Before that, she'd given him several reasons why she couldn't marry him, all of which were essentially "we're too young" -- she's 15, and he just turned 16.
This is the most sensible thing she's said in the whole book.
Hey, don't worry about it. Nest full of vampires, you come get me, okay. Box full of puppies, that's more of a judgement call.
Jonathan ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'
Spike's Bitches 44: It's about the rules having changed.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
amych - Mar 18, 2009 11:20:38 am PDT #3922 of 30000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
amych - Mar 18, 2009 11:21:20 am PDT #3923 of 30000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
And they keep mentioning it as his "limb,"
This does not in any way reduce my inner conviction that he has the Syphy.
Toddson - Mar 18, 2009 11:21:22 am PDT #3924 of 30000
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I think you can get tuberculosis of a bone ... but what do I know?
I DO know that not only did the most prudish Victorians use "limb" instead of "leg", they'd put, basically, pants on piano and table legs (so they wouldn't be out in plain sight and leading people to think of people legs).
Daisy Jane - Mar 18, 2009 11:22:40 am PDT #3925 of 30000
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
omnis! Thought you might be interested in this [link]
And, yep, that Heather is me, but I really meant what I said, and not just cause I know you.
tommyrot - Mar 18, 2009 11:22:49 am PDT #3926 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
In the Onion book Our Dumb Century, there's a fake ad for some patent medicine that has a big list of all the old-time-y diseases and conditions that it cures - stuff like TB and consumption, and what-not. But my fave thing it cures is "the screaming shits."
Beverly - Mar 18, 2009 11:23:49 am PDT #3927 of 30000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
I think I've had those.
Toddson - Mar 18, 2009 11:24:23 am PDT #3928 of 30000
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
OK, I just spit water on my keyboard over this. The line under the photo.
SuziQ - Mar 18, 2009 11:25:05 am PDT #3929 of 30000
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
Shakespearian types...is Macbeth too much for a 12 year old?
Hil R. - Mar 18, 2009 11:25:16 am PDT #3930 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Herbert seems to think that what Elsie thought was "I'll marry you if Papa say it's all right, and he'll probably say no," was actually, "Yes, I'll marry you! Once I get the tiny matter of my father's permission out of the way." And Elsie isn't sure she wants to marry him, because she wants to belong to her father for a bit longer, but she's afraid that her father will pity Herbert and so say yes.
amych - Mar 18, 2009 11:25:27 am PDT #3931 of 30000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Agreed on "limb", but the skirts on table legs thing is pure urban legend -- the sort of thing where someone snarks "oh, she's so prudish she'd probably do x..." and the next person picks it up as "she actually DOES x". It is true that 19th century decorating taste tended to the extravagantly swaggy, but that's more a matter of "look how sumptuous I can afford to be in our shining new industrialized middle class!"