Percy attempts to secure a wealthy wife through a matrimonial agency. He finally lands an awful-looking one who has a dowry of $50,000 only to find out that the check is phony and she has escaped from an insane asylum.
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Picture, if you can, a world where courtship is brokered like pork-belly futures: every flutter of the heart reduced to ledger ink, every vow counter-signed by a notary. Into this mercantile Eden slithers Percy, a man whose spine has the tensile strength of overboiled vermicelli, clutching a single obsession—marry mo...
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Herman C. Raymaker
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" Picture, if you can, a world where courtship is brokered like pork-belly futures: every flutter of the heart reduced to ledger ink, every vow counter-signed by a notary. Into this mercantile Eden slithers Percy, a man whose spine has the tensile strength of overboiled vermicelli, clutching a single obsession—marry money, escape genteel poverty. The agency he consults operates behind a frosted glass door lettered in gilt: Matrimonial Acme—Diamonds Delivered, Dowries Doubled. One sniff of his de..."
