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[ video ] slatebreaker June 18 2011, 20:21:25 UTC

...How about a friend? I can bandage a cut as well as the next schoolmistress.

[ her concern is evident. ]

[action.] slatebreaker June 23 2011, 16:04:45 UTC

I am very sorry to hear that, Mildmay.

[ a quiet sort of sympathy. ]

[action.] ohmykethe June 23 2011, 16:07:17 UTC

[Mildmay shrugs. This is something he got over a long, long time ago. It helped that his story is rather common, at least, up until a point.]

It weren't so bad. Like you said, some folks could be worse. You found a nice place, right?

[action.] slatebreaker June 23 2011, 16:11:32 UTC

Green Gables. [ love and awe colour her voice. ] Oh, it is a lovely little farmhouse. I almost was unable to stay but I am so glad I did.

[action.] ohmykethe June 23 2011, 16:30:13 UTC

You said it was on some prince island?

[And she's happy again. Best to keep her talking about herself, obviously. Mildmay may not be good at smalltalk, but he's good at reading people, even if his own conclusions are more than a little informed by his biases.]

[action.] slatebreaker June 23 2011, 16:31:34 UTC

Prince Edward Island. [ she pronounces each word crisply. ] Although the French called it Isle-St-Jean before that.

[action.] ohmykethe June 23 2011, 16:36:40 UTC

[This gets Mildmay's attention.] Your world's gotta Saint Jean, too? [He pronounces 'Jean' like 'jeen', like all vaguely French words he knows, by the English pronunciation rules.]

[action.] slatebreaker June 23 2011, 16:40:36 UTC

Why, yes. The Island was once known as St. Jean's.

[action.] ohmykethe June 23 2011, 16:46:09 UTC

Huh. What's Jean the saint of, if'n you know?

[action.] slatebreaker June 23 2011, 16:49:21 UTC

St. Jean? Hmm, well...Jean is the name that the French use for John, you know. So I expect that the Island's first name was for St. John the Baptist.

[action.] ohmykethe June 23 2011, 16:53:04 UTC

Baptist? Huh. Never heard of him. I mean, we got a Saint John and a Saint Jean, but they're different folks.

[action.] slatebreaker June 24 2011, 14:16:53 UTC

They are? Why, then -- what is your Saint John a patron of?

[action.] ohmykethe June 24 2011, 14:18:10 UTC

Keeping secrets. Mostly he's Saint Johnny except at liturgies.

[action.] slatebreaker June 24 2011, 14:19:30 UTC

Saint Johnny.

[ she tries the name on for size. hmm. informal, but kind of charming. ] I do believe that I very much like that, Mildmay. What a novel approach to sainthood.

[action.] ohmykethe June 24 2011, 14:22:49 UTC

Who's your St John, then?

[action.] slatebreaker June 24 2011, 14:26:22 UTC

Patron saint of...of baptisms, I suppose.

[ marilla was more for catechism in the house, not anne. but she had listened now and then. ]

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