Wednesday, August 17, 2016

Wait for Me!-- Americans

A continuing series of Neels-ian excerpts from the autobiography ("Wait for Me!") of Deborah Mitford, Duchess of Devonshire:

Swinbrook was let to Sir Charles Hambro and Rutland Gate to Mrs. Warren Pearl, an American who annoyed my mother by painting everything, including the floors, green...

I will bet good money that Mrs. Pearl had an awful laugh and made her money in sewage pipes or something equally ill-bred. 
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  1. AnonymousAugust 18, 2016 at 9:41 AM

    26, Rutland Gate, the family mansion in London.

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    1. AnonymousAugust 18, 2016 at 9:43 AM

      I would have been annoyed, too. ;o)

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    2. KeiraAugust 18, 2016 at 11:58 AM

      It looks so lovely--like it could never have been host to violent green all over everything!

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