Word: georgina
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...Paris they went. When Peter had time to spare from his other pursuits, he thought on Georgina and was faithful to her after his fashion...
Came the War. Peter and Gabbe joined the French forces at the front, . where in due course Peter was wounded. In the hospital Georgina (who had conveniently come over as a nurse) consoled him by saying: "War isn't what it used to be. Nowadays you can face the enemy and still get a wound from the rear...
There were gay times in Paris with Georgina after Peter had recovered. He wooed her with champagne and hors d'oeuvres, wanted her to marry him at once; but the thought of that one pig deterred her. She decided it would be too hard upon the pig to have to support them both. So, as a compromise, he bought her a lock bracelet and departed for the front, keeping...
From now on, the story runs riot. The War ends, Peter returns home, his father relents, he marries Georgina amid a swirl of roses and Rolls-Royces. But something that (to the reader's slightly puzzled intelligence) seems like an attack of amnesia, causes her to drive off in her new Rolls on their wedding night?while her unsuspecting husband sits by the moonlit lake and meditates, and never misses her till morning...
...rest of the story is a dizzying mélange of Peter's wanderings seeking Georgina amid the Bolsheviks in Russia, the Sinn Feiners in Ireland, the Fascisti in Rome, the Ku Kluxers in the U. S. Georgina is continually turning up, conveniently but mysteriously, in the course of his terrestrial ambulations, and ectoplasmically fading from the picture again...