Wow! Was he a total butthead, or what? His "aristo" mother was a real piece of work too, basically saying, "You're marrying my son, but you're a commoner, unlike me, so you don't have any finer feelings for me to hurt." Grandpa apparently did love his granddaughter, but with all his convoluted and wannabe devious schemes, it's no wonder that the grandmother divorced him and took off for America.
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