ckly with Rhodesia...."
And her smile was a very happy one.

FINIS.

And so in the end Diana had her little jest, and gave Johannesburg its
shock and its nine days' wonder, and was certainly the most surprising
bride of the year; though, of course, afterwards most people said they
were not surprised at all, and had expected it all along.

Before the wedding a sufficiently characteristic letter found its way
to a certain mission station in Rhodesia to delight the hearts of its
contented occupants. After duly relating all that had transpired and
how the problem had been solved, it added: "And now the only
difficulty seems to be how to relieve Meryl of her superfluous
fortune, in order that she and The Bear may live upon love and air,
and how to save me from appearing in the guise of a heroine!..."

To her old friend Stanley she wrote gaily of the perfectly splendid
surprise she had succeeded in administering to about half the
English-speaking population of South Africa.

And Stanley wrote back, with many regretful qualms tugging at his
heart: "The astonishment of South Africa is a mere detail. When the
news reached Zimbabwe, bones that have lain buried for three thousand
years rattled in their grave-clothes, and antiquities of the ages
crumbled to dust. In the morning, over our coffee, Moore and I ask of
the four winds and of the liquid butter and of the unyielding bread,
'Which did he actually marry in the end, and what became of whom?'"
...

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=LONELINESS= Robert Hugh Benson
=AN AVERAGE MAN= Robert Hugh Benson
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