the Empire Mrs. Moulton returned to America, where Mr. Moulton died,
and a few years afterward she married M. de Hegermann-Lindencrone, at
that time Danish Minister to the United States, and later periods his
country's representative at Stockholm, Rome, Paris, Washington and
Berlin.




THE ALPHABET OF A DIPLOMAT


_Ambassador_ A man, just a little below God.
_Attaché_ The lowest rung of the ladder.
_Blunder_ How absurd! Why, _never_!...
_Chancellery_ The barn-yard where he is plucked.
_Chief_ The cock of the walk.
_Colleagues_ A question merely of time and place.
_Court_ Where one learns to make courtesies.
_Decorations_ The balm for all woes.
_Dinners_ The surest road to success.
_Disponsibility_ The Styx, whence no one returns.
_Esprit_ (_de corps_) The corps is there, but where is the _esprit_?
_Etiquette_ The Ten Commandments.
_Finesse_ A narrow lane where two can walk abreast.
_Friendships_ Ships that pass in the night.
_Gotha_ (_almanack_) The Bible of a Diplomat.
_Highness_ _His, _Her_, make a deep courtesy.
_Ignoramus_ A person who does not agree with you.
_Innuendo_ An obscure side-light of truth.