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FleetingEileenM
Joined: 30 Mar 2010 Posts: 5784 Location: Hampshire
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Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2011 10:06 pm Post subject: Hermione Hyslop |
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Does this name sound familiar to anyone? It's been nagging at me for a while.
I read a book about 40 years ago and there was a mysterious character in it with that name. Another character traced the name on some object with her finger and slowly pronounced it “Her-Me-Own Hyslop”. The only other thing I can remember is an old house with a very overgrown garden with weeds coming up between the paving stones.
It's strange how these odd memories stick with one. |
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FLYBYNIGHT
Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 381 Location: At Home
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Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2011 9:02 pm Post subject: |
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It must be 30 or more years ago that my husband and I saw a book outside a secondhand shop, which had the title: "Miss Kilmansegg and her precious leg".
We always regretted not buying it.
I just googled it and apparently it's "A Golden Legend" by Thomas Hood.
http://www.archive.org/stream/misskilmansegghe00hood#page/n9/mode/2up
amazing! |
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