emerald green:
In the autumn of 1849 Mr. and Mrs. Bracebridge, who were to spend some months in the East, again proposed that Miss [Florence] Nightingale should travel with them, and again the offer was gladly accepted. Her sister was delighted. […] The sister reported to her friends that Flo had taken tea with the Bunsens to receive the dernier mot [last word] on Egyptology, and that she was going out laden with learned books.
Flo had taken tea with the Bunsens to receive the dernier mot [last word] on Egyptology,
laden with learned books.
She well knew the power of intonation, and thought that, in the absence of the curled lip, the contemptuous twitch of the nose, and the supercilious toss of the head, her message might be acceptable for Louisa's sake,...
the offscum rascals of men
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