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Lady Hecuba Villiers-Stoat

Lady Hecuba Villiers-Stoat

I am the Marquioness of Dureth. All that needs be known of me is properly recorded in the peerage. I understand my ne'er-do-well nephew and heir is on this site, though I cannot fathom why. He always was a loafer. Furthermore, he is a pusillanimous priss-pot and a d*d nuisance who, if he does not get his prospectively-investitured, Saville...more »
  • Torquemada Towers, Domina-by-Dureth, SX, UK
  • member since Sunday, February 17 2008

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  • The Right Reverend Isaiah Sturgeon

    The Right Reverend Isaiah Sturgeon says

    Most esteemed Lady,

    My sincere felicitations and best wishes to you as you take up residence in the capital. I am sure your presence amongst our elected officials and pillars of society will result in nothing short of raising the moral tone of the nation in general.

    Do not imagine for a moment that I would question any of your decisions, which must always be for the best, but I wonder if you're quite right in introducing our dear Dame Margaret (for so we must call her now) into the hotbed of lust and scandal that is London society. Do you not think such a delicate wildflower might be best suited to her natural home - the rolling fields from which it springs, the quaint cottages and churches which it adorns so simply and beautifully? I fear the heat of the hothouse must wither the bloom. My dear sister is of the same mind. I do beg you to consider further before attempting to transplant our fragile flower.

    Please give my warm regards to your unfortunate nephew.

    Your devoted servant,

    The Rt. Rev. I. Sturgeon

    posted 2 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Tinky

    Tinky says

    Yes, of course... I'm on it, Auntie.

    posted 3 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Miss Havisham

    Miss Havisham says

    Titles, titles. They grow old, they grow old and crusted with the filth of years. Not like cake...dresses....

    posted 3 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Tinky

    Tinky says

    Oh, actually, if you don't have a successor by way of a daughter-in-law, the "Dowager is optional.

    posted 3 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Tinky

    Tinky says

    Did you know, Aunt, I've just been studying up, and you should really be called The Dowager Marchioness of Dureth, or more informally, the Dowager Lady Villiers-Stoat! Sounds even more wonderfully intimidating, doesn't it?

    posted 3 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Tinky

    Tinky says

    Don't let her trail anything into the house.

    posted 4 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Tinky

    Tinky says

    Who's your charming friend, Auntie?

    posted 4 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Miss Havisham

    Miss Havisham says

    Lady Villiers-Stoat.
    Dust, dust, so new to you, so old to me; so strange to you, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us. The dust on your shoes. Leave it be. Well would you learn to mind dust if you had not seen the sun in thirty years.
    You must suffer for your own guilt in letting moths and mold and ruin take your wrap from you. The insects do not dare to come near me or my gown. It is too dark for any but I to live as I have done, even moths and worms and black, black beetles. So has my wedding cake grown too old for damp and fungus to want it.
    You have much to learn.

    posted 4 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Tinky

    Tinky says

    Oh, my dear, yes, practically everyone is an Honourable. A few dis-Honourables, but they tend to keep quiet.

    posted 4 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Tinky

    Tinky says

    I'd invite you to join my salon, but I can only invite "friends." Do stop glowering and be friendly.

    posted 4 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Tinky

    Tinky says

    Oh, I know, Auntie, it's too awful.

    posted 4 months ago. ( send a note )
  • dickensfan

    dickensfan says

    My Dear Lady Villiers-Stoat,

    In all the fuss over poor Maggie's fall, I forgot to mention how ardently I admire your impressivve[del]bosom[/del] (excuse me) jewels. One rarely sees them displayed with that much abundance.

    Yours very truly,

    Margaret Garside Dixon-Smith

    posted 8 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Mervyn B. Heeves

    Mervyn B. Heeves says

    Very good, madam.

    posted 8 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Mervyn B. Heeves

    Mervyn B. Heeves says

    It would appear, madam, that Miss Salisbury begs my assistance at Manleigh Hall on an urgent matter, and that life and death hang in the balance, madam. Miss Salisbury suffered an injury in a fall on Monday last.

    posted 8 months ago. ( send a note )
  • jill_elvish

    jill_elvish says

    (Written with bandage-pin pricks on a Mad Dog label):

    PLS SEND HEEVES LIFE/DEATH SALISBURY

    posted 8 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Lenon

    Lenon says

    My Dear Lady Villiers-Stoat,

    We have not been introduced, but I have been made aware of your connection to the Right Reverend Isaiah Sturgeon by way of a Sergeant Hughes of the London Metropolitan Police. I daresay this will come as a shock to you but there is no other way for it. Reverend Sturgeon is a danger to women, especially the young, and socially backward. I know that in some parishes, his sort is closeted and rendered neuter by shame, but there is reason to suspect this tactic will not work in this case. It is my intention to travel to Manleigh Hall forthwith to spare my acquaintance, Miss Salisbury, who is in the employ of your nephew Lord Terrence, any further humiliation at his hand. I do this with all due consideration of your regard for this cleric, but I am honor-bound.
    With sincere regret,
    Horace Wilkinson, St. Edmund Hall, Oxford

    posted 8 months ago. ( send a note )
  • The Right Reverend Isaiah Sturgeon

    The Right Reverend Isaiah Sturgeon says

    (under his breath, tea cup shaking) In that day the Lord will snatch away their finery: the bangles and headbands and crescent necklaces...Oh, no, your Ladyship, I'm quite all right, quite comfortable, thank you.

    posted 8 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Tinky

    Tinky says

    Oh, no, Aunt, you should just see the robes I have to wear at the investiture. Bright lavender, ermine trim. Very pastel. I see my whole entourage ...this will be around Eastertide you know ...my whole entourage adorned in lemon lime, with me robed in the lavender. I think it will be just the thing.

    posted 8 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Tinky

    Tinky says

    Mmm, Dixie, do try the champagne mousse. Oh, it's decadent - it must have cost a fortune. Try it! Isn't it marvelous?

    Auntie, I can't have my personal secretary running around looking someone lately from a Victorian workhouse. I have a certain reputation to uphold as an arbiter of fashion. You do realise I am to be invested as Knight of the Her Majesty's Handbag, after all. Now, Dixie, I must consult with you about that. Apparently, we're really talking about just lipstick and embroidered handkerchiefs. I shall need your input on the lipstick. I have the embroidered handkerchiefs down pat.

    posted 8 months ago. ( send a note )
  • The Right Reverend Isaiah Sturgeon

    The Right Reverend Isaiah Sturgeon says

    Yes, your Ladyship, I have always known Miss Salisbury to be a girl of painful modesty. Indeed, she has long been a respected and beloved member of the parish, and oversees the altar guild of St. Indigestia most admirably. Her candlestick polishing is renowned amongst the congregation.

    posted 8 months ago. ( send a note )


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