Borrow only from the best:
Christobel says that, if anything was going to prepare a person for incarceration, a boarding school run by nuns would.
Didn\’t Evelyn Waugh make the same point in Decline and Fall?
Borrow only from the best:
Christobel says that, if anything was going to prepare a person for incarceration, a boarding school run by nuns would.
Didn\’t Evelyn Waugh make the same point in Decline and Fall?
From Decline and Fall, Part Three, Chapter iv, Nor Iron Bars a Cage:
“…anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the gay intimacy of the slums, Paul learned, who find prison so soul-destroying.”