Julia The Apostate

Bacon, Josephine Daskam · 1961

“Young for you--_par exemple!_ I should say not,” her niece replied, perking the quivering aigrette still more obliquely upon her aunt's head. Carolyn used _par exemple_ as a good cook uses onion--a hint of it in everything. There were those who said that she interpolated it in the Litany; but Carolyn, who was born Caroline and a Baptist, was too much impressed by the liturgy of what she called The Church to insert even an uncanonized comma. “Now don't touch it, Aunt Julia, for it's deliciously chic, and if you had your way you'd flatten it down right straight in the middle--you know you would.”…

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