Monday, 3 January 2022

You will not find a word in this to offend your protestant sympathies.

[Evelyn Waugh sends the Duchess of Devonshire a copy of his Life of Monsignor Ronald Knox]

The inscription read, 'To darling Debo with love from Evelyn. You will not find a word in this to offend your protestant sympathies.' There were no words - all the pages were blank. The perfect present for a non-reader.

D. Devonshire, Wait for me (2010), 156 

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