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Show "COUNT" TOO ABSENT MINDED Principal Reason Why One International Interna-tional Marriage Was Permanently Called Off. Henry P. Davison of the Morgan banking firm was talking about international inter-national marriages: ,rWell," he said, "I know of one international in-ternational marriage that failed, thank goodness, to come off. The girl was the daughter of a Paint Rock millionaire. The man was a count, a Spanish count. "The count was absent minded. That was his undoing. The girl's father gave a dinner for. him in the Paint Rock castle overlooking Paint Rock, and at the dinner's end the count got up to light a cigarette, and then, by jove, started to remove the plates. "The guests watched him in an open-mouthed silence. His napkin slung over his arm, he had got nearly all the plates removed when his millionaire mil-lionaire host said to him gently: " 'Wake up, George. You're not waiting in the beanery now, you know. You're pretending you're a count in Paint Rock. Wake up, man, for gracious sake!'" |