Watch your Steppe!
CHAPTER XXXVI
NORWAY AND SWEDEN
It is all very sad about Norway and Sweden! A handsomer country couple—or couple of countries—it would be hard to meet anywhere, and so propinquous! Have they not been next-door neighbours from the infancy of the world?
And everybody knows what Propinquity does.
It is Cupid’s middle name; what more natural than that they should get married?
Haven’t you heard? Well, it all happened so quickly, they were married in Vienna in 1815, and—well, you know Propinquity is the Devil’s middle name, too—they were divorced in 1905 after a brief married life of only ninety years!
What could have been the trouble?