Gaudy Night
“And one Night the Chairs, which when they went to Bed stood all in the Chimney-corner, were all removed and placed in the middle of the Room in very good order, and a Meal-sieve hung upon one cut full of Holes, and a Key of an inner Door upon another. And in the Day-time, as they sate in the House spinning, they could see the Bam-doors often flung open, but not by whom. Once, as Alice sate spinning the Rock or Distaff leapt several times out of the Wheel into the middle of the room... with much... more such ridiculous stuff as this is, which would be tedious to relate.
—WILLIAM TURNER “Peter,” said Harriet. And with the sound of her own voice she came drowsing and floating up out of the strong circle of his arms, through a green sea of sun-dappled beech leaves into darkness.
“Oh, damn, said Harriet softly to herself. “Oh, damn. And I didn’t want to wake up.”
The clock in the New Quad struck three musically.MoreLess
—WILLIAM TURNER “Peter,” said Harriet. And with the sound of her own voice she came drowsing and floating up out of the strong circle of his arms, through a green sea of sun-dappled beech leaves into darkness.
“Oh, damn, said Harriet softly to herself. “Oh, damn. And I didn’t want to wake up.”
The clock in the New Quad struck three musically.MoreLess
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