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Margaret Mary Julia Devlin , known as Daisy Ashford, was an English writer who is most famous for writing The Young Visiters, a novella concerning the upper class society of late 19th century England, when she was just nine years old. The novella was published in 1919, preserving her juvenile spelling and punctuation. She wrote the title as "Viseters" in her manuscript, but it was published as "Visiters". Wikipedia  

✵ 7. April 1881 – 15. Januar 1972
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“You look rarther rash my dear your colors dont quite match your face.”

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Chapter 2 http://books.google.com/books?id=bfwsAAAAIAAJ&q=%22You+look+rarther+rash+my+dear+your+colors+dont+quite+match+your+face%22&pg=PA28#v=onepage
The Young Visiters (1919)

“Ethel patted her hair and looked very sneery.”

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Quelle: The Young Visiters (1919), Chapter 8

“I am parshial to ladies if they are nice I suppose it is my nature. I am not quite a gentleman but you would hardly notice it but cant be helped anyhow.”

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Quelle: The Young Visiters (1919), Chapter 1

“I am very fond of fresh air and royalties.”

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Quelle: The Young Visiters (1919), Chapter 5

“Ethel and Bernard returned from their Honymoon with a son and hair a nice fat baby called Ignatius Bernard. They soon had six more children four boys and three girls and some of them were twins which was very exciting. The Earl only got two rarther sickly girls called Helen and Marie because the last one looked slightly french.”

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Quelle: The Young Visiters (1919), Chapter 12

“Mr. Salteena was an elderly man of 42 and was fond of asking peaple to stay with him.”

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Quelle: The Young Visiters (1919), Chapter 1

“Ethel was calm but she felt excited inside. Bernard has a big house said Mr S. gazing at Ethel he is inclined to be rich.”

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Quelle: The Young Visiters (1919), Chapter 2

“Her name was called Lady Helena Herring and her age was 25 and she mated well with the earl.”

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Quelle: The Young Visiters (1919), Chapter 12

“The bearer of this letter is an old friend of mine not quite the right side of the blanket as they say in fact he is the son of a first rate butcher but his mother was a decent family called Hyssopps of the Glen so you see he is not so bad and is desireus of being the correct article.”

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Quelle: The Young Visiters (1919), Chapter 5

“My life will be sour grapes and ashes without you.”

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Quelle: The Young Visiters (1919), Chapter 8

“I shall wear my best black and my white alpacka coat to keep off the dust and flies replied Mr Salteena.
I shall put some red ruge on my face said Ethel because I am very pale owing to the drains in this house.”

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Quelle: The Young Visiters (1919), Chapter 2

“Bernard always had a few prayers in the hall and some whiskey afterwards as he was rarther pious but Mr Salteena was not very adicted to prayers so he marched up to bed.”

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Quelle: The Young Visiters (1919), Chapter 3

“Oh I see said the Earl but my own idear is that these things are as piffle before the wind.”

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Quelle: The Young Visiters (1919), Chapter 5

“My own room is next the bath room said Bernard it is decerated dark red as I have somber tastes. The bath room has got a tip up bason and a hose thing for washing your head.”

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Quelle: The Young Visiters (1919), Chapter 2

“He moved away to the next picture. It was of a man with a fat smiley face and a red ribbon round him and a lot of medals. My great uncle Ambrose Fudge said Bernard carelessly.
He looks a thourough ancester said Ethel kindly.
Well he was said Bernard in a proud tone he was really the Sinister son of Queen Victoria.
Not really cried Ethel in excited tones but what does that mean.
Well I dont quite know said Bernard Clark it puzzles me very much but ancesters do turn quear at times.”

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Quelle: The Young Visiters (1919), Chapter 3

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