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Counting Down to the End of....Downton Abbey
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Aloysius J. Gleek on January 07, 2016, 01:55:51 am ---And don't forget the cucumber sandwiches! :laugh:
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But remember, Gwendolyn is devoted to bread and butter. :laugh:
CellarDweller:
lol
well, that I can deal with!
Aloysius J. Gleek:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on January 07, 2016, 10:38:48 am ---But remember, Gwendolyn is devoted to bread and butter. :laugh:
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GWENDOLEN. I had no idea there were any flowers in the country.
CECILY. Oh, flowers are as common here, Miss Fairfax, as people are in London.
GWENDOLEN. Personally I cannot understand how anybody manages to exist in the country, if anybody who is anybody does. The country always bores me to death.
CECILY. Ah! This is what the newspapers call agricultural depression, is it not? I believe the aristocracy are suffering very much from it just at present. It is almost an epidemic amongst them, I have been told. May I offer you some tea, Miss Fairfax?
GWENDOLEN. [With elaborate politeness.] Thank you. [Aside.] Detestable girl! But I require tea!
CECILY. [Sweetly.] Sugar?
GWENDOLEN. [Superciliously.] No, thank you. Sugar is not fashionable any more. [CECILY looks angrily at her, takes up the tongs and puts four lumps of sugar into the cup.]
CECILY. [Severely.] Cake or bread and butter?
GWENDOLEN. [In a bored manner.] Bread and butter, please. Cake is rarely seen at the best houses nowadays.
CECILY. [Cuts a very large slice of cake, and puts it on the tray.] Hand that to Miss Fairfax.
[MERRIMAN does so, and goes out with footman. GWENDOLEN drinks the tea and makes a grimace. Puts down cup at once, reaches out her hand to the bread and butter, looks at it, and finds it is cake. Rises in indignation.]
GWENDOLEN. You have filled my tea with lumps of sugar, and though I asked most distinctly for bread and butter, you have given me cake. I am known for the gentleness of my disposition, and the extraordinary sweetness of my nature, but I warn you, Miss Cardew, you may go too far.
CECILY. [Rising.] To save my poor, innocent, trusting boy from the machinations of any other girl there are no lengths to which I would not go.
GWENDOLEN. From the moment I saw you I distrusted you. I felt that you were false and deceitful. I am never deceived in such matters. My first impressions of people are invariably right.
CECILY. It seems to me, Miss Fairfax, that I am trespassing on your valuable time. No doubt you have many other calls of a similar character to make in the neighbourhood.
;D
Jeff Wrangler:
I hope she remembered to bring her diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train. :laugh:
Aloysius J. Gleek:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on January 07, 2016, 12:49:40 pm ---I hope she remembered to bring her diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train. :laugh:
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I should say! ;D
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