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1 " I'm sorry to disturb you, madam,' said Nurse, 'but I thought I'd better speak to you. It's about Miss Delia's knickers' she continued, after a glance at the Vicar and a rapid decision that his cloth protected him. 'She really hasn't a pair fit to wear... "
― Angela Thirkell , The Brandons (Barsetshire, #7)
2 " That’s what I meant, phalanx,’ he repeated. ‘Phalanstère I expect you mean,’ said Tony Morland courteously, managing at the same time to put half a meringue away in one cheek like a monkey in his desire to impart information. ‘The theory of the phalanstère was begun and put into practice by Fourier, about 1832, but it was never much of a success. He wanted to organise society into bodies called phalanges, who were to live in phalanstère which were a square league. There is a lot more but you wouldn’t understand it. I know about it all because we did it last term.’ ‘I "
3 " The thought of Aunt Sissie bullying Hilary made her unaccountably angry. He was so obviously the sort that couldn’t look after himself. People who wrote books might be brainy, but they were never quite all there in Delia’s opinion, and needed someone with some sense to look after them. It had been just like Mother to try to help anyone who was in trouble, but Delia felt that if she had been there she would not only have protected Hilary just as well, but have carried the war into the enemy’s country and routed Aunt Sissie thoroughly.[...]‘I’ll tell you what I wish,’ said Delia. ‘I wish Aunt Sissie had thrown her stick at you and broken your arm or your leg. Then they’d have had to send for Dr Ford to set it, and I’d have come and helped him. I’m awfully good at that sort of thing. And then I’d have told Aunt Sissie exactly what we all thought of her.’She gazed at her cousin with an intensity which made him feel that she might rush at him and fracture one of his limbs for the sheer pleasure of helping Dr Ford to set it. "
