The Flower Beneath the Foot - Ronald Firbank

This is a great idea for a group. I'm always coming across great lines but all I do is pencil mark them. This funny one is from an indescribably entertaining but very odd novel. Mademoiselle de Nazianzi is saying her prayers.

“Oh! help me, heaven,” she prayed, “to be decorative and to do right! Let me always look young, never more than sixteen or seventeen–at the very outside, and let Yousef love me – as much as I do him. And I thank you for creating such a darling, God (for he’s a perfect dear), and I can’t tell you how much I love him; especially when he wags it! I mean his tongue…Bless all the sisters at the Flaming-Hood–above all Sister Ursula…and be sweet, besides, to old Jane…Show me the straight path! And keep me ever free from the malicious scandal of the Court. Amen.”

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Cori
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Thanks for joining. The pencil marks in all my books are exactly the reason I started the group. :)

I think I might add the Flower Beneath the Foot to my "To Be Read" list. :)

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