A little bit of context:
Aunty Clo was coming, too - who really was an aunt of sorts, though Marigold never could get her placed. She did not like Aunty Clo and neither did Uncle Klon, who vowed she was certainly very much too ugly to live. "She is really lovable under her skin," Aunt Marigold had said, fresh from a reading of Kipling. "Then for heaven's sake, tell her to take her skin off," Uncle Klon had retorted.
Lucy Maud Montgomery, ' Magic for Marigold', (1929)
Don't you think it might have been a cutting remark about Kipling's works or RK himself?
Yan
J> A translator has written to us to try to trace a reference in a book:
J> 'She is really lovable under her skin,"
J> "Aunt Marigold had said from a recent reading of Kipling"
J> Does anyone recognise the expression in a poem oer tale ?
J> Good summertime wishes to all
J> John R
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