Vita Sackville-West - The Edwardians (1930)

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Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin his novel.

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Lucy laughed her most silvery laugh, the laugh that had made several men believe that she understood what they said.

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For a young man to start his career with a love affair with an older woman was quite de rigueur... Of course, it must not go on for too long. An apprenticeship was a very different thing from a career.

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He instantly despised his guests for being still asleep, in a rush of that superiority which afflicts all those who are astir earlier than other people.

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One never believes other people's experience, and one is only very gradually convinced by one's own.

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Click, clack, click, clack, went their conversation, like so many knitting-needles, purl, plain, purl, plain, achieving a complex pattern of references, cross-references, Christian names, nicknames, and fleeting allusions.

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