How I Discovered America , Confessions of

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CHAPTER I In the Spring of 1894, Destiny, Chance, or what you will, threw me across the path of Anna Gould, the greatest heiress of the day, the woman who later was to become my wife, the mother of my children, and my Light that Failed. Miss Gould was staying in Paris with Miss Fanny Read, a strange individual, whose social recognition was chiefly due to her relationship with the beautiful Mrs. Arthur Paget. Fanny Read was reputed to have once been beautiful, but, as I never met anyone old enough to remember her in the heyday of her fame, I am not in a position to verify the statement. When I knew her she was certainly not beautiful, and her face was only redeemed from mediocrity by a prominent nose. She received a curious set of people in her flat in the Rue de la Tremoille, but she had acquired social fame by reason of her chaperonage of the rich American girl, whose arrival in Paris had occasioned a furore. Gossip credited Miss Gould with the possession of boundless wealth; she was worth milliards instead of millions, and there was likewise much speculation as to her matrimonial future. In this way Fanny Read had the greatness of the Goulds thrust on her, as tout Paris, myself included, frequented her salons, desiring the better acquaintance of her interesting visitor. I was not a favourite with Miss Read. She disliked my mode of enjoying life, and my "unusualness" constituted a criticism of her own dull scheme of existence. Nevertheless, so complex are the ways of Fate, Fanny Read alone was responsible for my introduction to Anna Gould, and in my life story she figures as the architect of my destiny. Read more

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• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Inc; First Edition edition (1924)

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