Friday, July 18, 2014

Daily Dose

From Orlando, by Virginia Woolf

IN THE REIGN OF QUEEN ANNE

"The graces were supreme.  Fathers taught their sons, mothers their daughters.  No education was complete for either sex which did not include the science of deportment, the art of bowing and curtseying, the management of the sword and the fan, the care of the teeth, the conduct of the leg, the flexibility of the knee, the proper methods of entering and leaving the room, with a thousand etceteras, such as will immediately suggest themselves to anybody who has himself been in society."

From Chapter 4

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