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It was never quite clear to Eleanor why the English thought it was so distinguished to have done nothing for a long time in the same place,
memories of the way their grandfathers had lived, which was not in fact how their grandfathers had lived.
At the beginning, there had been talk of using some of her money to start a home for alcoholics. In a sense they had succeeded.
he felt the invitation of the emptiness behind him, pulling him backwards.
a civil servant who was widely thought to be a spy because his job sounded too dull to exist.
he had the sullen air of a man who looks forward to strangling poultry.
I suppose somebody told her long ago that she had a pretty chin, and so she decided to get another one, and another, and another.
a face like a crème brûlée after the first blow of the spoon, all covered in little cracks.’
