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“Alberta had always had many forms of idling. She frittered away her time with virtuosity.” quote by Cora Sandel — Download Open image

““Alberta had always had many forms of idling. She frittered away her time with virtuosity.””

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“Alberta was back again. Back to it all, to all that was warped and desultory, to the lies and evasions and small, hidden irons…

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“Old repressed antipathy stirred in her. She had a rooted fear of rooms full of objects. They weighed on down and held one there,…

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“There was something she should have experienced, something besides this. There was a path somewhere that she could not find. It was and it…

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“Alberta felt her face grow old and shrivelled at her own words. She was a shadow already, half old, distressing, comic. Something happened from year to year, suspicion became knowledge, bad dreams reality. A weariness crept over her, more intense and pervasive than any she had known before. It sat in her back, sapping her strength. She sank down into…

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“She had some kind of foolish and unreasonable notion that the more doggedly she stood, the more would she placate certain mysterious powers which…

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“One was always met by a gust of greyness and narrow circumstances.”

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“Sometimes Alberta felt as if there were a conspiracy against her, as if the whole world were in agreement not to say a word. A foolish desire to shake people – But speak out, can’t you – would come over her. If she did not do so, it was because we really can remain on the verge of action for…

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“For a moment they all stood silent. The departure of this autumn ship gave rise to many different thoughts. Something came out of hiding…

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“She laced up her shoes and put on her coat, bracing herself as she got ready to leave, trying to find that feeling of…

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“The truth was Alberta only knew what she did not want. She had no idea what she did want. And not knowing brought unrest…

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“It placed its finger roughly on sore places.”

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“It was not altogether easy when one's daughters were too gifted, it really wasn't. Mrs. Lossius nodded in the direction of Harriet, who, well…

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