Edgar Jepson,
Lady Noggs, Peeress — 5. The Lady Noggs Receives an Invitation
(1905)
“ In a somewhat halting and uneasy fashion the Prime Minister said, "I have an invitation for you, Felicia. The Princess of Meiningen-Schwerin has written to ask you to go to live with her little daughter at Catford Palace." "Me!" cried the Lady Noggs with the liveliest disgust. "Me go and live with a princess! I won't do anything so horrid! I'm sure she's a stuffy old thing!" ”
Edgar Jepson,
Lady Noggs, Peeress — 5. The Lady Noggs Receives an Invitation
(1905)
“ Borrodaile. "But uncle?" said the Lady Noggs. "Wouldn't it harm him? I mustn't do that." "Not a bit," said Mr. Borrodaile cheerfully. "He has accepted the invitation, and sent you. What more can he do? If the princess finds you an unsuitable inhabitant of her quiet suburban palace, and too unlucky in the matter of getting into scrapes to make a good companion for her daughter, that has nothing to do with your uncle. The mistake is the princess's." ”
Edgar Jepson,
Lady Noggs, Peeress — 5. The Lady Noggs Receives an Invitation
(1905)
“ She ought to have been pleased by this improvement in his spirits, but she found herself quite unable to display any sympathetic joy at it. She had no wish in the world that he should perceive this lack of sympathy, but it would seem that he did. For they were strolling in the garden after dinner, when he said: "I see that you're both surprised and disgusted at my being so cheerful when I must so soon be bereft of the light of your presence." ”
