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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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