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...Gaye Oldaker cannot bring himself to marry ex-Madam Tacey. When the respectable ladies of Bisbee discover Tacey's history and unmarried status, they furiously confiscate Nugget and Seely, settle them in respectable Bisbee homes. Lover Gaye is too weak to fight for his "family," too ambitious not to rise to the top in Arizona politics once he has discarded the unpopular Tacey. The ironic result of the family split is that young Seely suffers torments in the strange hands of "nice" people, grows up to be virtually a high-class prostitute. At the end of the book Nugget...
...Raphaelite was Painter John Everett Millais. At ten, he used to clap "old daddy" familiarly on the back. "Dear creatures," he would say tolerantly of his parents. At this tender age John Everett's mother took her artistically precocious son to see the president of the Royal Academy. "Madam," said the president, "you had better make him a chimney sweep." Then he looked at John's drawings. "Madam," said the president, "it is your duty to bring the boy up to art." At twelve, John Everett won the Royal Academy's gold medal. As he tripped before...
...bric-a-brac. . . . The heat becomes oppressive; only the darkened room is bearable." Before his eyes swam Beatonesque visions: "Prince Mohammed Ali, heir to the throne and cousin of King Farouk I ... in his tarboosh, morning coat and sponge-bag trousers, with an enormous emerald on one finger." . . . Madam Fouad El Manasterly at soirées in her garden overlooking the Nile. "The glitter of the Turkish standard candelabra and the white-draped musicians in the boats below the window create a romantic effect. They say that Moses was hidden in the bulrushes here...
...bath." She moved on to the furniture store. "Good morning, Your Majesty," said the furniture-store man. The Queen priced linoleum, bought an inexpensive grade. It was for the bathroom floor; her granddaughters had been splashing it with water. She moved on to the grocer's. "Good morning, Madam," said the grocer. The Queen bought some soap and some washing flakes. Then she departed as she had come, in a big armored car, a carload of guards in front, another behind...
...When Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke became England's Secretary of State the madam of a London bawdy house exclaimed: "Five thousand a year, my girls...