edith's mother was upset by her unusual features and great height.
Dame Edith, that "throwback to the Plantagenets" as she likes to put it, sat erect in the corner of a cosy cretonne sofa. The sofa was in the television room of the London Ladies Club and her face lit it as the moon would illuminate a bus. Her face is in fact as alien to the conventional human face as the moon is to an electric light bulb.
jane bown may 1959
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"He wore the cast off wig of a beggar which he had picked up out of a wet ditch"
she was talking about the god of all misers.
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