http://wiki.lspace.org/index.php?title=Deirdre_Parsley&feed=atom&action=historyDeirdre Parsley - Revision history2024-03-29T13:27:19ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.40.0http://wiki.lspace.org/index.php?title=Deirdre_Parsley&diff=29807&oldid=prevOld Dickens: link2018-10-11T00:39:13Z<p>link</p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>There is a chink in her aristocratic armor, though; [[Mrs Proust]], the city witch, recalls her from the days when she was a music-hall dancer in [[Ankh-Morpork]], named '''Deirdre Parsley''', noted for high kicks and kicks in general. The Duchess's manner changes abruptly when Mrs Proust arrives as the prospect of being exposed as a not-at-all respectable showgirl improves her personality markedly. She has told everyone around the hubward plains that her family perished in a terrible fire long ago. This could have been the Great Fire started by [[Broadman]], but we don't really know what became of the Ankh-Morpork Parsleys. This also explains why all the books on heraldry, genealogy and Keepsake family history, that ''should'' by rights have been in the library at [[Keepsake Hall]], have disappeared, she claims, to her rooms, so she can study them more conveniently.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>There is a chink in her aristocratic armor, though; [[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Eunice Proust|</ins>Mrs Proust]], the city witch, recalls her from the days when she was a music-hall dancer in [[Ankh-Morpork]], named '''Deirdre Parsley''', noted for high kicks and kicks in general. The Duchess's manner changes abruptly when Mrs Proust arrives as the prospect of being exposed as a not-at-all respectable showgirl improves her personality markedly. She has told everyone around the hubward plains that her family perished in a terrible fire long ago. This could have been the Great Fire started by [[Broadman]], but we don't really know what became of the Ankh-Morpork Parsleys. This also explains why all the books on heraldry, genealogy and Keepsake family history, that ''should'' by rights have been in the library at [[Keepsake Hall]], have disappeared, she claims, to her rooms, so she can study them more conveniently.</div></td></tr>
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</table>Old Dickenshttp://wiki.lspace.org/index.php?title=Deirdre_Parsley&diff=29368&oldid=prevMare-Silverus at 13:53, 25 May 20182018-05-25T13:53:21Z<p></p>
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</table>Mare-Silverushttp://wiki.lspace.org/index.php?title=Deirdre_Parsley&diff=29367&oldid=prevMare-Silverus at 13:52, 25 May 20182018-05-25T13:52:54Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>On the other hand, Letitia points out that the reason there are two hundred and fifty servants at Keepsake Hall is that most of them are old and retired, or looking after their elderly predecessors. However severe the Duchess's discipline may have been during their employment, no faithful servant has ever been cast off due to old age or disability. ''Noblesse oblige'' may be pronounced "nobless obligay" in Ankh-Morpork's entertainment district, but it's sometimes understood.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>On the other hand, Letitia points out that the reason there are two hundred and fifty servants at Keepsake Hall is that most of them are old and retired, or looking after their elderly predecessors. However severe the Duchess's discipline may have been during their employment, no faithful servant has ever been cast off due to old age or disability. ''Noblesse oblige'' may be pronounced "nobless obligay" in Ankh-Morpork's entertainment district, but it's sometimes understood.</div></td></tr>
</table>Mare-Silverushttp://wiki.lspace.org/index.php?title=Deirdre_Parsley&diff=29366&oldid=prevMare-Silverus at 13:51, 25 May 20182018-05-25T13:51:53Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>There is a chink in her aristocratic armor, though<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. </del>[[Mrs Proust]], the city witch, recalls her from the days when she was a music-hall dancer in [[Ankh-Morpork]] named '''Deirdre Parsley''', noted for high kicks and kicks in general. The Duchess's manner changes abruptly when Mrs Proust arrives as the prospect of being exposed as a not-at-all respectable showgirl improves her personality markedly. She has told everyone around the hubward plains that her family perished in a terrible fire long ago. This could have been the Great Fire started by [[Broadman]], but we don't really know what became of the Ankh-Morpork Parsleys. This also explains why all the books on heraldry, genealogy and Keepsake family history, that ''should'' by rights have been in the library at [[Keepsake Hall]], have disappeared, she claims to her rooms so she can study them more conveniently.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>There is a chink in her aristocratic armor, though<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">; </ins>[[Mrs Proust]], the city witch, recalls her from the days when she was a music-hall dancer in [[Ankh-Morpork]]<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, </ins>named '''Deirdre Parsley''', noted for high kicks and kicks in general. The Duchess's manner changes abruptly when Mrs Proust arrives as the prospect of being exposed as a not-at-all respectable showgirl improves her personality markedly. She has told everyone around the hubward plains that her family perished in a terrible fire long ago. This could have been the Great Fire started by [[Broadman]], but we don't really know what became of the Ankh-Morpork Parsleys. This also explains why all the books on heraldry, genealogy and Keepsake family history, that ''should'' by rights have been in the library at [[Keepsake Hall]], have disappeared, she claims to her rooms so she can study them more conveniently.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>On the other hand, Letitia points out that the reason there are two hundred and fifty servants at Keepsake Hall is that most of them are old and retired or looking after their elderly predecessors. However severe the Duchess's discipline may have been during their employment, no faithful servant has ever been cast off due to old age or disability. ''Noblesse oblige'' may be pronounced "nobless obligay" in Ankh-Morpork's entertainment district, but it's sometimes understood<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">.</del></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>On the other hand, Letitia points out that the reason there are two hundred and fifty servants at Keepsake Hall is that most of them are old and retired<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, </ins>or looking after their elderly predecessors. However severe the Duchess's discipline may have been during their employment, no faithful servant has ever been cast off due to old age or disability. ''Noblesse oblige'' may be pronounced "nobless obligay" in Ankh-Morpork's entertainment district, but it's sometimes understood.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">in {{SN}} we learn she is known to Lady [[Sybil Ramkin]], who on behalf of the [[Sam Vimes|Duke of Ankh]] has accepted a dinner-and-ball invitation to Keepsake Hall at which the Duke will be expected to dress appropriately to his station and office. No doubt Sybil knows the secret of Deirdre Parsely, but can be expected to be discreetly charitable and behave appropriately to a fellow Duchess. Like Tiffany, the Duke may also be reliably counted on to make telling comment about the way she treats the hired help. Maybe as Commander of the Watch with the collective memory of the Watch to draw on, he also knows the secret of Deirdre's origins</del>.</div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr>
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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>Her Grace, Lady Keepsake, Dowager Duchess of Keepsake, near [[The Chalk]], is another ferocious and overbearing harridan in the list of Pratchett characters that includes [[Daphne's Grandmother]] and the plebeian but hardly humble [[Iodine Maccalariat|Miss Maccalariat]]. She is snobbish, demanding and arrogant and browbeats everyone around her below the rank of King, including her daughter [[Letitia Keepsake|Letitia]]. Letitia is about to marry the young [[Roland|Baron]] of the Chalk, whom she also tries to browbeat, with less success than usual. Her attempts to [[wikipedia:Suborn|suborn]] [[Tiffany Aching]] to her will have strong echoes of [[Lady Felmet]] trying to break the witches of [[Lancre]], with much the same result.<br />
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There is a chink in her aristocratic armor, though. [[Mrs Proust]], the city witch, recalls her from the days when she was a music-hall dancer in [[Ankh-Morpork]] named '''Deirdre Parsley''', noted for high kicks and kicks in general. The Duchess's manner changes abruptly when Mrs Proust arrives as the prospect of being exposed as a not-at-all respectable showgirl improves her personality markedly. She has told everyone around the hubward plains that her family perished in a terrible fire long ago. This could have been the Great Fire started by [[Broadman]], but we don't really know what became of the Ankh-Morpork Parsleys. This also explains why all the books on heraldry, genealogy and Keepsake family history, that ''should'' by rights have been in the library at Keepsake Hall, have disappeared, she claims to her rooms so she can study them more conveniently.<br />
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On the other hand, Letitia points out that the reason there are two hundred and fifty servants at Keepsake Hall is that most of them are old and retired or looking after their elderly predecessors. However severe the Duchess's discipline may have been during their employment, no faithful servant has ever been cast off due to old age or disability. ''Noblesse oblige'' may be pronounced "nobless obligay" in Ankh-Morpork's entertainment district, but it's sometimes understood.<br />
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in {{SN}} we learn she is known to Lady [[Sybil Ramkin]], who on behalf of the [[Sam Vimes|Duke of Ankh]] has accepted a dinner-and-ball invitation to Keepsake Hall at which the Duke will be expected to dress appropriately to his station and office. No doubt Sybil knows the secret of Deirdre Parsely, but can be expected to be discreetly charitable and behave appropriately to a fellow Duchess. Like Tiffany, the Duke may also be reliably counted on to make telling comment about the way she treats the hired help. Maybe as Commander of the Watch with the collective memory of the Watch to draw on, he also knows the secret of Deirdre's origins.<br />
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