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2015 FEBRUARY 87Robert Walmsley’s descent upon the city resulted in a Kilkennystruggle. He came out of the fight victor by a fortune and areputation. On the other hand, he was swallowed up by the cit....

2015 FEBRUARY 87Robert Walmsley’s descent upon the city resulted in a Kilkennystruggle. He came out of the fight victor by a fortune and areputation. On the other hand, he was swallowed up by the city. Thecity gave him what he demanded and then branded him with itsbrand. It remodelled, cut, trimmed and stamped him to the patternit approves. It opened its social gates to him and shut him in on aclose-cropped, formal lawn with the select herd of ruminants. Indress, habits, manners, provincialism, routine and narrowness heacquired that charming insolence, that irritating completeness, thatsophisticated crassness, that overbalanced poise that makes theManhattan gentleman so delightfully small in his greatness.One of the up-state rural counties pointed with pride to thesuccessful young metropolitan lawyer as a product of its soil.Six years earlier this county had removed the wheat straw frombetween its huckleberry-stained teeth and emitted a derisive andbucolic laugh as old man Walmsley’s freckle-faced “Bob” abandonedthe certain three-per-diem meals of the one-horse farm for thediscontinuous quick lunch counters of the three-ringed metropolis. Atthe end of the six years no murder trial, coaching party, automobileaccident or cotillion was complete in which the name of RobertWalmsley did not figure. Tailors waylaid him in the street to get anew wrinkle from the cut of his unwrinkled trousers. Hyphenatedfellows in the clubs and members of the oldest subpoenaed familieswere glad to clap him on the back and allow him three letters of hisname.But the Matterhorn of Robert Walmsley’s success was not scaleduntil he married Alicia Van Der Pool. I cite the Matterhorn, for justso high and cool and white and inaccessible was this daughter of the