Beverly Cleary, Sister of the Bride (1963).
There’s an occasional kiss in the Cleary First Love series, but nothing else like Gramma’s comment. I imagine that it prompted any number of young readers to look up roguishly , make a puzzled face, and keep reading.
Like Lady Elaine Fairchild’s “Here it is, my lovely can”, Gramma’s comment is a naughty speck in a chaste fictional universe.
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Thursday, July 14, 2016
Roguish Gramma
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Wow! Zingy!
P.S. Maybe Gramma meant to sa, " “Living together oscillates between the tone of practical serenity and tragic pathos, between philosophical wisdom and desperate anguish.”
With all that oscillating, it'd be hard to settle down.
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