“She is attractive, though,“ Bute said. "Her face was most pleasing.”
“Yes, of course,” Augusta agreed. “But she is very brown.”
George opened his eyes. That was unexpected. “The earth is brown,” he said.
“What,” his mother said after a pause, “does that have to do with anything?“
”I love the earth,“ George said, thinking that explanation enough. (…) “The earth is brown,” George said again. “That which springs all life, all hope. It is brown. It is lovely.”
Julia Quinn and Shonda Rhimes, Queen Charlotte
