Blithers

"Blithers," repeated Totten, but with an entirely different inflection.

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She is adorable, she is the most adorable creature in the world, even though she is the daughter of old man Blithers, and I-- 'gad I wonder what will come of it in the end?

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"You shall not marry into the Blithers family, my lad, if we can help it," said the Count, pulling at his moustaches.

The Prince of Graustark George Barr McCutcheon 1897

The following card appeared at the head of the column, and was supplemented by a complete resume of the Blithers-Graustark muddle:

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They lived in serene ignorance of the fact that God, while he was about it, put Maud Applegate Blithers into the world on precisely the same day that the Crown Princess of

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"What else can this Miss Blithers be if not that?"

The Prince of Graustark George Barr McCutcheon 1897

"Count," said King, as they descended in the elevator, "I've got an idea in my head that Blithers will be at the Ritz at four."

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Blithers, being an honest soul, insisted that a good American gentleman was all that anybody could ask for in the way of a son-in - law, and that when it came to a grandchild it would be perfectly proper to christen him Duke -- lots of people did!

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Prince Royal in picking out a suitable husband -- or, more properly speaking, consort -- for their only daughter, Maud Applegate Blithers, aged twenty.

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As for the furnishings, I can assure you that the entire Blithers fortune could not replace them if they were to be destroyed by fire or pillage.

The Prince of Graustark George Barr McCutcheon 1897