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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf: drawers were full of things (she pulled them open), handkerchiefs, bits
of ribbon. Yes, she could see Mrs Ramsay as she came up the drive with
the washing.
"Good-evening, Mrs McNab," she would say.
She had a pleasant way with her. The girls all liked her. But, dear,
many things had changed since then (she shut the drawer); many families
had lost their dearest. So she was dead; and Mr Andrew killed; and
Miss Prue dead too, they said, with her first baby; but everyone had
lost some one these years. Prices had gone up shamefully, and didn't
come down again neither. She could well remember her in her grey
cloak.
 To the Lighthouse |