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In the churchyard, sitting Indian-style in the freshly mown grass, Madeleine’s “friend” Mitchell Grammaticus was indeed there.
As she watched him, in his old man’s clothes, engaging Alton and Phyllida in conversation, Madeleine thought to herself, as she’d thought many times before, that Mitchell was the kind of smart, sane, parent-pleasing boy she should fall in love with and marry.
She’d become an English major for the purest and dullest of reasons: because she loved to read.
“English 274: Lyly’s Euphues”
“English 450A: Hawthorne and James”
She’d read H. M. Pulham, Esquire by John P. Marquand.
The Marriage Plot: Selected Novels of Austen, Eliot, and James.
Of Grammatology,
Victorian Fantasy: From Phantastes to The Water-Babies,
Like, if I tell you that my name is Thurston Meems and that I grew up in Stamford,
Leonard didn’t make another comment. During the rest of the class, he leaned back in his chair, stretching out his long legs. After he finished his coffee, he dug into his right snowmobile boot and, to Madeleine’s surprise, pulled out a tin of chewing tobacco. With two stained fingers, he placed a wad of tobacco in his cheek. For the next two hours, every minute or so, he spat, discreetly but audibly, into the cup.
The Crying of Lot 49?)
A Sorrow Beyond Dreams.
Maddy’s next boyfriend wasn’t strictly her fault. She would never have met Dabney Carlisle if she hadn’t taken an acting class, and she would never have taken an acting class if it hadn’t been for her mother.
Mitchell had encountered shabby gentility before, but here was Wasp thrift in its purest form.
