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-- OR -- Mr. Frankland, elderly legal enthusiast whom you can also find in his own digs at Lafter Hall, can also be seen in these previous issues of Electro-Graphic Monthly courtesy of his literary agent David Richardson: |
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Letter From Mr. Frankland Lafter
Hall Ladies and gentlemen of the Dark Lantern League, as well as distinguished associates thereof --- I repeat the address of a communication I received from one Lord Ellefont Appledore, a clearly forged name and title if I ever heard one. His cause: extra-British marriage. What he apparently means by this is English women marrying foreign men. (I have to say, I do not understand the phase 'extra-British' -- if one is British one is, and there's and end to it -- one might as well say 'extra-virgin.') The ways of love are strange. My daughter married a rascal who left her after he had used her. I had tried to steer her away, but she saw it as unwanted interference, and for a few years we were estranged. As luck would have it, that was when Sir Henry came back and Dr. Watson showed up (and perpetrated his calumnies against me). My experience has led me to conclude that speaking out against a marriage is almost the surest way one can insure that it will take place. I do think that English women should marry English men, but dark handsome strangers do seem to appeal to young women. I am ... yours, faithfully, Mr Frankland |
