clemenceaus

Updated: May 17, 2025

Even the Nottingham lace curtains at the second-story windows seemed akin, although they varied from the stiff, immaculate, well-darned lengths that adorned the rooms where the Clemenceaus grandmother, daughter and granddaughter, and direct descendants of the Comte de Moran were genteelly starving to death, to the soft, filthy, torn strips that finished off the parlor of the noisy, cheerful, irrepressible Daleys' once-pretentious home.

Kathleen Thompson Norris - Saturday's Child