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<DIV>“There was another gust and the sound of glass crashing.</DIV>
<DIV>“’Miss Pym’s conservatory?’ said Martin ...</DIV>
<DIV>“Miss Pym?’ said Eleanor. She’s been dead these twenty years!” (end
of ‘1908’, “The Years”)</DIV>
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<DIV>Cf. the end of ch. 2 in Mary MacCarthy’s “A Nineteenth-Century Childhood”
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<DIV>“For a long time now the sound of crashing and smashing of glass has been
in my ears.</DIV>
<DIV>“It is the strong, rose-coloured glass of the nineteenth century
conservatories cracking up. ...”</DIV>
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<DIV>Stuart</DIV>
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