"Of a smooth society lady, she said, "she told enough white lies to ice a cake." And of a particularly hideous house she'd been to stay in, she said: "It was so uncomfortable – the chairs were covered in apples stuffed with lead. And in the hall, (talking presumably of the butler) "I was met by a stout rhinoceros carrying visiting-cards in one hand, and azaleas in the other.""
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Lord David Cecil, quoted in Patrick Garland, 'David As Lecturer and Critic', in David Cecil: A Portrait by his Friends (1990), p. 121
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Margot Asquith
Emma Alice Margaret Asquith, Countess of Oxford & Asquith (2 February 1864 – 28 July 1945) was a Scottish-born socialite and author, married to the British Prime Minister H. H. Asquith.
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