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[Feb. 15th, 2010|03:19 am] |
Frances Sturbridge, their disapproving chaperone,
was also "Lady," they explained, but she was Lady Sturbridge, not
Lady
Frances, because she wasn't born a "Lady" and she'd married a man
who was
"only a baronet
"Whereas I could marry one of the footmen and Marjorie cc run off
with
the boot boy, and we'd still be Lady Felicity and Marjorie in the foul
sinks of Bristol where our husbands robbed poor boxes to support us
Scarlett could only laugh"It's too complicated for me," she
admitted"Oh, but my dear, it can be ever so much more complicated
than our boring little familyWhen you get into widows and horrid
little viscounts and third son's wives and so on, it's like a
labyrinthMama has to hire advice every time she gives a dinner or
she'd be guaranteed to insult someone fearfully importantYou simply
must not seat the daughter of an earl's younger son, like Roger, below
somebody like poor FrancesIt's all too foolish for words |
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