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XVI
A JOURNEY TO SWEDEN
I think I have already told you something
about the illness of the Swedish Consul, it
happened just about that time, here is the story.
The Consul was a nice, quiet little man with an
American wife and two small children. I had
been there in the afternoon. One of the children
had a feverish cold but insisted on getting up for
the festival home-coming of their father that
same evening. The house was full of flowers and
the children had been allowed to sit up for dinner
in honour of the occasion. Their mother was
very pleased to show me two most affectionate
telegrams from her husband, one from Berlin,
one from Cologne, announcing his return. They
seemed to me somewhat long. At midnight I
received an urgent message from his wife to come
at once. The door was opened by the Consul
himself in his night-shirt. He said that the
dinner had been postponed to await the arrival
of the King of Sweden and the President of the
French Republic, who had just made him a
Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour. He had
just bought Le Petit Trianon as summer
residence for his family. He was in a rage with his
wife for not wearing the Marie Antoinette pearl
necklace he had given her, called his little boy
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