![]() ![]() Jewish people were already being murdered and losing their rights in Nazi Germany, and refugees were being turned away at international borders. That kind of talk wasn’t just morally poisonous. Even with context, they’re hard to forgive, and I don’t want to. Shorn of context, it’s easy to see why these quotes cause offence. And, well, I do think when it comes to marriage it’s safer to stick to your own nationality.” ![]() “I don’t like to jump to conclusions but I think there was a little Jew in him. “I wouldn’t advise marrying him,” she tells her friend Miss LaFosse. “And yes,” thought Miss Pettigrew “somewhere in his ancestry there has been a Jew.” He had a jutting nose, a full-lipped mouth and a look about him that said he was not a man to play tricks with, yet a hint he could be pleasant enough if folks were pleasant with him. He was dapper, neat, brisk, with brilliant, liquid brown eyes and dark hair. “His great-great-grandfather was an Italian and blood will out. “You … you …” cried Miss LaFosse hotly and inadequately. “If the cap doesn’t fit,” said Michael blandly, “how do you know who I’m talking about?” “He’s not a dago,” said Miss LaFosse furiously. ![]() ![]() In 2008 the novel was adapted into a film of the same name. “Well tell her not to be a damned fool and that I’m the man for her and not that black-haired, oily, knife-throwing dago. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day is a novel by Winifred Watson, first published in 1938 by Methuen & Co with illustrations by Mary Thomson. ![]()
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