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face="Times New Roman">‘They looked at the tulips. Stiff and curled, the little
rods of waxy smoothness rose from the earth, nourished yet contained, suffused
with scarlet and coral pink. Each had its shadow; each grew trimly in the
diamond-shaped wedge as the gardener had planned it.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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face="Times New Roman">“Barnes never gets them to grow like that,” Clara mused;
she sighed.’ (“Jacob’s Room”, ch. XIII)</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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Hutchinson’s maiden name was Barnes, I think the most obvious literary
predecessor is Sir Barnes Newcome, the villain of Thackeray’s “The Newcomes”,
which VW read from 23 January to 2 March 1897.</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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I read into Clara’s musing and sighing a feeling of resentment, a suggestion
that Barnes isn’t trying, or even being wilfully
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