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[Aleona-CVS] chock-full


From: Lesley Wills
Subject: [Aleona-CVS] chock-full
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 16:03:56 +0200

Theywere talking about wages and unemployment.
He had come down in his ordinary clothes. He seemed to be rather cocksure, thisyoung man; and his manners were bad. How old she looks, how worn she looks, Lily thought, and how remote. Youre not planning to go to the Lighthouse, are you, Lily, said MrsRamsay. I told them to put them in the hall foryou, she said to William Bankes.
She says theyre building a new billiard room, he said. But already bored, Lily felt that something was lacking;Mr Bankes felt that something was lacking.
She would move the treerather more to the middle.
Pulling her shawl round herMrs Ramsay felt that something was lacking.
Whatdid they know about the fishing industry?
Mrs Ramsay wondered, and shewondered if Augustus Carmichael had noticed. That was his way oflooking, different from hers. Im going to find it, he said, Im getting up early.
Buthow strange, she repeated, to Mr Bankess amusement, that they shouldbe going on there still. She could notunderstand how she had ever felt any emotion or affection for him. She could not help respecting the composure with which hesat there, drinking his soup.
He loathed people eating whenhe had finished. Mrs Ramsay wondered, and shewondered if Augustus Carmichael had noticed. She could notunderstand how she had ever felt any emotion or affection for him.
Everything about him had that meagre fixity, that bareunloveliness.
The cook had spent three days over that dish.
He read one of them every six months, he said. That was the number, it seemed, on his watch. His manners weredelightful to her, and his sharp cut nose and his bright blue eyes. But here, suddenly, like all grown-up people, she ceased to pay him theleast attention.
Ofsuch moments, she thought, the thing is made that endures. Yes, it was pretty well true, he thought. And so tonight, directly he laughed at her, she was notfrightened.
For that was what hiscriticism of poor Sir Walter, or perhaps it was Jane Austen, amountedto.
It would have hurt her if he had refused to come.
Probably, Mr Bankes thought, as Tansley abused thegovernment, there is a good deal in what he says. Whata waste of time it all was to be sure!
Both suffered from the glow of theother two.

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