A Voyage of Consolation
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One English season back, Arthur Page decides your vowels have gone unpatriotic, and the argument outgrows the syllable that started it until your ring slips off and rolls across the carpet. Rather than cry, you telephone your father in New York, and Poppa Wick prescribes the fastest cure he knows: the Germanic sails for Europe on Wednesday, and by the next night the broken engagement is a shipboard fact instead of a Chicago headline. Belowdecks, your mother is already drafting a telegram to Arthur that nobody has agreed to send.
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