Virginia Woolf Quote

He — for there could be no doubt of his sex, though the fashion of the time did something to disguise it — was in the act of slicing at the head of a Moor which swung from the rafters.

Chapter 1, first lines - Orlando: A Biography (1928)

He — for there could be no doubt of his sex, though the fashion of the time did something to disguise it — was in the act of slicing at the head...

He — for there could be no doubt of his sex, though the fashion of the time did something to disguise it — was in the act of slicing at the head...

He — for there could be no doubt of his sex, though the fashion of the time did something to disguise it — was in the act of slicing at the head...

He — for there could be no doubt of his sex, though the fashion of the time did something to disguise it — was in the act of slicing at the head...