Saturday, June 25, 2016

Daily Dose


From The Best of Saki, edited by Martin Stephen

THE DOWAGER LADY BEANFORD

"Susan Lady Beanford was a vigorous old woman who had coquetted with imaginary ill-health for the greater part of a lifetime; Clovis Sangrail irreverently declared that she had caught a chill at the Coronation of Queen Victoria and had never let it go again."

From Louise

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