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Chapter 9

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Yes, it was quite like other weddings. I only wonder for what conceivable reason I remember its least detail, and so vividly. For it all happened a great while ago, when--of such flimsy stuff is glory woven,--Emilio Aguinaldo and Captain Coghlan were the persons most talked of in America; and when the Mazet committee was "investigating" I forget what, but with column after column about it in the papers every day; and when Me und Gott was a famous poem, and "to hobsonize" was the most popular verb; and when I was twenty-one. Sic transit gloria mundi, as it says in the back of the dictionary.

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Cabell — The Cords of Vanity (James Branch Cabell) (author lived 1879–1958). Public Domain. James Branch Cabell, The Cords of Vanity; public domain in the US; text from Project Gutenberg #9608. Source

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