What Happened to Barney on Christmas Eve?

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Henry barnet died on november tenth, 18 98. By the end of the month, blanche and roland molino were married. Their honeymoon they spent an entire month in a suite at the waldorf astoria. Roland gave her expensive presents, but she later wrote that during that time, secretly, i grieved. She said she thought about barney all the time. There were persistent thoughts of him, sad and tender, full of grief.

In 1895, Blanche Chesebrough moved into a small apartment in Gramercy Park, in New York City. She brought a portrait of her parents, a vase for flowers, and her piano. She later said, “music had been my one absorbing interest,” and that she wasn’t interested in getting married. But eventually, she agreed to anyway. When she returned home from her honeymoon, she learned her husband was suspected of murder.

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