Saturday, October 24, 2009

Daily Dose

From The Letters of Bret Harte, assembled and edited by Geoffrey Bret Harte

ENGLISH ARISTOCRACY

"... they are one and all exceedingly gentle and singularly diffident in their opinions; and certainly never visibly astonished at anything. It may seem a dreadful thing to say, but their manner is that of persons who might be in the habit of living with mad people, or attending some kind of reformatory."

From a letter dated, " Trewsbury, Cirencester, September 15, 1889"

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