Barbara Pym - Quartet in Autumn (1977)

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One did not drink sherry before the evening, just as one did not read a novel in the morning.

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Father G. was often obliged to enter houses where people were on the point of death or had already died; indeed he preferred this type of situation to normal parish visiting, with its awkward conversation and the inevitable cups of tea and sweet biscuits.

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