Mary Allsebrook Quotes

Self-preservation And Determination Meant She Could Get Away With Anything. As Her Law-abiding, Conventionally Minded Daughter, I Secretly Envied Her This. She Was Not The Clinging-vine Type, Nor One Who Could Coax Sugar From A Lemon. Hers Was The Frontal Attack With No Inhibitions. She Told The Nazis You Could Not Trust Hitler, And They Let Her Go. In The Days Of Chaperones, She Hitch-hiked A Ride On A French Destroyer Along The Coast Of Crete; 'All Quite Proper, I Had My Cook With Me,' She Explained.

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