Pure Dawn Powell: THE WICKED PAVILION

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She said this as if the Baron was a wool hat she'd given away
not knowing a blizzard was coming.

From Elsie, Jerry got the general impression that the best
Bostonians rattled their family skeletons at each other
as proudly as Texans flashed their jumbo diamonds.
She concluded that Elsie's whimsicalities 
were proof that the Hookleys 
were gloriously rich.

 DAWN POWELL
THE WICKED PAVILION 

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