To the Lighthouse, Part 3 of 13
The Sleepy Bookshelf
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The Beauty of a Woman
She remembered that iniquity of his wives towards him, she had made her turn to steel and adamant. Mrs Ramsey could see as if before her eyes the innumerable miseries of his life. It injured her that he should shrink. But what more could she have done? There was a sunny room given up to him. The children were good to him. Never did she show a sign of not wanting him. She went out of her way indeed to be friendly. Do you want stamps? Do you want tobacco? Here's a book you might like and so on. And all this desire of hers to give, to help, was vanity. Her own self-satisfaction was it
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