| Friday 11 September 1942 |
[Dec. 15th, 2007|09:51 am] |
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I suppose Nat is right. Sometimes Patty says things like that because she's jealous, but she is my best friend. I'm going to listen to her and Nat. I don't want to wind up penniless. Exactly the opposite!
The really dumb thing about Ianthe is that we get our money by marrying. And the way she acts, everyone thinks she doesn't want to. Maybe she is good at magic, but what good will that do her? A salary? |
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| Wednesday 9 September 1942 |
[Oct. 5th, 2007|10:04 am] |
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It sounds like Thea finally had a chance to show Miss Popescu what's what this morning! And Miriam Moon. They all went hunting for Giselle Garnier, the Pelbians weren't even taking it seriously that she was missing. And this is after Claire disappeared just yesterday and got killed! It's a good thing for them that our prefects are going to be proctoring theirs. Even Ianthe probably wouldn't actually lose a student.
Of course, I don't know that they found her yet, but if they do it will probably all be down to Thea. She knows the castle really well, a lot better than people like Jenica Popescu think. And she takes really good care of her girls, better than Ianthe and better than Miss Marvell too. |
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| Tuesday 8 September 1942 |
[Aug. 15th, 2007|01:07 pm] |
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| | incredulous | ] |
Well! Thea gave Miss Corisande Walsingham a lovely birthday party yesterday. Trust Thea to be a better prefect than Ianthe was last year. I heard that Ianthe likes Loveday better than she likes the girls in her own class and everyone can tell because she outright favours her. It's hardly a surprise I suppose, since Loveday is the daughter of a traitor and has nothing to her name (actually, she doesn't even have her name, really) and is already throwing herself at Florian Leffoy who is too young to know better. Yet! They're both going to end up just like her, no wonder she favours them over her own nice girls, or girls like Cori and Lavvy.
It's good that Thea is already Looking After Cori too, because Cori is very womanly and might end up being led astray without good examples to follow. I don't know what Chattox was thinking letting first year girls be exposed to someone like Ianthe last year. But then again, I suppose they're all as bad as each other in sixth year. Rosier is nearly as bad as Ianthe, and so is Malaspina. Thank goodness the fifth year girls have Thea and Miss Warrington; they're not all like stupid Dolloway or slaggy Goulston. Malaspina's being taken out of school. I heard some leadheads whispering that it's because she's expecting, idiots. How mundane can you get? We don't need to fear pregnancy as an incentive to keep ourselves pure. We do it so we can respect ourselves.
I haven't heard from Nat since he visited. Probably Ianthe has; she's tricked him just like she tricks everyone, thinking the rules don't apply to her. She's not as smart as she thinks she is. |
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| Friday 4 September 1942 |
[May. 4th, 2007|09:01 am] |
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| |  frustrated | ] |
I really really really really wanted Nat to see how awful Ianthe's become, but you know, I think in some ways he's just as bad himself. Boys are different from girls, true, but you'd think he'd want to save his own sisters from infamy.
But Nat came up to school and we took tea with him and Ianthe and a girl who doesn't even speak English. And awful Jeannot, the one who isn't dead, came too! (He is the heir now, but I don't like him any more than when he wasn't.) And Nat didn't even care that Ianthe is all over Jeannot even though there isn't so much as talk of an engagement, and they both joked with him about abusing their prefect positions and he didn't say a word. The foreign girl is maybe Nat's own girl, or more likely seduced him; she was just like Ianthe. I hope he can get clear of her.
Ianthe hasn't done a thing about helping me find a boy, even though she knows perfectly well she has to. My parents still care about her reputation, even if Nat doesn't. Patty and Claudia and some others and I played cards with Mr Garnier, who is very cute and who is going to be Lord Garnier someday. And I think he likes me! Patty says she wants to talk to me about that. I hope she isn't just jealous. |
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| 1 September 1942 |
[Dec. 21st, 2006|07:47 am] |
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| | excited | ] |
Hooray it's the beginning of school today. I wish I wasn't in the same House as Ianthe the Slag, but it's her that ought to move. Getting a Reputation as a giant slag and not wanting to marry into a respectable family and be well-connected and help her husband spend her dowry; how is that anything other than stupid and selfish? She should be a Caerleon.
But even in Avalon and even if she's a prefect we hardly have to have anything to do with each other. Instead I'll be back in the same room as Patty! Even if she does talk about Celerity Warrington a lot. Celerity is nice enough and very pretty and smart, but I think we have a lot more to get from associating with Miss Vieira, with her nice Beau who is clearly going places. She is much older than us, but she's so sweet and she and Jessica Walsingham are lovely to us if we do them little favours. Celerity can't even choose a beau herself and look how that turned out: her parents picked that slag Dashwood, who doesn't even like girls and who is so embarrassing about that horrible Kyteler whose sister was such a bitch. The more I think about it, the more I think that Ianthe is definitely right about one thing (ONLY ONE): we have to choose our own husbands.
School is going to be wonderful this year. As long as Ianthe keeps her promise. And if she doesn't, well, so much the worse for her, because she'll be the one who is married off to some dreadful man. |
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