Excerpt from The Bride of the White House
The reception accorded this volume was sufficiently favorable to encourage further ventures in the field of literature, and the American public began to plume itself upon the possession of a genuine authoress within the precincts of the Executive Mansion. But greater surprises were in store’. It began to be whispered that the President seriously contemplated matrimony, and although these rumors did not immediately take definite shape they exhibited a persistency which compelled cre dence, and even the refusal of those most nearly con cerned to confirm them failed utterly to silence Mrs. Grundy in her assertion that where there was so much smoke there necessarily must be some fire.
Presently, the reports took more definite shape; names and localities began to be mentioned; the ubiqui tous reporter, with his ever-ready tablet and his ever pointed pencil, made himself exceedingly active; his keen professional scent could not be baffled; and bit by bit the rather startling intelligence that Mr. Cleveland would exchange his bachelor freedom for the comforts of the connubial state became public property. It was learned that Miss Folsom, of Buffalo, was the lady of the President’s choice; but, beyond this, little was known, and as the prospective bride was then in Europe the opportunities of the gossips were limited. The main facts of the lady’s life soon became known, however.
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