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Quotes from Between the Acts by Virginia Woolf
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1  London street cries it was called.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
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2  For Isa's husband, the stockbroker, was coming from London.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
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3  I thought it every bit as good as anything I'd seen in London.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
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4  Hear rather the shepherd, coughing by the farmyard wall; the withered tree that sighs when the Rider gallops; the brawl in the barrack room when they stripped her naked; or the cry which in London when I thrust the window open someone cries.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
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5  So with blow after blow, with champagne and ogling, she staked out her claim to be a wild child of nature, blowing into this--she did give one secret smile--sheltered harbour; which did make her smile, after London; yet it did, too, challenge London.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
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6  It only wanted a shower of rain, a flight of pigeons round his head, and the pealing bells of St. Paul's and the Abbey to transform him into the very spit and image of a Victorian constable; and to transport them to a foggy London afternoon, with the muffin bells ringing and the church bells pealing at the very height of Victorian prosperity.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
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