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Page 91
... novelist ; and her patient husband , during her long absences , often sits alone downstairs and scrawls sketches of cats across a sheet of blotting - paper . When she wrote the story , Elizabeth opened up three separate strata of her ...
... novelist ; and her patient husband , during her long absences , often sits alone downstairs and scrawls sketches of cats across a sheet of blotting - paper . When she wrote the story , Elizabeth opened up three separate strata of her ...
Page 97
... novelist then unfolded , a dense network of intrigue and vice and crime , was also somewhat hard to credit . Far from revealing the influence of Aeschylus or Sophocles , it often recalled the dark complexities of a Jacobean melodrama ...
... novelist then unfolded , a dense network of intrigue and vice and crime , was also somewhat hard to credit . Far from revealing the influence of Aeschylus or Sophocles , it often recalled the dark complexities of a Jacobean melodrama ...
Page 98
... novelist metamorphosed , even as I watched , into one of those attractive , long - suffering characters she had so sympathetically described . - - During a wartime Christmas - week I stayed at a house where much earlier I had been the ...
... novelist metamorphosed , even as I watched , into one of those attractive , long - suffering characters she had so sympathetically described . - - During a wartime Christmas - week I stayed at a house where much earlier I had been the ...
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