[Vwoolf] Awaiting the return of visitors
Stuart N. Clarke
stuart.n.clarke at btinternet.com
Sun Nov 22 04:37:58 EST 2020
(Not that we ever had any.)
Stuart
(Day 250)
Anne Thackeray: ‘Who does not know the look of furniture in a room lately vacated, as it stands about the chimney-piece in confidential proximity? A sort of faint image of the people who are gone is still in the deserted chamber. Stuffed arm-chairs with sprawling castored legs turned towards each other, a “duchesse” with a grand lace back in an affected attitude by the table, a sprinkling of light bachelor cane-chairs joining in the conversation [. . .]’
(‘Two Hours’, ‘Cornhill Magazine’, 21 (April 1870), 435–59 at 487)
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