She felt drawing further from her and further from her an Archduke, (s…

Virginia Woolf
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She felt drawing further from her and further from her an Archduke, (she did not mind that) a fortune, (she did not mind that) the safety and circumstance of married life, (she did not mind that) but life she heard going from her, and a lover. ✨ Virginia Woolf (1990). Orlando: A Biography, Chatto & Windus
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