#barroness orczy

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The three layers of Sir Percy Blakney’s personality:

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Barroness Orczy writing a normal sentence about Sir Percy: How can I work in the fact that he is handsome?

‘Yes’ said Sir Percy very long-limbedly.

Orczy: Perfect. Very subtle.

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I have found that as a book’s style seeps into my vocabulary I stop being able to identify it and end up just saying ‘ooh jar cum spiff’; ‘lud, Man!’, ‘rem accu tetigisti’; ‘buggerit, millennium hand and shrimp’ and ‘righto chief!’ strait faced and without noticing. My friends think I’ve cracked, and honesty perhaps I have.

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I love the scarlet Pimpernel series, because every book it’s like a game of where’s Wally.

A dirty peasant with a hacking cough? Tall yet hunched? A wonder that a man with such a powerful frame should live in such depths of squaller?

Me (in my head): It’s him!! It’s him!!! IT IS SO HIM!!!!!!!

My Mum: why are you grinning at your book?

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And what a sad and empty book it would be!

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Me seeing a monocle: shall I think of Psmith, Sir Percy Blakerney, Von Stalhein, Bertie Wooster or Lord Peter Wimsey?

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Me reading books under the table in lessons is jolly good and all that but equally it means that when asked something like ‘how was maths?’ I generally say something like “there’s an east wind blowing Watson”; “Sir Percy got tied up again!” Or (whispered, wide eyed) Raffles died.

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“You have to fight your wallpaper”

My wallpaper:

Me:

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The scarlet pimpernel seems to have permeated every aspect of my life and mind. I have just been and bought myself a plant from the plant shop, and (it being the healthiest specimen there) held it up and said “this is the Sir Percy of plants”.

I believe a popular current slang word to say that something is nice is ‘dope’. I shall start a petition to send to the slang ministry to have it replaced with ‘Sir Percy’.

Sir Percy .adjective. Slang. Definition: of particular merit or at the peak of performance. Synonyms: tippedy top; very nice; jolly good. Examples: I’ve had an absolutely Sir Percy day. That cup of tea was Sir Percy.

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I feel that Lord Peter and Sir Percy would get on well.

Also Sam Vimes and Richard Hannay

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