But now, just as they were on the point of accepting, in lieu of a
Duke, an exceptionally promising Count, the aforesaid event conspired
to completely upset all of their plans--or notions, so to speak. It
was nothing less than the arrival in America of an eligible Prince of
the royal blood, a ruling Prince at that. As a matter of fact he had
not only arrived in America but upon the vast estate adjoining their
own in the Catskills.
Fortunately nothing definite had been arranged with the Count. Mrs.
Blithers now advised waiting a while before giving a definite answer
to his somewhat eager proposal, especially as he was reputed to have
sufficient means of his own to defend the chateau against any
immediate peril of profligacy. She counselled Mr. Blithers to notify
him that he deemed it wise to take the matter under advisement for a
couple of weeks at least, but not to commit himself to anything
positively negative.
Mr. Blithers said that he had never heard anything so beautifully
adroit as "positively negative," and directed his secretary to submit
to him without delay the draft of a tactful letter to the anxious
nobleman.
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