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...any of the other forgotten fin de siècle beauties who made their lives their art, which consequently perished with them.
Their stock response to original thought is he was 'not quite a gentleman'.
The nicknames form an effective fence.
Charles was saddled with that most tedious of all English aristocratic affectations, the need to create the illusion that you are completely unaware of any of your privileges. That cool insouciance, so chic in theory so crashingly boring in practice...
Even in these circles amazement is not forbidden in private between consenting adults.
They consider it common to know too much.

(We) resisted the freedom-giving knowledge that they have actually begun to irritate us as that seems like the worst kind of disloyalty to our own dreams.
They do not ration the commitment they give their wives because it never occurs to them that they will have to regroup their emotions before death separates them.
He loved her with a disinterested heart.
There was no room for irony in her suffering.
How much she could be fulfilled by 'personal happiness'?
There had seemed to be no open-endedness about her existence.
It is a truism but it is still true that the longer one knows people the less relevant it becomes whether or not one liked them initially.
Society has the great merit of blunting the dullness of one's partner.

<Gleanings:> hatch, match, dispatch; au fond; arriviste; lathering; Angela Brazil.

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