"Gentlemen prefer blondes" : $b The illuminating diary of a professional ladyLoos, Anita
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"Gentlemen prefer blondes" : $b The illuminating diary of a professional lady
Loos, Anita
Diary fiction; Humorous stories; Man-woman relationships -- Fiction; Millionaires -- Fiction; Young women -- Fiction
So we will soon be at a Ritz hotel again and I must say it will be
delightful to find a Ritz hotel right in the central of Europe.
June 1st:
Well yesterday Henrys letter came and it says in black and white that
he and his mother have never met such a girl as I and he wants me to
marry him. So I took Henrys letter to the photographers and I had quite
a lot of photographs taken of it because a girl might lose Henrys
letter and she would not have anything left to remember him by. But
Dorothy says to hang on to Henry’s letter, because she really does not
think the photographs do it justice.
So this afternoon I got a telegram from Henry and the telegram says
that Henry’s father is very, very ill in New York and they have got to
leave for New York immediately and his heart is broken not to see me
again and to send him my answer by telegraph so that his mind will be
rested while he is going back to New York. So I sent him a telegram and
I accepted his proposal. So tonight I got another telegram and Henry
says that he and his mother are very very happy and Henrys mother can
hardly bear Miss Chapman any more and Henry says he hopes I will decide
to come right back to New York and keep his mother quite a lot of
company, because he thinks I can reform Dorothy more in New York
anyway, where there is prohibition and nobody can get anything to
drink.
So now I have got to make up my mind whether I really want to marry
Henry after all. Because I know to much to get married to any gentleman
like Henry without thinking it all over. Because Henry is the kind of a
gentleman who gets on a girls nerves quite a lot and when a gentleman
has nothing else to do but get on a girls nerves, there really seems to
be a limit to almost everything. Because when a gentleman has a
business, he has an office and he has to be there, but when a
gentlemans business is only looking into other peoples business, a
gentleman is always on the verge of coming in and out of the house. And
a girl could not really say that her time was her own. And when Henry
was not in and out of the house, his mother would always be in and out
of the house because she seems to think that I am so full of nothing
but sunshine. So it is quite a problem and I seem to be in quite a
quarandary, because it might really be better if Henry should happen to
decide that he should not get married, and he should change his mind,
and desert a girl, and then it would only be right if a girl should sue
him for a breach of promise.
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