. Major C.," or "Mrs. Captain D."

A lady should not address her husband colloquially by his surname only,
as "Jones," "Brown," or by whatever his surname might be, or speak of
him without the prefix of "Mr."

The usual rule is for a wife to speak of her husband as "Mr. Brown," or
"My husband," except to intimate friends, when the christian name only
is frequently used, and to address him by his christian name only.

A wife should not address her husband by the initial letter of his
surname, as "Mr. B." or "Mr. P."; neither should a husband address his
wife by the initial letter of his surname.

When intimate friends address each other by the initial letter of their
names it is by way of pleasantry only, and such cases, of course, do not
come within the rules of etiquette.

Peeresses frequently address their husband