"And still she felt more confident at the prospect of taking on the Russian Mafia than she did attending a backyard barbecue."

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She stood by the tea-table in a light-coloured muslin gown, which had a good deal of pink about it. She looked as if she was not attending to the conversation, but solely busy with the tea-cups, among which her round ivory hands moved with pretty, noiseless, daintiness.

— Elizabeth Gaskell