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Posted by Joy on December 02, 2003 at 11:44:37 from 195.157.57.17 user Joy.

In Reply to: Quotation source... posted by Fiona on December 02, 2003 at 11:07:10:

Easy-peasy - it's from Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited - book 3, chapter 1. Charles and Julia are on board ship when Julia says: "Oh dear," said Julia, "where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?"

This link says:
http://www.abbotshill.freeserve.co.uk/Book%203%20Chapter%201.html

Julia is making a wry joke about a famous film. Orphans of the Storm, first shown in 1921, was directed by D.W.Griffith and starred Joseph Schildkraut and the Gish sisters, Lilian and Dorothy. It was originally a French play, Les Deux Orphelines, written by Adolphe Philippe d’Ennery and Eugene Cormon and first performed in 1874.
The story is about two young orphan girls, close friends but not sisters, who grow up together. One becomes blind and the other looks after her until one day the blind one gets lost and is taken away by a vicious old woman who wants to make her beg for money. All is not well for the sighted girl, either, for she falls in love with an aristocrat who is likely to be a victim of the guillotine (this is the time of the French Revolution). The film’s title may seem more suited to the situation of Charles and Julia, but the storms of life the two girls go through in the film are frequent, massive and life-threatening.


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