Elizabeth von Arnim Quotes

She did not like her name. It was a mean, small name, with a kind of facetious twist, she thought, about its end like the upward curve of a pug dog's tail.

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• She did not like her name. It was a mean, small name, with a kind of facetious twist, she thought, about its end like the upward curve of a pug dog's tail.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
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  • Tail
  • Twist