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claire wrote: |
but Joey shouldn't have called Grizel (a member of staff) child FIRST. But that doesn't get commented on |
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Elsie turned scarlet, and Joey smiled in a superior way. ‘You’ll like it all right when you get there, my child. Going errands when you’re camping and going errands ordinarily are two very different things.’ |
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‘Lazy object!’ laughed Jo, as she got to her feet. ‘Being engaged is not improving you, my child. It will be my painful duty to write to Donal and lecture him on spoiling you—I can see that!’ |
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Jo filled her mug and set down the big enamelled jug, in which the coffee had been put, before replying. Then she fixed Grizel with her eyes, and grinned as she said, ‘Example is better than precept, my child. Likewise, practise what you preach. It’s up to you!’ |
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She got no satisfaction, however. Grizel merely hunched herself into a more comfortable position before she murmured, ‘It’s too hot to argue. Go and sit down, child, before you spill that coffee.’ |
Karry wrote: |
I agree that there is a difference in the way it is used, I see Joey using the phrase in the same way as "mon enfant", an affectionate term, where as grizzle uses it very much as a term of put down! |
Mel wrote: |
Was Grace there as well? |
Jennie wrote: |
She's lofty and overbearing with the younger ones, speaking to them as
if they're idiotic young children and generally assuming an air of
wisdom that she doesn't possess. She is irritating in her manner to the older people, especially Juliet and Grizel, whose status as members of staff as well as their seniority in the Guides meant that she should have watched what she said to them and how she said it. |
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