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<DIV><FONT size=3 face=Calibri>I think you’ll like this one!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=3><FONT face=Calibri>‘<SPAN
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<U>voice</U> kept remarking that Prime Ministers and Viceroys spoke in the
Reichstag; entered Lahore; said that the Emperor travelled; in Milan they
rioted; said there were rumours in Vienna; said that the Ambassador at
Constantinople had audience with the Sultan; the fleet was at Gibraltar. The
<U>voice</U> continued, imprinting on the faces of the clerks in Whitehall
(Timothy Durrant was one of them) something of its own inexorable gravity, as
they listened, deciphered, wrote down. Papers accumulated . . .
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" face=Calibri>‘The <U>voice</U> spoke plainly in the
square quiet room with heavy tables, where one elderly man made notes on the
margin of type-written sheets, his silver-topped umbrella leaning against the
bookcase. . . .</FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">‘“The Kaiser,” the far-away <U>voice</U> remarked in
Whitehall, “received me in audience.”</FONT></SPAN><FONT size=3><SPAN
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<DIV><FONT style="size: 3" size=3 face=Calibri>What voice? Sir Edward
Grey’s? Asquith’s? The telephone? Harold Nicolson’s father’s? Morse code? W<SPAN
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telegraphy? </SPAN>Or is it just messages pouring in?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=3 face=Calibri>Some metaphorical uses of “voice(s)” elsewhere in
<EM>JR</EM>:</FONT></DIV>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" face=Calibri>‘The worn <U>voices</U> of clocks repeated
the fact of the hour all night long.’ (end of ch. viii)</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Calibri><SPAN
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even in this light the legends on the tombstones could be read, brief
<U>voices</U> saying, “I am Bertha Ruck,” “I am Tom Gage.”</SPAN> . . .
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">the tablet set up in 1780 to the Squire of the parish
who relieved the poor, and believed in God—so the measured <U>voice</U> goes on
down the marble scroll, as though it could impose itself upon time and the open
air.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN
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