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Title: Old Valentines
A Love Story

Author: Munson Aldrich Havens

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Language: English

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OLD VALENTINES

A Love Story

by

MUNSON HAVENS

With Illustrations

Boston and New York
Houghton Mifflin Company
The Riverside Press Cambridge
1914

Copyright, 1914, by Munson Havens

TO MY WIFE

ILLUSTRATIONS
_From drawings by Griswold Tyng_

"SHE WAS YOUR MAMMA, TOO, WASN'T SHE?"

"MAY I CALL YOU PHYLLIS?"

"ARE YOU CERTAIN YOU CAN SPARE SO LARGE A SUM?"

SIR PETER GAVE IT INTO THE TINY FINGERS

OLD VALENTINES

I

You might enter this story by the stage door. You remember beautiful
Valentine Germain--the actress? She married Robert Oglebay, the painter,
brother of Sir Peter Oglebay, the great engineer. Their baby Phyllis--

But, after all, the main entrance is more dignified.

Sir Peter Oglebay's passion is for Construction: to watch massive
machinery slowly hoisting materials more massive into positions of
incredible height with calculated accuracy. Wherever construction is in
progress you are likely to see him, standing at a little distance,
holding his silk hat on his white head with one hand as he looks
upward, and leaning, a little heavily, on his stick with the other. And
whenever or wherever you see him, you will see an English gentleman.

His portrait, in the lobby of the Engineering Society, is by Sargent.
His erect bearing, white mustache, and something about the