Excerpts from the Book 'Cupid Understudy':
... instead, for he was always crazy about horses. To see me trotting about in Paquin gowns and Doucet models, you'd never think I owed them to three ...
... to bother him in the least for him, that tender plant called Hope flowered perennially. And now he was bent on following another rainbow a rainbow ...
... He paid the thousand and odd dollars duty like a little man. We'd been saved a lot of bother, and nobody hates a lot of bother more than Dad. So ...
... had ever thought of Paris as my real home home was, where my heart was- -with Dad. I tried to make him understand how, happy I was to be with him, how ...
... presence, but I managed to murmur a weak Yes, indeed. Inside, though, I felt just as Dad did, and I was fearfully interested in Mr. Porter's account ...
... likes instinctively, I think. There is no doubt that Mr. Porter quite captivated Dad. You make me feel like a boy, he said, after listening to a ...
... so naturally, so sweetly. Dad was taking a nap after luncheon, and Blakely and I were sitting on the rear platform of our car, the last car in the train. ...
... and Dad, and I would move into it. Only, first, Blakely and I were going to San Bernardino on our wedding trip. Wasn't that sweet of Blakely. ...
... And no doubt she has heard that we're fearfully vulgar.. Well, we ain't, said Dad in a relieved voice and as for those plans of hers, I reckon ...
... going to throw your mother over and your mother ain't going to throw you over. I take it that all mothers are alike they love their sons. Naturally, ...
... hotel was all in a flutter the manager was beside himself with joy bell-boys danced jig steps in the corridors chambermaids went about ...
... The Choicest Flowers vied with one another in assurances of their distinguished approval. Indeed, they were all crazy about it-except the grand ...
... As a winter resort, Santa Barbara was, as usual, eclipsing Florida, etc.,. Blakely and I read the paper together we laughed over it till we cried. It ...
... to you at four o'clock. At that hour I shall be in Ventura, accompanied by the Grand Duke Alexander, and, as we are making the trip by automobile, ...
... has been here some time.. Dad beamed on us both. I told Blakely, Elizabeth couldn't marry him until you consented, he blundered on, but now I ...
... CONSIDERING, I agreed. And we must try to meet her half way. Yes, Dad.. No doubt she had her reasons for behaving as she did.. I'm sure ...
... then, instead of being a solemn, dignified affair, such as one might have expected, it was a tremendously jolly dinner-a little rowdy, perhaps, ...
... was concerned in this singularly up-to-date love affair . . . Mr. Porter's sister, the Countess de Bienville, is a well-known leader in exclusive Parisian ...
... consent, had thrown its ugly light on the sweet story of my love serving it up in yellow paragraphs for the benefit of the bootblack, the butcher, the ...
... Franklin a child created by Doctor Frankenstein with the help of Doctor Pretorius for the monster and his bride. The child is inventive similar like ...