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Show Rosebery's I oresight. The foresight Lord Rosebery displayed display-ed in arranging his natrimonial plana is illustrated in the f dlowing anecdote: Shortly after he had returned from his ; continental tour ho ras one of a house party at Mentmore, a lordly pleasure j house which Baron Jtfeyer Rothschild j had built for himsell in Buckingham- j shire. One evening, it dinner, the conversation con-versation turned on the exquisite decorations deco-rations of the room. Lord Rosebery's observation to his next neighbor, by way of epilogue to j tho conversation, was, "Yes, this placejwould suit me excellently. ex-cellently. " When, seven years later, he had married the daughter of the house and was the owner of Mentmore, his friend, happening to meet him, reminded remind-ed him of this observation. Lord Rosebery Rose-bery replied with assumed gravity, but with a telltalo twiakle in his eye, "Well, of course you know that the unexpected un-expected always happens. " San Fran-i Fran-i cisco Argonaut |