Lulu's book: Paragon Walk

This month I'm reading Anne Perry's Paragon Walk, more for enjoyment than anything else. I'm very happy to find that this is the first book for a long while that has caught my attention and kept it (actually, besides the scriptures). There's a hilarious character, Aunt Vespasia, a rather assertive/straightforward/honest older woman, and some of her thoughts made me laugh out loud. I had to post them.

"She had missed some of the conversation. Hope to heavens she was not becoming deaf! She could not bear to be deaf. Not to hear what people were saying would be worse than being buried alive!" (p.37)

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"The only other diversion was the rivalry between Jessamyn and Selena as to who should attract the beautiful Frenchman, and so far neither of them had made any progress that she had heard about. And she would have heard. What was the point in making a conquest if one could not tell everybody about it, preferably one by one and in the strictest confidences? Success without envy was like snails without sauce--and, as any cultivated woman knew, the sauce is everything!" (p.39)