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435 The Story of the Hogarth Press Part 2 - The Virginia Woolf Story That Changed Everything

The History of Literature

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What's Sixpence?

The couple stood still on the edge of the flower bed, and together pressed the end of her parasol deep down into the soft earth. The action and the fact that his hand rested on the top of hers expressed their feelings in a strange way as these short, insignificant words also expressed something. Even when she wondered what sort of tea they gave youatku, he felt that something loomed up behind her words and stood vast and solid behind them. And there was a bill that he would pay with a real two shilling piece. But it was too exciting to stand and think any longer. They make you pay sixpence on friday. What's sixpence anyway? Isn

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