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One Quotes by Barbara Pym
- [The woman] paused and seemed to take a deep breath. 'You see,' she declared. 'I am Tom Mallow's aunt.' Catherine's first instinct was to burst…
- Perhaps there can be too much making of cups of tea, I thought, as I watched Miss Statham filling the heavy teapot. Did we really…
- Dulcie always found a public library a little upsetting, for one saw so many odd people there...
- Oh, this coming back to an empty house,' Rupert thought, when he had seen her safely up to her door. People - though perhaps it…
- The small things of life were often so much bigger than the great things . . . the trivial pleasure like cooking, one's home, little…
- The burden of keeping three people in toilet paper seemed to me rather a heavy one.
- I realised that one might love him secretly with no hope of encouragement, which can be very enjoyable for the young or inexperienced.
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