He has made no move in the matter.
Under these circumstances an intrigue with any of the
leaders of fashionable society has proved impossible. My
attempts to approach them have been misunderstood--in
fact, have led to my being invited to leave the J. hotel.
The fact that I was compelled to leave it, owing to
reasons that I cannot reveal, without paying my account,
has occasioned unnecessary and dangerous comment. I
connect it, in fact, with the singular attitude adopted
by the B. hotel on my arrival in New York, to which I
have already referred.
I have therefore been compelled to fall back on revelations
and disclosures. Here again I find the American atmosphere
singularly uncongenial. I have offered to reveal to the
Secretary of State the entire family history of Ferdinand
of Bulgaria for fifty dollars. He says it is not worth
it. I have offered to the British Embassy the inside
story of the Abdication of Constantine for five dollars.
They say they know it, and knew it before it happened.
I have offered, for little more than a nominal sum, to
blacken the character of every reigning family in Germany.
I am told that it is not necessary.
Meantime, as it is impossible to return to Central Europe,
I expect to open either a fruit store or a peanut stand
very shortly in this great metropolis.
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