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Updated: June 22, 2025
Bessie had taken to the sofa that mid-Victorian sanctuary for the afflicted fair and encouraged by the sympathy of the faithful servant, must begin to cry, must begin to laugh, must go on to screaming and pommelling the horsehair with her heels, as was her custom when moved.
In the eyes of young men she sunned herself taking her ease, since these are slow to criticize, swift to believe between eighteen and eight-and-twenty, that is. We speak of the mid-Victorian era and then obtaining masculine strain. Misgivings continued to pursue her during the ensuing evening and even interfered with her slumbers during the night. This most unusual occurrence rendered her fretful.
They are kind, charitable, and patronizing, and expect gratitude and subservience in return. As a mid-Victorian writer puts it: "What one wants to see is a kind and cordial condescension on the one side, and an equally cordial but still respectful devotedness on the other." But these are voices from a time that has passed. Democracy has many a fight before it.
These tables were high enough for the ordinary chairs. All the foreign houses are very ugly in style but very comfortable and mid-Victorian. The Baroness urged us to eat special cakes and we left stuffed. One kind is in the form of a beautiful pink leaf wrapped in a cherry leaf which has been preserved from last year.
Some ineradicable belief in things as they have always been had preserved them from the aesthetic derangement of the Mid-Victorian taste; and in standing for what was old, they had stood, inadvertently but courageously, for what was excellent.
Now it happened that her friend was one of those cats with huge tufts of soft hair on the two sides of her face; a cat of that type, which is not uncommon, has a quaint resemblance to a Mid-Victorian gentleman with a pair of magnificent side-whiskers of a silky softness covering both cheeks and flowing down like a double beard.
As for her, Ruth announced, she was going to be mid-Victorian just as soon as she could find a hair-locket, silk mitts, and an elderly female tortoise-shell cat with an instinctive sense of delicacy.
Would it not be almost a duty to preserve this house like Carlyle's and put up a tablet, and show it? "Specimen of mid-Victorian abode entrance, one shilling, with catalogue." After all, it was the completest thing, and perhaps the deadest in the London of to-day.
Time after time, for eighteen months, I made my regular trips into hell into a hell more revolting than mid-Victorian evangelists ever pictured to spellbound, quaking sinners.
Then, turning the handle, she walked into what was still called the schoolroom, though Timmy never did his lessons there. Betty Tosswill, the eldest of John Tosswill's three daughters, was sitting at a big mid-Victorian writing-table, examining the house-books. She had just discovered two "mistakes" in the milkman's account, and she felt perhaps unreasonably sorry and annoyed.
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