![]() As a child, Decca (Jessica) was Debo's favourite, being closest to her in age, though her love for Unity, whose pathetic life caused the whole family so much pain, ran very deep. There are also warm portraits of her sisters. When a housemaid was rash enough to empty and wash his cup, he thereafter locked the vessel in his safe. Farve, she writes, would take his coffee to his study, where he would proceed to drink it cold at regular intervals throughout the morning: his "suckments", he called this. Debo has the sharp beak of a magpie when it comes to wrenching from memory just the right anecdote. ![]() Of course, the Mitford parents, Lord and Lady Redesdale ("Muv and Farve"), still have the power to charm, even when depicted by one more willing to stick to the facts than Nancy, whose novels made Farve famous. ![]()
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