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"I knew," said Jean, "that it would be something very twopence-coloured." "It's not, I grant, such a jolly name as yours," said Lord Bidborough "Jean Jardine." "Oh, mine is Penny-plain," said Jean hurriedly. "Must we always call you Lord?" Mhor asked. "Of course you must," Jean said. "Really, Mhor, you and Jock are sometimes very stupid." "Indeed you must not," said Lord Bidborough.
And it must be owned that even before the "twopence-coloured" gentry came among us from distant parts, we, the natives, had been side-tracking from the exclusive use of the old-fashioned sombre flies into the occasional use of gayer yet still modest "fancies."
Is that what you aspire to be, that twopence-coloured edition of yourself? Heaven defend you from your desires! Yet there was a singular fascination in writing the book; to be in anticipation my own sympathetic historian, to joy with my joys yet to come, and sorrow with my sorrows, to bear disaster like a man, and at last to close my own dear eyes, and with a swelling heart write my own epitaph.
This jumble which seems so curious nowadays of delight in piety and delight in twopence-coloured mischiefs came as a glorious novelty and respite to the oppressed race of Victorians.
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