Age Before Beauty



Beauty
Not in the collection of the author

Nancy Mitford (1904 - 1973) writing to her sister Diana, Lady Mosley (1910 - 2003), Venice, 12 August 1970:

Cecil [Beaton, 1904 - 1980] came back for a night.  He is fearfully worried about a tiny wrinkle on his cheek.  People gaze in the glass & don't realize that the general effect is 100.  I saw the old soul from my balcony - didn't know he was coming - & wondered who the old gent was until I heard the voice.  Nothing to do with the tiny wrinkle.

From The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters, Edited by Charlotte Mosley, 2007, p. 550

 

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