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Stephenson:Neal:Cryptonomicon:566:Lavender Rose…(Alan Sinder)

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What message does Lavender Rose tell others beyond “being” a timeless piece of elegance? The Waterhouse family's awareness of fine China is close to 400 years old.

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ROYAL ALBERT's LAVENDER ROSE & PATTERN

Pink Roses with a Montrose Shape

Mary's Choice

Mary cCmndhd has a goal. Not the hard life of a robust farmwife —“… But the real purpose of the cCmndhd kids was to restore the past and lost glories of the family, who allegedly had been major wool brokers around the time of Shakespeare and well on their way to living in Kensington and spelling their name Smith before some combination of scrapie, long-term climatic change, nefarious conduct by jealous Outer Qwghlmians, and a worldwide shift in fashions away from funny-smelling thirty-pound sweaters with small arthropods living in them had driven them all into honest poverty and then not-so-honest poverty and led to their forcible transportation to Australia. …”

That goal of status needs Royal Albert's Lavender Rose as her china pattern. The success of Lavender Rose by Royal Albert billows from its quintessentially English grace and elegance and its sense of timeless romantic fantasy.  The qualities of Royal Albert China Lavender Rose reflects a delicate floral decoration blooming in feminine floral colors and gentle flowing curves. It must mean “we're back” on a female channel of information transmission.