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It is wonderful what one can do on cocoa and a little imagination.
- Elizabeth Bowen, Charity (Collected Stories, p.211)
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Miss Phelps and Miss Selby we're pressed close together in the narrow frame of the window; their sides and elbows touched, they could have felt one another's hearts beating.
- Elizabeth Bowen, The Secession (Collected Stories, Vintage, p.174).
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"'Oh, all big things are reposeful,' said Gilda, 'look at the beech trees.'
'I am a very wiry Scotch fir,' said Fanny with relish. 'I stand against the skyline and cry out for gales. When they come I ecstacize. Gilda, you are a larch tree planted in a windy place. You look down and think you long for a valley, but every inch of you undulates. In a calm you'd go quite limp...'"
- Elizabeth Bowen, Sunday Evening (Collected Stories, Vintage, p.92).
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'What is a true woman?' asked Richard suddenly. Herbert thought it must be very uncomfortable to live with a person who asked these disconcerting, rather silly questions.
- Elizabeth Bowen, The Lover (Collected Stories, Vintage, p.61)
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