1 "Discussing the cesspool," said Mr. Oliver.
Between the Acts By Virginia WoolfGet Context In Unit 1 2 "She walks in beauty like the night," he quoted.
Between the Acts By Virginia WoolfGet Context In Unit 1 3 I remember," the old man interrupted, "my mother.
Between the Acts By Virginia WoolfGet Context In Unit 1 4 There were the graves in the churchyard to prove it.
Between the Acts By Virginia WoolfGet Context In Unit 1 5 At the tennis party she had felt this, and at the Bazaar.
Between the Acts By Virginia WoolfGet Context In Unit 1 6 Mrs. Haines was aware of the emotion circling them, excluding her.
Between the Acts By Virginia WoolfGet Context In Unit 1 7 The county council had promised to bring water to the village, but they hadn't.
Between the Acts By Virginia WoolfGet Context In Unit 1 8 She waited, as one waits for the strain of an organ to die out before leaving church.
Between the Acts By Virginia WoolfGet Context In Unit 1 9 Her family, she told the old man in the arm-chair, had lived near Liskeard for many centuries.
Between the Acts By Virginia WoolfGet Context In Unit 1 10 It was over sixty years ago, he told them, that his mother had given him the works of Byron in that very room.
Between the Acts By Virginia WoolfGet Context In Unit 1 11 It was a summer's night and they were talking, in the big room with the windows open to the garden, about the cesspool.
Between the Acts By Virginia WoolfGet Context In Unit 1 12 It was a daylight bird, chuckling over the substance and succulence of the day, over worms, snails, grit, even in sleep.
Between the Acts By Virginia WoolfGet Context In Unit 1 13 In the car going home to the red villa in the cornfields, she would destroy it, as a thrush pecks the wings off a butterfly.
Between the Acts By Virginia WoolfGet Context In Unit 1 14 Allowing ten seconds to intervene, she rose; paused; and then, as if she had heard the last strain die out, offered Mrs. Giles Oliver her hand.
Between the Acts By Virginia WoolfGet Context In Unit 1 15 But his snow-white breast was circled with a tangle of dirty duckweed; and she too, in her webbed feet was entangled, by her husband, the stockbroker.
Between the Acts By Virginia WoolfGet Context In Unit 1 16 The old man in the arm-chair--Mr. Oliver, of the Indian Civil Service, retired--said that the site they had chosen for the cesspool was, if he had heard aright, on the Roman road.
Between the Acts By Virginia WoolfGet Context In Unit 1 17 From an aeroplane, he said, you could still see, plainly marked, the scars made by the Britons; by the Romans; by the Elizabethan manor house; and by the plough, when they ploughed the hill to grow wheat in the Napoleonic wars.
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