| There never was and never will be any-thing like Newport in 1912. Womensquandered milions in fierce competi-tion for social ascendancy, men madetbrtunes and lost them over a glass ofbrandy, and love was as cheap as a ser-vant s wages. Or so Ainelia Leighton had learned adecade ago when she had to marryagainst her will an English nobleman.It was a fir exchange, the Fonr Hun-dred agreed- Amelia s dowry tor theduke s title. But the duke had turnedont to he anything but fair, and in New-port, divorce could be as expensive asmarriage. Bnt then everything in Newport wasexpensive. Samuel Van Nest s services,for example, would cost thirty-five mil-lion. That was the price he had givenJ. P. Morgan for winning over-or break-ing-five of the most powerful men in American finance. |
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