Mary McCarthy - The company she keeps (1942)

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Waves of shame ran through her, like savage internal blushes.

Mary McCarthy

If you talked or laughed in church, told lies, had impure thoughts or conversations, you were bad; if you obeyed your parents or guardians, went to confession and communion regularly, said prayers for the dead, you were good.

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