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Jul 2019
9:09am, 25 Jul 2019
40,635 posts
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McGoohan
Dear reader. Hereafter as one's caprice exceeds one's candour and impels those accusations of contumely to be the very antithesis of one's perturbation, it is therefore vexatious that some might countenance a provocation or entreaty sufficient to exceed propriety. These strictures aside, let us contrive to impute our genuine opinions below, without censure, mortification or indifference.
Reader, beware. Contempt is reserved for the individual who might render Miss Austen's prose redundant through exceeding the strictures of one's foreknowledge of the prose in question.
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Jul 2019
9:16am, 25 Jul 2019
38,799 posts
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Diogenes
It was the second footman what done it!
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Jul 2019
9:17am, 25 Jul 2019
40,639 posts
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McGoohan
*Swoons into the shrubbery*
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Jul 2019
9:20am, 25 Jul 2019
38,800 posts
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Diogenes
But seriously, this is good stuff, this is how to start a book...
"No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy would have supposed her born to be an heroine. Her situation in life, the character of her father and mother, her
own person and disposition, were all equally against her. Her father was a clergyman, without being neglected, or poor, and a very respectable man, though his name was
Richard — and he had never been handsome. He had a considerable independence besides two good livings — and he was not in the least addicted to locking up his daughters. Her mother was a woman of useful plain sense, with a good temper, and, what is more remarkable, with a good constitution. She had three sons before Catherine was born; and instead of dying in bringing the latter into the world, as anybody might expect, she still lived on — lived to have six children more — to see them growing up around her, and to enjoy excellent health herself"
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Jul 2019
10:35am, 25 Jul 2019
13,837 posts
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Autumnleaves
I love this book! Although to do it justice you have to know what Mrs Radcliffe's novels of the time were like.
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Jul 2019
11:06am, 25 Jul 2019
40,647 posts
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McGoohan
I have read Mysteries of Udolpho
*polishes halo* 
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Jul 2019
11:11am, 25 Jul 2019
13,839 posts
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Autumnleaves
*blinks in the glare*
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Jul 2019
11:17am, 25 Jul 2019
40,648 posts
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McGoohan
I don't remember much about it though
*Puts rusty halo back down*
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Jul 2019
10:32pm, 25 Jul 2019
20,894 posts
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Lizzie W
:-D
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Jul 2019
10:40pm, 25 Jul 2019
40,669 posts
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McGoohan
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