[Verginius Rufus]

The name Gertrude makes me think of Stephen Leacock's story "Gertrude the Governess," one of his best. Very funny.

Google the phrase and an online version of the text is the first item on the page.

[Cronos]

I love Leacock's descriptions:

still showed the outlines of a Norman Keep, to which had been added a Lancastrian Jail and a Plantagenet Orphan Asylum. From the house in all directions stretched magnificent woodland and park with oaks and elms of immemorial antiquity, while nearer the house stood raspberry bushes and geranium plants which had been set out by the Crusaders.

a face so face-like in its appearance as to be positively facial.!!:)

Gertrude DeMongmorenci McFiggin had known neither father nor mother. They had both died years before she was born :-PPPP

oh, it gets better!! The photographs!!!

Thank you for pointing this out to me!