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another tuesday

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I went to the Jane Austen Centre in Bath back in December so naturally there were Christmas decorations for sale in the gift shop. It was late enough that some were reduced, so naturally I had to get Elizabeth and Mr Darcy and now they both live on my shelf in my bedroom.

Elizabeth looks nice enough (slightly questionable facial expression but I choose to believe that this was her exact face when Mr Collins proposed):

But I was a cheapskate and so I ended up getting a Darcy who, put it this way, is aesthetically (and vertically) challenged...:

(I can only assume that they had already sold out of the nicer Darcy ones)

Personally I love them as a pair because Darcy would be so offended to be depicted like this. Maybe if he had been able to see such an effigy of himself then he wouldn't have been so conceited.

The only problem is that it can get a little creepy at night. I was reading in bed and I glanced up and saw this staring back at me:

Hmmm. Maybe I should hide him behind Elizabeth... or throw him in a fire...

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Dorothy Knapp photographed by Florence Vandamm for the Broadway production Fioretta, 1929. From my collection.