Charles Haigh-Wood, British
“Robert Was Able To Allay Father’s Concerns About His Family Background and His Prospects. But He Appears To Be Having Trouble Defending Some Old Tweets,” 1899
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“I’m not very good at reading lips, but I think he just said, “I’d like permission to bury your doctor.”
Norman asks for permission to wed the Duke’s daughters:
/// Anxious Moments as Norman acquaints
the girls’ parents with nuptial constraints.
For large doweries he
can be wed to all three
in his Church of the Latter-Day Saints.
/// He warmed each sister’s dreams as she slept.
Norman’s charming and handsome. He swept
each young maid off her feet,
and, to make it complete,
in one household they all would be kept.
/// “More than one wife?” The Duchess can’t bear it.
“I’ve his title; no others can share it.
Take a mistress or two,
no disputes will ensue
for a bastard son cannot inherit.”
/// The girls’ father considered the match.
He thought, “Norman the Mormon’s a catch.”
Then the young man said, “We
LDS can’t drink tea.”
They sent Norman away with dispatch.
/// Norm had hoped British parents “progressed”
beyond those in the U.S. Midwest
who were overly picky,
thought polygamy “icky,”
and would stone him for what he’d suggest.
/// So he travelled to wed ‘cross the sea.
Where these “Duke girls” had all seemed to be
to his life less a hazard.
He now sees where he has erred.
Should’ve said he can drink herbal tea.