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Chapter 16 has a conversation like watching an expert fencing match. It’s impossible to see who will get the upper hand. 👀
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Elizabeth
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Transplanting is a good metaphor for this book. Page 276 with Betty’s speech.
— Jan 15, 2026 04:06PM
Elizabeth
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Chapter 14 is hilarious! Lord Mount Dunstan happens to meet an American young man outside his park gate and invites him to lunch.
“He was markedly unlike an English youth of his class…he was at his ease to quite an amazing degree…He found indeed a gleeful point in the joke of the incongruousness of his own presence amid such surroundings” (249).
The differences in slang and idiom are so funny.
— Jan 14, 2026 06:04PM
“He was markedly unlike an English youth of his class…he was at his ease to quite an amazing degree…He found indeed a gleeful point in the joke of the incongruousness of his own presence amid such surroundings” (249).
The differences in slang and idiom are so funny.
Elizabeth
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“Disorder filled her with a sort of impatience which was akin to physical distress” (132).
— Jan 12, 2026 05:43PM
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Ohhhh I own this one so can't wait to hear what you think.
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Penny wrote: "Ohhhh I own this one so can't wait to hear what you think."I just got it for Christmas! I loved the writing in the first bit I read.
