Old Valentines
excerpt from the book..You might enter this story by the stage door. You remember beautifulValentine Germain--the actress? She married Robert Oglebay, the painter,brother of Sir Peter Oglebay, the great engineer. Their baby Phyllis--But, after all, the main entrance is more dignified.Sir Peter Oglebay's passion is for Construction: to watch massivemachinery slowly hoisting materials more massive into positions ofincredible height with calculated accuracy. Wherever construction is inprogress you are likely to see him, standing at a little distance,holding his silk hat on his white head with one hand as he looksupward, and leaning, a little heavily, on his stick with the other. Andwhenever or wherever you see him, you will see an English gentleman.
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