November 28, 2008

CHAPERONES


Can a gossip be considered a lady? One would imagine not. One would also imagine that she lives in a solid well-repaired square brown stone house situated on a bleak hill so that nothing impedes her view and that of her two pets, a magpie and a jackal. And the business in life of all three of them is to track down and destroy the good name of every woman who comes within range, especially if she is young and pretty—and unchaperoned!

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