E. F. Benson

Name: A Double Misfit
Author: E. F. Benson

A Double Misfit (1905)

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“A Double Misfit”, published in 1905, is a work by E. F. Benson. It explores elements such as Rossington, Maisie and Lady Mildred.

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E. F. Benson, A Double Misfit (1905)

“ Lady Mildred drew her chair closer to the fire, for the night was cold, and took off her pince-nez. She was expensively but rather shabbily dressed—that is to say, her clothes had once been admirable.
"Yes, dreadfully," she said; "but I always was frightened of servants. It will be quite different with you, Maisie. In ten days you will put your nose in the air—it always is rather in the air, dear—and be quite unconscious of them, as if you had been born and bred to it. I have always said that it was your metier to make other people stand in subordinate positions." ”

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E. F. Benson, A Double Misfit (1905)

“ In the lightest conversation even she never assented to anything she did not agree with.
"Yes, just that," she said.
"Dear Agincourta!" cried Maisie, with effusive pity. "I know. We seem inexplicable to each other," she said, "and that is one of the reasons why we get on so well. Let's see. Oh, yes! my class—that is an odious expression, but what is one to say? my class seems to me, as a whole, without interests, and therefore uninteresting."
"You wrong them," said Lady Mildred; "they are charming! You have proved you think so by your engagement to Percy Royston. ”

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E. F. Benson, A Double Misfit (1905)

“ He had turned over the leaves of her music when she had sung, upsetting a candle, and—almost more convincing than all—he had gleefully, at her request, engaged in cock-fighting with an undergraduate on the hearthrug. Through all the light comedy of the evening had wailed the low note of tragedy; Maisie, so Mildred felt certain, was dancing on his heart, utterly unconscious of that which lay beneath her heedless feet.
Lady Mildred drew her chair a little closer to the fire and played with the hand-screen which she held between the glow and her face. ”

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E. F. Benson, A Double Misfit (1905)

“ Rossington was a man of singular but quiet impressiveness, handsome, and aged, except in years, with the dignity which habitual aloofness from the jostle and froth of life gradually confers on those who give their lives to study rather than enjoy or even observe the more human phenomena of existence. ”

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E. F. Benson, A Double Misfit (1905)

“ Percy's only twenty-four, you know."
Lady Mildred looked fixedly at the fire a moment.
"Oh, Maisie! fancy you, with all these people about and living here, wanting to change!" she said. "Yes, Mr. Rossington always seems to me a really cultured man. He has nice manners, too; and then, of course, he is the authority on Greek sculpture. It will be delightful being next him."
"Oh! we're the greatest friends," said Maisie. "Good gracious! it's half-past seven, and I must fly. There are all the cards to put in people's places. ”

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E. F. Benson, A Double Misfit (1905)

“ They shoot well, or they are athletic or handsome, and have money, but, but——"
Maisie laughed.
"I'm sure from your point of view that describes Percy exactly," she said. "He is all that. Now answer me truly, because you do know him. Don't you think he is just handsome and rich and athletic, and nothing else whatever? Perhaps you don't even think him handsome. You see, I love him so much, I don't care what anybody else thinks, not even what you think, dear Agincourta."
Lady Mildred shuffled her large feet on the fender and brought down a sounding cataract of fire-irons. ”

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E. F. Benson, A Double Misfit (1905)

“ Oh, yes! Percy was in the class, too—don't be so sly, dear!—but quite apart from him. And when I go a-revolving in 'upper succles,' I shall continue to take in the Hellenic Journal. And the Professor is a great friend of mine; he's an old darling!"
"Professor who?" asked Mildred.
"Professor Rossington. Why?"
"Nothing. I know him well. He is charming, is he not?"
Maisie looked at her friend a moment with a glance that, developed, might have become what is known as a questioning glance. In her case it did not get so far. ”

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E. F. Benson, A Double Misfit (1905)

“ The longest-living author of this work died in 1940, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 83 years or less. This work may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works. ”

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