"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 coming over on the boat I decided not to bother to meet any
gentleman, because what good does it do to meet gentlemen when there is
nothing to do on a boat but go shopping at a little shop where they do
not have any thing that costs more than five dollars. And besides if I
did meet any gentleman on the boat, he would want to see me off the
boat, and then we would bump into Henry. But then I heard that there
was a gentleman on the boat who was quite a dealer in unset diamonds
from a town called Amsterdam. So I met the gentleman, and we went
around together quite a lot, but we had quite a quarrel the night
before we landed, so I did not even bother to look at him when I came
down the gangplank, and I put the unset diamonds in my handbag so I did
not have to declare them at the customs.
So Henry was waiting for me at the customs, because he had come up from
Pennsylvania to meet me, because their country estate is at
Pennsylvania, and Henry’s father is very, very ill at Pennsylvania, so
Henry has to stay there practically all of the time. So all of the
reporters were at the customs and they all heard about how Henry and I
were engaged to one another and they wanted to know what I was before I
became engaged to Henry, so I told them that I was nothing but a
society girl from Little Rock, Arkansas. So then I became quite angry
with Dorothy because one of the reporters asked Dorothy when I made my
debut in society at Little Rock and Dorothy said I made my debut at the
Elks annual street fair and carnival at the age of 15, I mean Dorothy
never overlooks any chance to be unrefined, even when she is talking to
literary gentlemen like reporters.
So Henry brought me to the apartment in his Rolls Royce, and while we
were coming to the apartment he said he wanted to give me my engagement
ring and I really became all thrills. So he said that he had gone to
Cartiers and he had looked over all the engagement rings in Cartiers
and after he had looked them all over he had decided that they were not
half good enough for me. So then he took a box out of his pocket and I
really became intreeged. So then Henry said that when he looked at all
of those large size diamonds he really felt that they did not have any
sentiment, so he was going to give me his class ring from Amherst
College insted. So then I looked at him and looked at him, but I am to
full of self controle to say anything at this stage of the game, so I
said it was really very sweet of him to be so full of nothing but
sentiment.
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