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Excerpt from The Star-Gazers
Papa had thought she might want me to spend the winter with her in New York as he has to go out to the States on business and can't take me to Montana with him. But not she! I am a failure, you understand - a matrimonial failure. Grandmama, who never troubles to use diplo matic evasions, made that perfectly clear to me in her letter. The worst of it, in her eyes apparently, is the fact that the little Van Antwerp girl - the Van Antwerps have a cottage at Newport next to grandmama's - has just caught the Earl of Strath ore. She's awfully plain, and grandmama says that with my looks I ought to have been able to land a baronet, at least! Like Tommy Moore, I fear grandmama loves a lord.
At any rate there are a few things to be thank ful for! Our engagement has not been broken by a vulgar row of any sort. The obstacle to our happiness has all the dignity of an international question - a question that my father found no difficulty in answering with an emphatic no. If it hadn't been so tragic it must have been rather funny to hear him lecturing Lord Robert's pom pous legal representative, Mr. Abingdon, K. C.
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