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1  Hogben's Folly was for a moment ashen white.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
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2  There was no longer a view--no Folly, no spire of Bolney Minster.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
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3  Out of the corner of her eye she could see Hogben's Folly; then the vane flashed.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
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4  The spire of Bolney Minster, Rough Norton woods, and on an eminence rather to the left, Hogben's Folly, so called because.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
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5  At any moment guns would rake that land into furrows; planes splinter Bolney Minster into smithereens and blast the Folly.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
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6  Hogben's Folly was still eminent; the very flat, field-parcelled land had changed only in this--the tractor had to some extent superseded the plough.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
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7  So, straightening themselves for the last time, each grasping, it might be a hat, or a stick or a pair of suede gloves, for the last time they applauded Budge and Queen Bess; the trees; the white road; Bolney Minster; and the Folly.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
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