Alice At Heart
“That usage, however, is generally considered both inaccurate and ill mannered.—Lilith“Someone has taken all my clothes,” I announced, standing in a parlor of the mansion where the sisters and Barret gather for tall glasses of vodka every evening.“Those were not clothes,” Mara retorted, “they were body bags.”“We took your hair clippers, too,” Pearl confessed, looking gently distraught. “I couldn’t bear the thought of you mutilating your lovely hair anymore.”I stared at the two of them.Lilith wat...ched quietly. “You’ll find new clothing in your armoires,” she said. “But if you wish, I’ll have the old things returned.”“I don’t wish to be a charity case.”“Charity case?” Lilith straightened regally in a damask lounge, where she lay like a silver lioness, swathed in white silk and holding the finest crystal tumbler of pure, uncut vodka. “You are a Bonavendier. You have an inheritance here. You have rights. You have an image to uphold. And you’re a beautiful woman, as all true women are beautiful.”“In other words,”MoreLess
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