Isolde Acridotheres
Character
Also appears as: Miss Isolde Acridotheres, Miss Isolde Perroquet, Mrs Isolde Corby
Hybrid daughter of Arabella Melopsittaca and Tristram Acridotheres, for a time misrecognised as Hawksmoor’s own. Becomes Mrs Isolde Corby after the documentary and romantic dust has settled.
Appears in
- Pretty Poli chapters:
- Iterum Consul Consilium Corvi Quaeret
- Mors Calpurniae
- Testamentum Calpurniae
- Incipit Ruina Psittaci
- Psittacus Apud Dominum Vaginae
- Reconciliationis Inter Psittacum Suamque Filiam, Etiam Pupilla Apud Socium Supposita Sit
- Nuntius Nuptiarum Inter Corvum et Pupillam; Quaestio Subtillissima de Habitatione Psittaci
- Nuptiae Inter Augustum Imperatorem Et Liviam Drusillam
Connections
Meets
- Arabella Melopsittaca child of
- Hawksmoor Perroquet ← mistakenly acknowledges as daughter (1 passage)
- Ian Corby spouse of
- Mr Tristram Acridotheres child of
Attends
- Hotwells stays at (1 passage)
- Southville lives at (1 passage)
- The Downs takes walk on (1 passage)
From the books (8 passages)
…upon Mr Ian Corby in the company of none other than the fruit of his own loins viz. Miss Isolde Perroquet whom that crow was serenading with some song which he must have cadged off a nightingale.
…The first to crack the carapace was that dutiful daughter of hers, Miss Isolde Perroquet, who ventured to seek an audience with that most respectable lawfully wedded husband of her mother, viz. Mr Hawksmoor Perroquet, in his office in City Hall. The great municipal parrot was at that time much concerned with the affairs of the polity, and at the behest of Sir Hearty Luncheon was frequently occupied with jumping…
…In this room, there was to be found a bureau, in which, as Miss Isolde Perroquet had on one or two occasions intimated, there were sequestered certain official documents, although that maiden was at some pains to stress that she never had glimpsed their contents.
…you have my permission, should such be your inclination, to renew the addresses you have been paying to Miss Isolde Perroquet,” and added, after a pause during which he found it necessary to swallow something or other, “that is to say, my daughter.”
…down upon the pavement by Mr Jagtar Singh, made his way up to his apartment, and there found Miss Isolde Perroquet in the company of duns.
Eventually, his thoughts turned to Miss Isolde Perroquet.
“Why hello Papa,” replied Miss Isolde Perroquet, “Mr Corby sent up his card as it were, and since he is a respectable gentleman and I was at home, you see, I thought that I might with propriety receive him.”
…Mr Ian Corby, inasmuch as, following the marriage which very soon took place between Mr Ian Corby and Miss Isolde Perroquet - more on which, presently, - that gentlebird continued to live under the roof of the happy couple which had been his roof when he was in his pomp. In those unguarded moments when Mr Ian Corby was honest with himself, he found it necessary to admit to himself…