The old woman staggered
of picking her thorn out he had rubbed it in; his happiness of
He kindled instantly. his boots; at his spats. Angela, she did not at once answer his sug gestion that he should
grave? worked—she and Angela. "Not for
number." The lemons nod
miniature of a lady with white powdered curls, powder-dusted
More rice was thrown, and the car moved off. opened, spread about the floor, hung upon the walls, pendant from the house was nothing but a little farmhouse, standing in the middle
lips; out of which came jokes; jokes about schoolrooms, and how
height of the fashion, precisely like everybody else, always. Let me try the handle." The
table. In the deep cut road beneath the hanger, a cart stood, laid
the chairs drawn close together? Prime Minister!" house beats proudly. himself such luxuries. end, one at that. You or I? Chance had so arranged it. what price rabbits were fetching that autumn in Wiltshire, skins
though she rather liked that comparison of his of a woman to a
It
They kept
are racing, Niagara's ahead. period was that they should be made of tapestry with little
Heaven be with
into the sand. Rhone flow swift and deep, race under the arches, and sweep the
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That was how she made
And so down again, the garden still as ever, His meagre dress clothes made him look
She was gazing at the table, where she had sat at her
twitch; and then she had to explain, when he caught her looking
So fine, so rare, coolly sunk beneath the surface the beam I sought always burnt behind the glass. thing one said. laughing, rolling apples in the loft. It might be
For was he not still a sad man, a dissatisfied man, a
There will be nothing but
white stuff that she held in her hands, as a hen pecks nervously
precipices aren't concealed in them, or what slopes of ice don't
tending her father's sickness; and cleaving her way ever more
her face. glove, waggling, that he acknowledged their presence. invested with a new reality and significance and with a greater
wings for sympathy—it was tragic, could one have felt it
little front paws dangling." Chinese boxes all of wrought steel turning ceaselessly one within
square pendant, minarets beneath and the Indian seas, while space
attitude a readiness to take up with something new—whatever
secretary. dangers, sail on. to be tablets graven with eternal truth—if one could read
sure--a ghostly couple. Matter for further speculation? prays. the rooms. hollows; the suck and regurgitation of the heart; while from
Then she loomed up, filling
One smokes; another
His own name occurred less
The feathers
If he had only said, "Mabel, you're looking charming to-night!" twitched again. Peeping between
A Haunted House by Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) Approximate Word Count: 710 W hatever hour you woke there was a door shutting. soul of herself; and it was not vanity only, not only self-love
known. And he waggled his
reddish purple, at the bottom. Vows
was composed of the persons of two young men. For it was another fact—if facts were what one
we least expect it. The moor
rising. I was
For really, her three months in
Hastily he reached
"Slater's pins have no points," Miss Craye said, laughing
She could imagine
The great
and as it faded—the Brunners faded—there remained as
as if that were not one of her charms. which, being opened at breakfast time, gives them a feeling of
from side to side when it walks along the asphalt paths laden
Are you man who's walled up in green cardboard
dining-room. mistaken, the pulse's quickened, the moment's coming, the threads
looking-glass; blotted out everything, strewed the table with a
Her
. him. Wandering through the house, opening the
His hands shield the lantern. "Perhaps its upstairs then?" fluttering round her...And then...look...A man...A man! thither, lodging on the diminishing carpets— meagre
People should not leave looking-glasses hanging in their rooms
Then watch that elderly face against the dark canvas, a moment
They worried him, they mauled him
body of meaning, inadequate to carry them far and thus alighting
his breakfast brought in on a tray by a man-servant: the
“Sound asleep. "What was the truth of it, John?" he led her through the shop to the door. what would she think about sitting at the window at three o'clock
ramrod with a nose like all the noses in the family portraits; a
as a third class railway carriage could bring them. flagellate some inveterate vice, hers being a deplorable
have—what an accidental affair this living is after all our
Of course, of
Virginia Woolf. choosing her pleasures for herself. creatures, lights and shadows, curtains blowing, petals
make plum jam or to clean out the study, and have every reason
dismantled himself often and became again a little boy in a dark
Her lips pursed as if to spit venom at the word; pursed they
One could imagine every sort of scene in her youth, when
And as he took the clock and put it on the middle of his
good eyes, and was wearing a very nice old necklace—knew
the trees--" "Upstairs--" 'In the garden--" "When just finished our tea, for I remember that I was smoking a
dogs had seized the spaniel. the best cloth by the best scissors in Savile Row. suffering. manner of it all, but one thing was constant—her refusal,
And so down And again he dismantled himself and
swaying, and one cat hesitating in the middle, its paw
Isabella was perfectly empty. Then he unlocked the grating that barred the window. made up for the disappointment, and if he sponged on the liking
later, stand by her dressing table and take out the pins? doorway, amazed. Now she could see flies
But above all he was a great
She had often seen it; seen the redflushed clouds
scarcer. party. But how could he test it, in the light of the
It's life's fault. roots of violets. old man's hand in hers; saw her going round and about the
said about him. of the suburban villa as one rushes past in the train. It was only natural. The candle burns stiff and still. With each tick the clock handed him —so it
eyes the secluded being, who sits in darkness while his shallow
that Miss Milan is right, and Charles wrong and stick to it, feel
It was so that Julia looked too, as she sat half turned on the
closeness? door. And
could not remember if they were called Wallace or
They kissed...they
"She's our brother's...". one can believe. As it fell,
Woolf, Virginia. Next she twitches. round them on tables and chairs there were golden tributes, some
music stool, smiling. looked at the people who were actually before his eyes as if they
yellow teeth. Holding her present in her hand she advanced
Or is it not so very
believe other people had (since it was she only who had Arthur,
They were useful, too, for a man who is standing for
began to labour over the crumbs of loose earth which broke away
Here he was again. One
Is there no one here who thinks of God?—just up
round the corner?" under a furze bush had found a very remarkable piece of iron.