Have YOU Been Invited to Pep and Laurin's Wedding?

I TRIED to warn you to keep it low profile. Jak was just a code for check your notecards before this all gets out of hand. But noooo, you had to go and summon the messengers and the press and the florists and now look at this mess. Honestly. I don't think there is a convent capable of holding them, and I am beginning to wonder if Switzerland is up to the job.

You may need to call in Lindal.

note to Governess: Request the Caledonian Navy be put at your disposal in case an emergency arises with these two young ladies. You will of course need to watch them every single moment, even if the officers claim to be gentlemen. As you are learning, these two are temptresses. And don't be deceived by the steely eyed one, her methods are just more discreet. Watch her or before you know it the Convent will need another wing added to the plans.

And girls! Shouldn't you two be working on your penmanship or cleaning your fountain pens or something rather than squabbling in public?

A penchant for folly and exuberance are my best traits. No AVDNA test required for you.

She is getting a stern Governess and a cross Latin teacher from Wales, just like you. We are still sorting out the other details, but I am leaning towards Switzerland and progress reports from Lindal.

All I can say is, "Hello Sailor"

I know a bloke who was in the navy (now he is a drummer). Really funny and he has this saying which I wish to share with you:

"It's rum, bum and concertina on board but wine, women and song on shore"

Also rather uncannily you have hit on something I really do collect in real - fountain pens. I presently have 54 different pens, including some vintage ones. I love gloating ver them and they really impress people when I pull one out of my bag.

I know a really top-notch finishing school in London UK. Can we go there instead? Or one that is focussed on performing arts? That's on teh outskirts. So that we can be useful? Fees are suitably high.
Can I have my own car? I will need an allowance. I will also need some serious clothes expenditures. Do I get my own credit cards on you and daddy's billing address? There are also school trips - Gstaad for instance. I'm gonna need some serious cash. Seriously, you won't regret it. In my case I will be a gem in your crown. Scylla on other hand may very well have to be treated to many disciplinary actions. As her older sister, I can honestly say her bolshy attitude is embarrassing when I try and chat up the boys. You've seen her on here - very prissy and uptight - that's the Pep in her, I reckon. Oh yeah, can I have a decent sound system for my dormroom? I wanna blackberry handheld also. Can you get me a flatscreen that isnt too big? Is your account at Harrod's accesible to me? How about just buying us a flat at the Barbican and we can troll to school from there?
Your dutiful daughter, Jiggy (the apple of your eye)

Jig! I am quite shocked by this effusion of words! As your foster mother, I want you to fully appreciate the enormous advantage that has befallen you. To become the ward of one of the very few, truly, aristocratic gentlemen in SL is something for which you should be humbly grateful. At all times be fully aware of the great distinction conferred upon you. This great man, who is already interviewing for a governess for you, should never see in you anything but the utmost respect and gratitude.

Once established in your new position it will behove you well to remember the sacrifice of your birth mother and the devotion of your poor, working class, foster mother and also to set your dearest sister the highest example of humility and moral rectitude.

PS Don't get the Sony flat screen - Panasonic is much better quality.

ROFLMAO!!!!!!

I protest strongly!!!! My (near) chastity and virtue are watchwords among those of my acquaintance!!

SOMEONE has been poisoning your ear!

/me glares meaningful at her sister . . .

I have this terrible, deep seated fear you girls will stage a coup d'etat with your convent reared army, oh Ye Tactician of the Steely Eyes.

No, no, no. I have been on the phone for the last hour about potential places in the Alps. The very secluded Alps.

So this Castle Caledon - will I be able to lock my bedroom door from the inside? I presume you HAVE read The Turn of the Screw? That governess had issues, you know.
And no, dear sister, that isnt the kind of screw you think Henry james is referring to.

No chance of Gstaad then?

Stern and Cranky, according to the admissions officer I have a feeling you two will find a way around it though. I wouldn't put the skis in storage just yet.

I think you have yet some time before you need fear this. It will take a few years of internecine struggle before I have successfully quelled Jig and her allies.

Unless of course "Daddy" intervenes in the meantime, and makes all of this unnecessary by claiming us, and returning us to the bosom of the paternal home . . .

(Following up on your Duchess of Devonshire hint, I am trying to engineer this whole thing into the plot of one of the better sentimental novels of the 18th century, complete with tear-filled happy ending, and the family reunited in love and . . . um . . . material comfort, at the conclusion.)

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I think you have to do your stint in Switzerland without burning the country to the ground first. Thanks be to god for the geological properties, they may just withstand you.

Not to fear, in our circles hiring a 'Governess' for your 'Ward' is the same thing as...well, not to worry, Desmond will explain it all to you individually over a nice cup of tea.

(The Duchess of Devonshire has multiple meanings, my super sleuthy literary prodigy I am sure you will find out eventually.)

Has this turned into an ageplay thread when I was wasn't looking? By Jig of all people?

Don't be absurd. I am ancient and Des is beyond ancient. As for the young ladies, you are never too old for Finishing School (to a point).

. . . the case for the defence rests.

Pep (Would *you* marry into a family that had a brat like *that* in it?)

Yes, but you are missing on the opportunity to have ME as a step-daughter!!!

/me makes her eyes as big, round, and orphan-like as she can possibly manage . . .

Yes, exactly. Think of me as a female Pip (NOT Pep), nurtured into maturity in a condition of poverty, abuse, and obscurity, but now introduced anew into the more genteel society to which she more naturally belongs, for reasons of blood, disposition, and talent.



PS. Laurin would make a very good Lady Havisham.

Sorry, I couldn't possibly acknowledge any association with a feminist . . .

Pep (however big her "posts" were". )

My Fair Lady will give you a rough idea of acceptable Caledonian attire. Oh, the fun of taking you two shopping.

YAY!!!

On Daddy's expense account, of course?

Nonsense, all of this is to salve his pride.

Well, no one who has been following this forum for the past few months has any reason to doubt the size of my "posts," do they? Prolixity is my middle name!

As for my feminist principles, it is precisely for that reason that you SHOULD marry Laurin, and adopt me and Jig as stepdaughters. Between the three of us, I'm pretty sure we could straighten you out right quick . . .