How Proust is your Downton Abbey?

[grashupfer]

After the amazingly extravagant suggestion of the burrowing wasp; this is from page 95 in my antique Random House two-volume edition of the Moncrieff translation:

... in the same way Francoise had adopted to minister to her permanent and unfaltering resolution to render the house uninhabitable to any other servant, a series of crafty and pitiless

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[proximoception]

I think I learned about the asparagus pee thing from him. You're suggesting he was collateral damage? And thus that a crazy housekeeper basically gave us his novel?

[grashupfer]

Might could be. I'm noticing how much tenderness he spends on the kitchen maid. It's to me a surprising amount.