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Anthony Trollope being just about the perfect author to read in a time like this, and "The Way We Live Now" being one of the dwindling number of Trollope novels I've not yet read, I've started reading it...and therefore, about 14% of the way in, stumbled upon the following distinctly un-Trollopean snippet of dialogue;
"He is a gentleman then?"
"Certainly he is a gentleman. He took his degree at Oxford, and then became what we call a pervert"
Well, in context the meaning is thoroughly Trollopean after all, but it took me well aback at first.
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"He is a gentleman then?"
"Certainly he is a gentleman. He took his degree at Oxford, and then became what we call a pervert"
Well, in context the meaning is thoroughly Trollopean after all, but it took me well aback at first.
This entry was originally posted at https://wotw.dreamwidth.org/136109.html. Please comment there using OpenID. I'll read comments here too, but if you have a choice, I prefer them there.