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The education bestowed on Flora Poste by her parents had been expensive, athletic and prolonged: and when they died within a few weeks of one another during the annual epidemic of the influenza or Spanish Plague which occurred in her twentieth year, she was discovered to possess every art and grace save that of earning her own living.
Few characters in literary history have ever been introduced with such impact as Flora Poste, and fewer still manage to live up to that introduction for the length of the novel. But Flore Poste doesn't break a sweat, maintaining her poise in the face of everything the Starkadder family throws at her. Such an icon.
The education bestowed on Flora Poste by her parents had been expensive, athletic and prolonged: and when they died within a few weeks of one another during the annual epidemic of the influenza or Spanish Plague which occurred in her twentieth year, she was discovered to possess every art and grace save that of earning her own living.
Few characters in literary history have ever been introduced with such impact as Flora Poste, and fewer still manage to live up to that introduction for the length of the novel. But Flore Poste doesn't break a sweat, maintaining her poise in the face of everything the Starkadder family throws at her. Such an icon.