He was brave and he
was most obliging to undertake a speech of any character, and now his
payment seems to be in the customary false, ill-natured coin.
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It is said that the late Ward McAllister shrank with peculiar distaste
from the vulgarity of divorce. If so he is to be congratulated on
passing away before the publication of his niece's domestic misfits.
Mrs. Young is appallingly frank concerning her wrongs and the suit
threatens to be spicy; although so far, the name of the actress
corespondent has not been given to the press. It was good of Mr.
McAllister to attempt that separation of wheat from chaff which at one
time rendered his verdicts of such dread power among social aspirants;
it may be the irony of mockery that to-day his family are conspicuous
upon only two points. One relative goes clamorously into the divorce
court while another wins celebration by the showy style of a bodice.
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The gossip who predicted that the wife of the French ambassador would
decline to be received by the Countess Cassini must content herself as
best she may with the development of some lesser scandal, for
certainly this last effort has met refutation. Mme. Cambon dined at
the Russian embassy like the diplomatic woman that she is.
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