Umzuzwana emva, uMnu.Columbia uzame ukuzoba umthi wosapho lakwaMortimer, kodwa wasilela; Akukho mntu wayenokumxelela nantoni na, utshilo.
Intsapho yakwaMortimer ilandelela imvelaphi yayo kuJohn Jay, umgwebi wokuqala wesizwe. Esinye sesizukulwana sangoku, uRobert Livingston (Topper) Mortimer, umyeni othembekileyo kaTinsley, ngumzukulwana kaHenry Morgan Tilford, umongameli we-Standard Oil, kwaye uthwele igama likaRobert Livingston, umlobi Isibhengezo senkululeko.
Zininzi kakhulu. Kunzima kakhulu, utshilo uChristine Mortimer Biddle, oyintombi kaKatherine Mortimer no-Oliver Cadwell Biddle. Umnumzana uBiddle wayengu-Biddles wase-Philadelphia, utshilo, usapho olwaluneegusha ezimnyama kakhulu yayingu madam Sydney Biddle Barrows. Bonke batshata kakuhle kwaye bahlala, kwaye babenabantwana abaninzi abatshatileyo kakuhle kwaye rhoqo. Abazali bakhe baqhawula umtshato, kwaye U-Mortimer uqhubeke watshata inkanyezi ye-tennis uFrank Xavier Shields-wayesele engumkakhe wesithathu- kunye no Richard Blaine. Kwilizwe endikhulele kulo, yayiqhelekile into yokuhlala nomntu otshate naye ubomi bakho bonke, utshilo.
UKatharine Mortimer Blaine, owasweleka kwiminyaka emithathu edlulileyo, wayengomnye wabantwana abathandathu bakaStanley Grafton Mortimer noKathleen Tilford. Unksz Tilford wayeyintombi ka-Henry Morgan Tilford.
Kodwa ndingatsho ukuba ngokubanzi, abaBulala kakhulu bahlala ngaphandle kwimithombo yeendaba, kuba babengenasizathu senkundla yeendaba, utshilo uNks. Biddle. Abafazi-njengo-Babe no-Tinsley-bayabhalwa malunga nentabalala.
UBabe waqala ngoBarbara Cushing ngaphambi kokuba atshate noStanley Mortimer Jr., umthengisi wempahla, ngo-1940. Babenabantwana ababini, uStanley III noAmanda. U-Babe no-Stanley Jr. baqhawula umtshato ngo-1946 baphinda batshata kungaphelanga nonyaka, betshata: yena waya ku Kathleen H. Harriman, umzukulwana kaTycoon uE. Babe, owayesebenza njengomhleli wefashoni e Vogue , wayeyindlovukazi yentlalontle yexesha lakhe. UTruman Capote wambandakanya kwiqela lakhe le-swans. Wayengomnye wabo badume ngelithi, Umntu akanakuze abe sisityebi kakhulu okanye acekeceke kakhulu.
UAmanda wenza indima yakhe ukugcina isiko lokutshata liphila. Waqala ukubanjiswa uCarter Burden (umzukulwana omkhulu kaCornelius Vanderbilt), owayekhe wangumnini Ilizwi leLali kwaye Inew York kwaye kamva waba liBhunga leSixeko saseNew York. Waligcina elo gama kodwa waphinda watshata uSteve Ross, iTime Warner C.E.O. owasweleka ngo-1992, emva koko waqhubeka nobudlelwane obude kunye noCharlie Rose, ekuthiwa waphela ngo-2005.
Uyise, uStanley Jr., osweleke ngo-1999, wayenabantakwabo abahlanu, uHenry, uRichard, uJohn Jay, uKatherine no-Eve.
UJohn Jay ngutata kaTopper, kwaye uEva watshata noClarence Pell, osapho lwakowabo lwanceda ukuhlala kumantla eNew York, emva koko uLewis Cass Ledyard, utata wakhe waseka inkampani yezomthetho uCarter, uLedyard noMilburn.
Ndandihlala ndichukunyiswa lilungelo, utshilo u-Eve Pell, intombi ka-Eve noClarence. Unksz Pell, ohlala eSan Francisco, usandula ukugqiba ibhayografi yazo zombini iintsapho zikaPell kunye neMortimer ezibiziweyo Sasisebenzisa i-Bronx . Le ncwadi okwangoku ivenkile. Ngokwenyani singekho eMelika ngokomoya, utshilo. IHoratio Alger ngekhe yamkeleke kusapho lwethu. Kwaye umbono kukufumana njengelifa imali yakho kwaye ungayenzi-kwaye kwakudala, kungcono.
Ndikhumbula xa umakhulu wam wayesaphila, usapho lonke lwaluza kuya endlwini yakhe kwisidlo sasemini esihle seKrisimesi, utshilo uNkskz. Kule mihla, kunzima ukugcina umkhondo wabo bonke abantu.
