Milly, it's true," she said, to be exact, "has no natural sense of social values, doesn't in the least understand our differences or know who's who or what's what."
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@thatiliazdguy.bsky.socialMilly, it's true," she said, to be exact, "has no natural sense of social values, doesn't in the least understand our differences or know who's who or what's what."
@thatiliazdguy.bsky.socialHe's not, compared with other possibilities, 'in' it.
@thatiliazdguy.bsky.social"Mercy, no—far from it.
@thatiliazdguy.bsky.social"You scarcely call him, I suppose, one of the dukes."
@thatiliazdguy.bsky.socialYet he stuck a minute to the subject.
@thatiliazdguy.bsky.socialIt had made her again impatient.
@thatiliazdguy.bsky.social"Ah you know what I hold about that poor girl!"
@thatiliazdguy.bsky.socialTo which he added: "You absolutely hold that that poor girl doesn't?"
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@wflibraries.bsky.socialOn this day in 1897 ‘What Maisie Knew’ was published.
It tells the story of divorce and adulthood entirely through the perceptive eyes of a young girl, Maisie Farange.
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@thatiliazdguy.bsky.social"Oh!" Densher answered with a sound like his lordship's own.
@thatiliazdguy.bsky.social"Don't care for Lord Mark."
@thatiliazdguy.bsky.social"Don't say too much?"
@thatiliazdguy.bsky.socialBut I'm glad I don't."
@thatiliazdguy.bsky.social"You oughtn't to make me say too much.
@thatiliazdguy.bsky.socialShe shook her head in beautiful grave deprecation.
@thatiliazdguy.bsky.social"You conceive it a real escape then not to care for him?"
@thatiliazdguy.bsky.socialThat's Aunt Maud's security, though she doesn't yet fully recognise it—besides being Milly's own."
@thatiliazdguy.bsky.socialMilly's own state of mind, however," she went on, "is lucky.
@thatiliazdguy.bsky.socialWhat they think of their enemies, goodness knows, is bad enough; but I'm still more struck with what they think of their friends.