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| Sadie Laura Comely-ffinch considered long and hard. He was gorgeous. He had been the only one in Holland to ask her out. He'd also "run out of gas" on a back road and pawed her. She finished considering and smacked him hard. |
Sister Peters in Amsterdam vs. Never Say Goodbye
Blow Hot, Blow Cold vs. Once For All Time
Fate is Remarkable vs. Polly
Tulips for Augusta vs. At the End of the Day
Tabitha in Moonlight vs. Never the Time and the Place
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| She wanted to run past him as he stood there jangling the change in his pocket. But he caught her instead and proffered a large, snowy-white square of linen and let her burst into tears all over his wool superfine. |
Sister Peters in Amsterdam
ReplyDeleteOnce for all Time
Fate is Remarkable
At the End of the Day
Tabitha in Moonlight
Betty von Susie
Vote early and vote often!!!!
Sister Peters in Amsterdam
ReplyDeleteBlow Hot, Blow Cold
Fate is Remarkable
Tulips for Roly, uh, I mean Augusta
Never the Time and the Place
Greetings from Asheville, North Carolina. If there are any Bettys in the vicinity, I'm staying in the Willow Winds cabins, just off Route 25A. Of course, it's pouring rain night now, but who cares. It's cosy, and there's WiFi (I admit it: we *never* travel off the grid), and apart from the abysmal cold Betty Ross brought back from Oxford (which has made me twice as sick as it made him, the rotter), I'm having a fine time.
Ooooh Asheville, I would love to see Biltmore, I would especially love to see it at Christmas when they decorate it so beautifully, sigh......
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I beat you both Betty Barbara but I am not the kind of person who would rub it in, much... :-P ha ha!
Yesterday, as I was surfing, I saw Asheville on the Conquering the World widget (between 2:00-2:30 p.m.), and I thought, "Could this be our Magdalen?"
DeleteEnjoy your vacation!
Betty Anonymous
Betty Barbara here--
ReplyDeleteAcckkkk----Blogger ate my comment! Else I would have been before Betty Magdalen (sniff)...
Never Say Goodbye--rescue Nanny from Poland, yay!!!
Once For All Time
Fate is Remarkable
Arrgghhh--I really dislike both heroines--but I really like Julius--so a reluctant vote for Tulips for Augusta
Tabitha in Moonlight--one of my Top Ten
Once for All Time
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Tabitha in Moonlight
Aaagh! I can't vote for some of my favorites.
Betty Lulu, go ahead and vote for Blow Hot, Blow Cold. After all, you know that nothing could be better, right?
DeleteThis voting is getting harder! Aaaccckkk!
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***Once for All Time
***Fate Is Remarkable (but love Polly too; sorry Polly and Sam)
*At the End of the Day
*Tabitha in Moonlight (like Never the Time and Place too but must vote for those oil-stained shorts)
Betty AnoninTX
Sister Peters in Amsterdam ♥ ♥ ♥ Dear Addy. Love the scene when she gets lost in the flurry and steps into the hotel lobby. (Why is he annoyed?)
ReplyDeleteOnce for All Time To go where no Oliviaminta has gone before. Behind the Iron Curtain. (No, ladies, not Brighton. There were heroines who did go to Brighton with the good-for-nothing skirt-chaser of the piece: Charity with Cor van Kamp (The Final Touch), Loveday with RBD’s-Evil-Cousin Charles (The Doctor’s Girl). Any more?)
Polly though I have always loved FIR
At the End of the Day Pitting these two against each other – not fair. I ♥ Roly too. Sniff.
Never the Time and the Place Stourhead. To you, of course, Josephine. Melt.
Betty Anonymous
Yes, I did get Once for All Time and Never Say Goodbye mixed up. My thoughts must have gone begging.
DeleteAnyway, it's still Dr half-Dutch Thackeray over the Jonkheer.
So all is well on the tallying side.
Betty Anonymous
WHAT are you people THINKING??!! Once for All Time "I love you but I choose not to mention it and watch you engage yourself to an idiot for THREE YEARS and hope things work out" over Blow Hot Blow Cold and the magnificent Max and super Sophy?
ReplyDeleteBetty Anon, your vote suggests you've mixed OfAT with Never Say Goodbye. Unless I've mixed them.
Anyway, my votes:
Sister P, for starting it all, and having several of the core elements of Betty greatness? Or Never Say, for breaking the mold set a decade before? Hmmm.
Never Say Goodbye
****BLOW HOT, BLOW COLD****
Fate is Remarkable
abstain, as both Tulips and End of have deeply annoying mistaken-fiancee plots
Tabitha
Oops, yes, I did get it mixed up. Now why did I do that? I know I was thinking "I always get it mixed up with Saturday's Girl I mustn't do that this time."
DeleteThanks.
Betty Anonymous
Betty Barbara here--
DeleteWell Betty van den Betsy--I like the first 3/4ths of Blow Hot, Blow Cold, but GAAKK--the big misunderstanding towards the end! I do believe that this is sordid and unworthy of the Great Betty and it just totally ruins my enjoyment of the book.
[Brief recap--Max acts as a screen so that Tineke and her old boyfriend could snog while waiting for his crazy wife to die. Oh they may say they are just talking--nudge, nudge, wink wink... And then we are supposed to be thrilled that he is now free. Ick. And Max went along with this. Sheesh].
Plus Sophy acted like a high school girl--making up a boyfriend, dodging Max,etc. She may have been a fantastic nurse, but she did get on my one nerve.
So there you have it--why this Betty voted for Once For All Time
Yes, that part is ghastly -- but if you pretend it just didn't happen, perfect book!
DeleteFrom Poland with Love (aka Never Say Goodbye)
ReplyDeleteBlow Hot, Blow Cole (dog named Blot!)
Polly (barely squeaks by, but I do love her Latin scholar-li-ness and Laura Ashley clothes)
Tulip for Augusta (or Roly and the Ripped Slacks)
Tabitha in Moonlight (for bikini AND oil stained shorts)
Most of these are no contest for me!
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Visiting Consultant
!!!Fate is Remarkable!! My all time favorite!!!
Tulips for Augusta
And, sadly, as much as I love the oil stained shorts, Never the time and the Place
I hope I get the votes in on time:
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Once for All Time
Fate is Remarkable
At the End of the Day
Never the Time and the Place--Yeah Stourhead!
Betty Adrianne