. Il giornale di un nonno . leftto ci ha lasciato passare, lo sposo dietro nel nostro carrello calledour attenzione ad un Victoria allineato sulla strada toour sinistra un po' più avanti, dicendoci gli occupanti erano il Dowager e la Duchessa di R, il lat-ter da tutte le probabilità, Come già sapevo, la più ricca ragazza Amer-ican che si è mai sposata all'estero; e nessuno lì, mi è stato detto, hanno meglio deportato se stessi. Shewas dei re allora stabilito - quello era a Edwardstime. Ora è, vedo dai giornali, una ^yeatfavorite con la regina Maria, e attualmente perhapsthe più onorata donna americana circa la Corte. Kickem è, io sottile

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. The journal of a grandfather . leftto let us through, the groom behind in our cart calledour attention to a Victoria lined up on the road toour left a little way ahead, telling us the occupantswere the Dowager and the Duchess of R, the lat-ter by all odds, as I already knew, the richest Amer-ican girl that ever married abroad; and none there, I am told, have better deported themselves. Shewas of the Kings set then—that was in Edwardstime. She is now, I see from the papers, a ^yeatfavorite with Queen Mary, and at present perhapsthe most honored American woman about the Court. Kickem is, I think, a right good whip. She earlylearned to drive, and can handle quite well a ParkFour upon occasion, without ever having had to payHowlett of Paris, or Batony of New York, ten dol-lars a lesson. As she in her quiet, unpretentious way, that morning drove through the hunting crowd, hand-ling her whip and reins, and sitting the box withthat easy grace that so bespeaks the horsewonian, all eyes were upon her, —those of the charming. She Handles Well a Four Upon Occasion Page Two Hundred Seventeen RIDING AND SHOOTING IN SCOTLAND Duchess and Dowager not excepted, neither givingso much as a glance at Gramp, who gotten up inhis nattiest sporting togs, felt quite put out aboutit; however, as he received an invitation to shootpheasants on the Dukes place, he became reconciled.We drove straight home. The girl on no accountbeing willing to wait and see the start. On reachingthe house, we found there was not a decent hunterleft in the stables. This being the first meet andrun of the new year, all had been taken. There wasquite a company at dinner that evenings By thistime about all of them had seen the American girlride, drive and shoot. To say that old Gramp wasjust then a bit proud of her is putting it mildly. Kickem, excepting a flying teal once in a while atour duck shooting place on Caddo Lake, and a quailnow and then at Cottonwood over a point to pleaseme as we ride, and together fro

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