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The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume II

CHAPTER XXIII
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"The American Ambassador and corn bread!" he exclaimed with all the delight of a schoolboy.

Again he was invited, with another distinguished American, to serve as godfather at the christening of the daughter of an American woman who had married an Englishman.

When the ceremony was finished he leaned over the font toward his fellow godfather.

"Born on July 4th," he exclaimed, "of an American mother! And we two Yankee godfathers! We'll see that this child is taught the Constitution of the United States!" One day an American duchess came into Page's office.
"I am going home for a little visit and I want a passport," she said.
"But you don't get a passport here," Page replied.

"You must go to the Foreign Office." His visitor was indignant.
"Not at all," she answered.


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