[Vwoolf] Why *Alice*?

[Stuart N. Clarke]

See “The Royal Academy”, Essays 3 (1988), p. 89:
“for your sake, Alice”

Betcha it comes from “The Pilot”, ch. xiv:

"Not a hair of theirs shall be touched, not a thatch shall blaze, nor shall a sleepless night befall the vilest among them and all for your sake, Alice!”

VW read Fennimore Cooper when she was young.  I’ve no idea what’s going on, and I can’t face reading the book on Gutenberg:
http://www.archive.org/stream/thepilottale00cooprich/thepilottale00cooprich_djvu.txt

But I’ve ordered a cheap copy, just for fun.

Stuart
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