Word: sigi
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...part of his prenatal envelope still swaddling him, and an old woman, straight out of folklore, turned up to assure the proud mother that she had brought "a great man into the world." A wandering poet confidently predicted that the "little blackamoor" (as mother Freud called her jet-haired "Sigi") would "probably become a [cabinet] minister...
...blessing all to herself for seven years, for the gallant Charles-Edouard goes off to the wars, and it is a good year or so after V-E day before he turns up in Britain again. Then he sweeps Grace, little Sigi and Nanny off to a new life in France...
...Good Meringue. Everyone adores little Sigi. When he asks to take a toy to bed, there are trills of laughter. "But this child is his father over again," gurgles lovely Albertine. "The moment he sees something pretty he wants to take it to bed with...
...little life of your own," Charles-Edouard's grandmother advises Grace, "will never be held against you [in France], so long as you always put your husband first." But Grace pines and rages, and at last takes the boat for England. "Are you divorced?" asks Sigi hopefully. "Georgie ... says it's an awfully good idea ... His Mummy and Daddy have both married again, so he's got two of each now, and he says the new ones are ... really better...
...takes Author Mitford a lot of maneuvering to outwit Sigi's determination to have at least as many fathers as Georgie. If, in the last few rounds, the Mitford inventive power shows signs of weariness, this is no doubt due to her having fought the early ones with so much carefree audacity. The Blessing is her seventh, and best, novel (runners-up: Pursuit of Love, Love in a Cold Climate), and its overall gaiety more than makes up for the fact that its British nannies, French lovers, ECA Americans, etc. are not so much fresh creations as types lifted...