Word: douffet
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Lettice Douffet is a sometime actress reduced to working as a rather fanciful tour guide in an ugly and, truth to tell (which she rarely does), unimportant English mansion called Fustian House. Faced with the unpleasant fact that hardly anything consequential or colorful ever happened there, she makes things up. To her, this is putting history to the best possible use, as inspirational contrast to what she sees as the grayness of modern life. Her employers at a preservation trust naturally disagree, and she is tossed...
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