Tue
Sep
29
“ ‘They have accents, my dear,’ she told Amory. ‘Not Southern accents or Boston accents, not an accent attached to any locality, just accents’ — she became dreamy. ‘They pick up old, moth-eaten London accents that are down on their luck and have to be used by someone. They talk as an English butler might after several years in a Chicago grand opera company.’
F. Scott Fitzgerald. This Side of Paradise. Via.
