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I am really enjoying this author. I finished a short story collection, now I am starting on his novels.

A reread for me. Ridiculous first person with amazing insight and exquisite writing. Definitely chick lit, I guess. I overlook that because the character development is so good.

“Truth is the enfant terrible of the Virtues.” William J. Locke, The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne, p. 50

“If she woke up one morning and found she had a mind she would think it a disease.”

Like Locke's Septimus -- ludicrous, obnoxious, and /very/ entertaining

"Well, has mother prevailed?"-"My Dear Dora," said I politely,"how can you imagine it could possibly be a question of persuasion?"-"That might be taken two ways," paid Dora. "Like Palmerston's 'Dear Sir, I'll lose no time in reading your book."'

"I don't think I contribute to the world's humour; but the world's humour contributes much to my own entertainment. " (That's me! I'm feeling very gleeful to hear somebody else has a similar wicked sense of humor)

A nice English girl of eighteen would not flaunt unconcerned about my drawing-room in a shameless dressing-gown, and crinkle up her toes in font of; still less would she tell me outrageous stories; but she will wear low-necked dresses and gaze at ladies in tights without a ghost of an immodest thought. I was right when I told Carlotta England was Alexandretta up-side down.

It is all the fault of Antoinette. Why can't she cook in a middle class, unedifying way? All this comes from having a woman whose soul is in the stew-pot.

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