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But over against the world Miss Miniver assembled a small but energetic minority, the Children of Light people she described as "being in the van," or "altogether in the van," about whom Ann Veronica's mind was disposed to be more sceptical.
And Miss Miniver fell discussing whether Goopes or Bernard Shaw or Tolstoy or Doctor Tumpany or Wilkins the author had the more powerful and perfect mind in existence at the present time. She was clear there were no other minds like them in all the world. Part 4
I see so many cocks with hens' feathers now-a-days sweet-scented Cavaliers, who could no more draw a trigger than they could mount the moon, that I think Hugh Dalton must line the Fire-fly with miniver to bring them safely over. A murrain take such fellows! say I close-mouthed, long-eared scoundrels. D n it! I love a frank heart " "And a bloody hand, Master Roupall." "Stuff! stuff!
Ann Veronica sat with her chin on her hand, red-lit and saying little, and Miss Miniver discoursed. As she talked, the drift and significance of what she was saying shaped itself slowly to Ann Veronica's apprehension. It presented itself in the likeness of a great, gray, dull world a brutal, superstitious, confused, and wrong-headed world, that hurt people and limited people unaccountably.
If any one will take the trouble to consult Perrault's Cendrillon in the original French, he or she will find that Cinderella went to the ball with her feet encased in "des pantoufles de vair." Now, vair means grey or white fur, ermine or miniver. The word is now obsolete, though it still survives in heraldry.
Here was his chief point of sympathy with the housemother, who, herself precluded from wearing miniver, velvet, or pearls, longed to deck her niece therewith, in time to receive Sir Kasimir of Adlerstein Wildschloss, as he had promised to meet his godsons at Ulm.
And among human beings, too, women to begin with were the rulers and leaders; they owned all the property, they invented all the arts. "The primitive government was the Matriarchate. The Matriarchate! The Lords of Creation just ran about and did what they were told." "But is that really so?" said Ann Veronica. "It has been proved," said Miss Miniver, and added, "by American professors."
His hand was pledged, and he must fulfil his promise now that we have him." "Was it troth? I cannot remember it," said Grisell. "That matters not. Your father's plight is the same thing. His father was slain in the battle, so 'tis between him and us. Put on thy best clothes as fast as may be. Thou shalt have my wedding-veil and miniver mantle. Speed, I say.
On the walls were notice-boards bearing clusters of newspaper slips, three or four big posters of monster meetings, one of which Ann Veronica had attended with Miss Miniver, and a series of announcements in purple copying-ink, and in one corner was a pile of banners.
"Could not they fetch a few ermine and miniver skins while they are at it," suggested Priscilla. "Methinks in this wilderness we women might at least solace ourselves with the show of royalty, sith we are too far from the throne to have our right disputed." "Who knows but that we may found a new kingdom here in the New World," replied John Alden playfully.
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