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When they married on 6 February 1904, some ten years after that first meeting, Sydney was twenty-four years old. [...] A few days before her wedding day a married friend told Sydney what to expect on her wedding night. Sydney was dumbfounded. 'A gentleman would never do anything like that', she said. [15]
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So why did Sydney - a pretty girl, whose greatest enjoyments in life were sailing, visiting France and ice-skating, and who loved the parties and dancing she attended as a débutante - marry David, who was a countryman at heart, actively disliked meeting new people and regarded 'abroad' with suspicion and horror? There can be no other reason but that she fell in love with him. He was a kind man and he was very funny. He made her laugh and unquestionably loved her. Many successful marriages have been founded on less. [20]
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Sydney was a good manager, and was of the school of thought that 'a lazy master makes a lazy servant'. A note among her papers states that one of the reasons she so loved being aboard a sailing ship was 'the beautiful cleanness... there is no luxury where there is dirt; and where everything is shining clean there is luxury'. A close family friend described Sydney as 'acutely perceptive, well read and fastidious; surprised by nothing and amused by everything. [...] she encouraged her children's interest in music, the arts and reading, and the mental independence that would distinguish them. [21]
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Three years later after Nancy's birth another girl, Pamela, was born. Two years later, in 1909, Sydney gave birth to the long-awaited son, Tom, and quickly became pregnant again. Diana arrived only a year after Tom, so that she always felt they were 'almost twins'. Although Sydney is said to have cried when she learned that her fourth baby was another girl, her disappointment was quickly dispelled, for Diana was beautiful from the first. Like all the Mitford children, except Nancy, Diana was blond-haired with clean fair skin and remarkable blue eyes. Nancy was dark, and her green eyes were later described by Evelyn Waugh, John Betjeman and sister Decca as triangular in shape.
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So why did Sydney - a pretty girl, whose greatest enjoyments in life were sailing, visiting France and ice-skating, and who loved the parties and dancing she attended as a débutante - marry David, who was a countryman at heart, actively disliked meeting new people and regarded 'abroad' with suspicion and horror? There can be no other reason but that she fell in love with him. He was a kind man and he was very funny. He made her laugh and unquestionably loved her. Many successful marriages have been founded on less. [20]
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Sydney was a good manager, and was of the school of thought that 'a lazy master makes a lazy servant'. A note among her papers states that one of the reasons she so loved being aboard a sailing ship was 'the beautiful cleanness... there is no luxury where there is dirt; and where everything is shining clean there is luxury'. A close family friend described Sydney as 'acutely perceptive, well read and fastidious; surprised by nothing and amused by everything. [...] she encouraged her children's interest in music, the arts and reading, and the mental independence that would distinguish them. [21]
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Three years later after Nancy's birth another girl, Pamela, was born. Two years later, in 1909, Sydney gave birth to the long-awaited son, Tom, and quickly became pregnant again. Diana arrived only a year after Tom, so that she always felt they were 'almost twins'. Although Sydney is said to have cried when she learned that her fourth baby was another girl, her disappointment was quickly dispelled, for Diana was beautiful from the first. Like all the Mitford children, except Nancy, Diana was blond-haired with clean fair skin and remarkable blue eyes. Nancy was dark, and her green eyes were later described by Evelyn Waugh, John Betjeman and sister Decca as triangular in shape.
