Swooningis different from fainting, with Fainting you just pass out and hit the floor.
With swooning, you get chance to flutter your hands in your face, lay one hand,palm facing forwards, against your forehead and then fall gracefully onto a chaise longue.
(With swooning, you get chance to flutter your hands in your face, lay one hand,palm facing forwards, against your forehead and then fall gracefully onto a chaise longue.
bovine I'm so old, even my old is old,
Tue 18 Feb 2003, 10:42,
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it's such a shamethat it has become one of those lost arts
( gracielou,
Tue 18 Feb 2003, 10:43,
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if we started wearingcorsets again then we'd be swooning left, right and centre
( butchbint,
Tue 18 Feb 2003, 10:44,
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you'd have to carry round a lacy hankyat all times as well, which you can drop as you walk by, smiliing coyly
( new_matt,
Tue 18 Feb 2003, 10:48,
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we'd probably better stop having opinions toothey can be so dangerous for a young lady.
( butchbint,
Tue 18 Feb 2003, 10:51,
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so truelets go and sit quietly in the drawing room while the men have brandy and cigars in the library. They might be talking politics, and you know how that just confuses us and makes us worry.
( gracielou,
Tue 18 Feb 2003, 10:55,
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Yes,and say things like 'why, Mr.Ludloe, what would father say.'
Right, I think it might be time for a 'Bronte' day.
(Right, I think it might be time for a 'Bronte' day.
bovine I'm so old, even my old is old,
Tue 18 Feb 2003, 10:52,
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you're all have to go riding horses across the moorand my young sister will run off with that unsuitable chap from the Army.
( butchbint,
Tue 18 Feb 2003, 11:07,
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oohis my name ok, I've never, erm, actualy read bronte, and I'm american.
( gracielou,
Tue 18 Feb 2003, 11:08,
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PerfectYou can be the American with the mysterious past who has come to England. We true aristocrats will probably look down our noses at you as we doubt that your title is real. You'll end up marrying the best bloke though.
( butchbint,
Tue 18 Feb 2003, 11:11,
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awwI wanted to be the govorness who gets the secret inheritance. (as long as someone rips my bodice open, I'll be pretty happy though.)
( gracielou,
Tue 18 Feb 2003, 11:14,
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you couldn't possibly be a governess if you're a countess!My sense of social customs has been grossly offended!
( butchbint,
Tue 18 Feb 2003, 11:18,
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I couldn't possibly spell it either.I'm only here as a governess because I don't know that my real father, the count, is on his deathbed. Hence the pending inheritance.
edit: would that be more acceptable?
(edit: would that be more acceptable?
gracielou,
Tue 18 Feb 2003, 11:21,
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Your name,is fine it means you have considerable qualities that make you highly desirable to Horse boot wearing cads like myself.
Money and titles, mainly, not to mention your large assets.
(Money and titles, mainly, not to mention your large assets.
bovine I'm so old, even my old is old,
Tue 18 Feb 2003, 11:13,
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hehe, you said both "tit" and "ass"/resumes character
( gracielou,
Tue 18 Feb 2003, 11:16,
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I think they should bringit back, along with the use of fans.
I can just see the local nightclub full of girls, giggling behind their fans and making soulful eyes at a young chap.
Gentler days.
(I can just see the local nightclub full of girls, giggling behind their fans and making soulful eyes at a young chap.
Gentler days.
bovine I'm so old, even my old is old,
Tue 18 Feb 2003, 10:46,
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thus speaksthe voice of experience :)
Me, I simply get a nosebleed in intensely romantic situations.
(Me, I simply get a nosebleed in intensely romantic situations.
brainstuff can eat a whole shredded wheat,
Tue 18 Feb 2003, 10:45,
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i could do with an intensely romantic situationi've got a lot of pent up romance
( new_matt,
Tue 18 Feb 2003, 10:47,
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