ill recognise it. It was your first overwhelming gift, and on
our wedding day I was so taken up with my new splendour that I never
heard a word of the pastor's sermon. They said it was most eloquent.

I hope you will have the tact to remove the too numerous portraits of
myself which adorn your walls. Sell them for the benefit of struggling
artists; in that way, they will serve some good purpose, and I shall not
run the risk of being disfigured by my successor.

If I should come across any pretty china, or fine embroidery, in Japan,
I shall not forget your passion for collecting.

Let me know the actual date of the wedding, you can always communicate
through my banker. But the announcement will suffice. Do not write.
Henceforth you must devote yourself entirely to your role of young
husband.

You quite forgot to answer my questions about Lillie, and I conclude
from your silence that all is well with her.

Give her my love, and accept my affectionate greetings.

ELSIE LINDTNER.

P.S.--As yet I cannot grapple with the problem of my future appellation.
I do not feel inclined to return to my maiden name. "Elizabeth Bugge"
makes me think of an overgrown grave in a churchyard.

Well, you will be neither the first nor the last man with several wives
scattered about the globe. The world may be a small place, but it is
large enough to hold two "Mrs. Lindtners" without any chance of their
running across each other.

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