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Sarah did indeed reign at court as Groom of the Stole, Mistress of the Robes, Keeper of the Privy Purse. Soon, Arnie's entourage swarmed with Sarah's relations, including cousin Abigail Hill, a penniless gentlewoman who had sunk to the role of "dust broom" (as Sarah put it) to a titled lady. What happened next seems, as Author Kronenberger says, "too much in the flashy traditions of the theater to have happened in real life." Slowly, week by week, Abigail, the dowdy waif, replaced Sarah as the dowdy Queen's bosom friend-largely because Sarah...
...only fly in the ointment is 16-year-old Joss, senior daughter of the Greys. She and Eliot get the trembles whenever they brush shoulders-and Mlle. Zizi, a jealous old gentlewoman of at least 30, is beginning to brandish her falsies. Three-quarters of the way through her bee-loud glade, Author Godden starts dropping her surprises. Eliot, it seems, is no English gentleman after all: he is an international crook who, as a French paper prettily puts it, "collects precious stones, chiefly diamonds." As for Paul, he climbs up to Joss's bedroom and is about...
...Chinese models. No such inhibitions bothered Sin Yun-pok (see overleaf), whose sumptuous scenes were often shocking to his contemporaries. One such scene of a kisaeng (geisha) party, with dancing girls performing on mats out of doors to the music of the hatted orchestra, is something no Korean gentlewoman could have witnessed. But to Westerners, it gives an intimate view of Korean gentry, alive with the delights and pleasures of their peaceful 18th century life...
...gentlewoman, or gentle girl, would either be shocked and run away. Or she would be hardened, which is the worse evil...
Britain's old King Coel, a Roman puppet of the 3rd Century, may have been a merry old soul, but his daughter Helena was a sober young gentlewoman. She made a proper marriage to the Roman Emperor Constantius Chlorus, and bore him a son who became Constantine the Great. After Constantine had accepted Christianity, the Empress Dowager Helena-by that time a doughty dame of 80 or so-undertook the arduous pilgrimage to Jerusalem. While there, she discovered in an abandoned cistern two baulks of timber which a great part of the Christian world has ever since accepted...