to be most aggrieved that I did not get married off in the last IPOAT thread? Won't someone think of Nigel?

[BeribbonedGibbon]

Well, am I?

MimiLouBelle and Umami-Mae indulge in some less than ladylike behaviour to settle their differences

Lawks, aren't we....shiny. Glowing with health! Must be the grits and Miss Hully's biscuits. They're the best in all of Charleston, I do declare.

Hully, do see if you couldn't rustle me up a chicken-fried steak and some of your red eye gravy. I'm so famished after that last Virginia Reel with Beauregard I shall faint clean away soon enough.

I'm just taking a sneaky nip of brandy and gargling with perfume to disguise the smell

I do declare I shall be quite inebriated at this rate

Jinny - loving your links, keep em coming

Ladies, I have it on good authority that y'all are involved in pursuits not fitting for a lady

I do declare I am the only true belle among us, or my name isn't Gibbon Savannah Clementine Rae.

Lord I wish you'd told me we were supposed to be wearing white dresses

I feel so stupid

Ashley DuBois sends word that he would be happy to accompany you Lenin

He's over by the barbecue

<a class="break-all" href="http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e9/Bloomer-Club-cigars-satire-p-adv054.JPG&imgrefurl=commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bloomer-Club-cigars-satire-p-adv054.JPG&usg=__nDiPnghTdnl4QX9Dsp67QA4SuGw=&h=571&w=772&sz=176&hl=en&start=0&zoom=1&tbnid=BpuSjTqExtFpQM:&tbnh=148&tbnw=183&prev=/images%3Fq%3DBLOOMER%2Bclub%2Bcigar%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26biw%3D1280%26bih%3D609%26tbs%3Disch:1&um=1&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=130&vpy=85&dur=1220&hovh=193&hovw=261&tx=167&ty=128&ei=KCDqTMHvBMGBhQfM9pC-DA&oei=KCDqTMHvBMGBhQfM9pC-DA&esq=1&page=1&ndsp=18&ved=1t:429,r:0,s:0" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Or perhaps the Sisters Rousseau? Though for heaven's sake do not let Mimi know they have come, for she thinks it is most ill-mannered for ladies to smoke, and her Mama will not approve of their unconventional attire.

Won't someone help me loosen my stays?

Mammy has laced me too tight again and I can barely breathe

jinny - ah do declare that you need that wasp waist look to make a real catch of an eligible southern cotton baron. (hoiks and pulls the stays even tighter)

Mercy me! Mercy me!

Who's gonna be gettin' in that cotton? I swear dem fiel' hands be gettin' lazier and lazier. Now dey is saying you ladies keep a-asking dem to fetch an' carry for you as if dey was house boys. I know dey is strong an' all, but dere place is in the cotton. Leave dem boys alone.

Mammy Hully enough is enough

I will surely snap

whyyyyyyyy fiddle de deeeee, tis time for mint julep.

Doooo make maaaaahne a large one BrickyLouMaeRae, aaah am fair parched from trying to help Gibbon Savannah Clementine Rae with her stays, and still the poor thing has a fourteen inch waist. I do declayare aah don't know how she'll evah get a husband looking that way.

Why fie upon your fluffy noddles! Alcohol is for theemenfolk, you misses know that. Now I'll ask Prissy to bring ina nice jug of Sarsparilla and a plate of grits.

Fiddle-dee-dee!

Well Miss Hully, if I can't have a julep then I am not going to have my afternoon nap! So there! And must we have grits for every meal? I'm sure it's your grits that're responsible for Gibbon-Clem's sorry situation.

I am Mammy to you girls, none of your Miss, I know my station.

(Although I feel a change coming on as Mammy's narrative avenues are a little narrow)

I heard Big Jim who works down at the smokehouse was making eyes at you Hammy. Maybe there's a little romance in you yet?

Pish and tuffle, Missy! Big Jim is my third cousin on my dear mama's side and also distantly related to my second uncle who was sold ten years past! Don't you pay no mind to folkses lives no more?

Oooh I spy the carriage of our neighbour the Colonel! My mama says I should never accept an invitation to walk in the haha with him....I wonder why?

tidbit, my dear?

Won't someone bring me some iced tea? I am on the veranda, pawsitively wilting, I say wilting

This weather will make the dance a truly heated affair...Big Daddy has secured the service of the best seamstress in all Virginia, I do hope she does me justice