Lud-in-the-Mist

by Hope Mirrlees

Dame Marigold Chanticleer

nonsensical ideas and great practical gifts are sometimes found side by side,

sentimentality is a quality that rarely has the slightest influence on action.

the ridiculous gushing...

Triple simile

when the old lady died she left her the school.

The Academy represented to the ladies of Lud all that they knew of romance. They remembered the jokes they had laughed at within its walls, the secrets they had exchanged walking up and down its pleached alleys, far more vividly than anything that had afterwards happened to them.

The ladies of Lud were never sentimental. It was as an old comic song that they remembered their school-days. Perhaps it is always with a touch of wistfulness that we remember old comic songs.

It was at any rate as near as the ladies of Lud could get to the...

Dame Marigold Cha...

Dame Dreamswe...

Haha

Simile real. See p. 17 for the Duke Aubrey’s family emblem

There were squills and ivy all over the Academy,

one of Miss Primrose Crabapple’s follies was a romantic passion for Duke Aubrey — a passion similar to that cherished by high-church spinsters of the last century for the memory of Charles I.

Haha simile historical. The narrator sticks us firmly in the world of British history.

Haha of course

She was grotesque, too, in appearance,

Aunt Sally,

Haha Simile extended. Is “aunt sally” a scarecrow, or just a type of aunt? Question Cf. The garden fair game: Aunt Sally is a traditional English game usually played in pub gardens and fairgrounds, in which players throw sticks or battens at a ball, known as a 'dolly', balanced on top of a stick; traditionally, a model of an old woman's head was sometimes used. ~ Wikipedia

poke-bonnets

the “Crabapple Blossoms.”

Haha, can’t believe it.

Haha

Prunella Chanticleer.

Penstemmon Fliperarde.

Ambrosine Pyepowders.

Moonlove Honeysuckle,

Ambrose’s wife? Question

Haha

Viola Vigil.

Polydore

Mother Tibbs,

“Bawdy Bess.”

Haha

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tall, red-haired youth, with a white pointed face and very bright eyes.

“Professor Wisp,

her most cooing treacley voice,

as cross as two sticks

Simile

Haha

Master Ambrose Honeysuckle

smoking his churchwarden

A king-stemmed clay pipe

Dame Jessamine,

with her pink-tongued mushroom-colored pug snoring and choking in her lap.

Haha

Moonlove,

The tune that never stops! Break the fiddle! Break the fiddle!

cut the strings. Cut the strings and let me out, I want the dark.”

a red liquid was trickling from the coffin.

Ewww spooky

Haha

The Senators were certainly not loved by the rabble.

eldritch shrieks