She nevertheless spent the summer of that year in Venice with the Pagets
. Lady Paget
recalls that Ouidapaddled with gilt slippers, and cream silk flounces, in the deep sands on the shore.
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Wealth and Poverty
Ouida
Neighbours thought Ouida
's behaviour in this regard strange; but critic Jane Jordan
suggests that the unorthodox gap between death and burial was most likely due to her inability to pay for a proper funeral...