These dinners,
from their lavish display of ambiguous hors d’oeuvre to their skimpy ices in
dishes of frilled paper, with their Chianti flasks and Parmesan dishes and their
polyglot waiters and polyglot clientele, were very funny and bright; and she
really liked Ramage, and valued his help and advice. Ireton will do no such thing," replied the head-turnkey. Wild was formerly an agent to
the Jacobite party, but, on the offer of a bribe from the opposite faction, he
unhesitatingly deserted and betrayed his old employers. To recreate the era, I deliberately tried to avoid creating a
thinly disguised bodice ripper where an
“empowered” woman mouthed off to prospective
suitors in jerkins and tights, in other words, a typical
romance novel. Skirting the noble
gardens of Montague House, (now, we need scarcely say, the British Museum,)
the party speedily reached Great Russell Street,—a quarter described by Strype,
in his edition of old Stow's famous Survey, "as being graced with the best
buildings in all Bloomsbury, and the best inhabited by the nobility and gentry,
especially the north side, as having gardens behind the houses, and the prospect
of the pleasant fields up to Hampstead and Highgate; insomuch that this place,
by physicians, is esteemed the most healthful of any in London. He was painfully in earnest, too.
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