Show ame mme genfi rint husband ame mme married at the age of fourteen M geoffrian Geoff rin a wealthy glasa manufacturer and lieutenant colonel of the national guard his duty as husband seems to have been to provide the funds for her social campaigns and to watch over the details of the menage it is related of him that some person gave him a history to read and when he asked for the successive volumes regularly palmed off upon him the first as if it were new at last he was beard to eay that he thought the author repeated himself a little A book printed in double columns he read straight across the page remarking that it seemed to be very good but was rather abstract one day a visitor inquired after the silent white haired old gentleman who was 10 the habit of sitting at the head of he table oh ho was my husband replied ame mme geoff rin before he died san francisco argonaut s |