[Vwoolf] Awaiting the return of visitors

[Stuart N. Clarke]

(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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