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Saturday Evening Post (13 July 1929)
The extraordinary thing is not that people in a lifetime turn out worse or better than we had prophesied1; particularly in America that is to be expected. The extraordinary thing is how people keep their levels, fulfill2 their promises, seem actually buoyed3 up by an inevitable4 destiny.
One of my conceits5 is that no one has ever disappointed me since I turned eighteen and could tell a real quality from a gift for sleight6 of hand, and even many of the merely showy people in my past seem to go on being blatantly7 and successfully showy to the end.
Emily Castleton was born in Harrisburg in a medium-sized house, moved to New York at sixteen to a big house, went to the Briarly School, moved to an enormous house, moved to a mansion8 at Tuxedo9 Park, moved abroad, where she did various fashionable things and was in all the papers. Back in her debutante10 year one of those French artists who are so dogmatic about American beauties, included her with eleven other public and semipublic celebrities11 as one of America’s perfect types. At the time numerous men agreed with him.
She was just faintly tall, with fine, rather large features, eyes with such an expanse of blue in them that you were really aware of it whenever you looked at her, and a good deal of thick blond hair — arresting and bright. Her mother and father did not know very much about the new world they had commandeered so Emily had to learn everything for herself, and she became involved in various situations and some of the first bloom wore off. However, there was bloom to spare. There were engagements and semi-engagements, short
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wilting
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rustle
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ripple
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