'"...If cousin Poppy St Julien had the true principles of Social Unionism at heart she would return to her husband and present him with several healthy male children."
"Darling Eugenia," cried Poppy, "he wouldn't like that a bit. Why, when I think of all the trouble I've taken - "
"Is your husband an Aryan?"
"I really don't quite know what an Aryan is."
"Well, it's quite easy. A non-Aryan is the missing link between man and beast. That can be proved by the fact that no animals, except the Baltic goose, have blue eyes."
"How about Siamese cats?" said Jasper.
"That's true. But Siamese cats can possess, to a notable degree, the Nordic virtue of faithfulness."
"Indeed they don't," said Poppy. "We had one last summer and he brought back a different wife every night. Even Anthony was quite shocked."
from Wigs on the Green by Nancy Mitford (Chapter 14)
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