Original artwork, not a still
What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.
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What it means
Our interpretation.
The weather is blamed for interfering with the speaker’s composure or appearance. Continual inelegance makes an ordinary complaint about heat sound unusually refined. The phrasing turns discomfort into a problem of maintaining grace, giving the personal inconvenience a lightly comic expression.
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