It was known as the mandarin gown during the 1920s and 1930s, when it was modernized by Chinese socialites. Well, he certainly won’t marry me, she assured him.(/ˌɡiːˈleɪn, -ˈlɛn/ ghee-LAYN, -LEN born 25 December 1961) is a British socialite known for her association with financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey. She’s been going around with Tate for several months. Why not? She’s got everything…money, power, position and beauty-and a degree from Vassar. Maybe she wants a big diamond engagement ring, and Tate can’t afford it because he’s keeping me, she said bitterly. I don’t know why that socialite Audrey had to tell you, he muttered irritably. What does it matter now? she asked wearily.
He’d been a good friend to her, as well as to Tate, over the years. He drank to excess from time to time, but he wasn’t dangerous. He had nothing to do with other women even two years after his divorce was final. Her son-in-law, as I suddenly recalled, sitting in the wing chair, made a point of hiding her wig from time to time"ġ0.
Throughout her life Auersberger's mother-in-law had a raw deal from her husband, but was content to accept her modest social station, not that of a member of the nobility, but one that was thoroughly petit bourgeois. He was a socialite, what is known as a beau, who went to all the big Viennese balls during the carnival season and throughout his life was able to conceal his stupidity behind a pleasingly slim exterior. She provided for everything, since her husband earned nothing as a doctor. She and her husband were able to live in the Gentzgasse thanks to her mother's fortune, which derived from the family estates in Styria and then devolved upon her. "Her mother, an unshapely, chubby-cheeked creature from the rural gentry of Styria, permanently lost her hair at the age of forty after being treated for influenza by her husband, and prematurely withdrew from society. Your mother was worth ten of my late wife. I made the mistake of my life when I thought money and power would be worth marrying a vicious damned socialite who could help me politically. She hung up on me! Good for her! What a pity she didn’t try that thirty-six years ago. She wouldn’t come out here and help me tell you the truth. It wouldn’t matter if your mother would speak to me! She cut me off before I got two complete sentences out. Oh, to hell with that! Maybe I’ll lose my job, so what? Holden said, glaring at him. She’ll make a damned great sidebar, with her anthropology degree! You’ll lose face with your constituents, Tate said coldly. And the press will eat you alive when it comes out.
It makes you the illegitimate son of the senior Republican senator from South Dakota. "Oh, it’s a little worse than that, he said, nettled.