Chapter 4 quotes Flashcards
1
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‘The immense accretion of flesh…
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…which had descended upon her in her middle life like a flood of lava on a doomed city’
2
Q
‘Her visitors were startled…
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…and fascinated by the foreignness of this arrangement, which recalled scenes in French fiction’
3
Q
‘To the general relief, the Countess Olenska…
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… was not present in her grandmother’s drawing room during the visit of the betrothed couple, Mrs Mingott said she had gone out; which on a day at such glaring sunlight, and at the “shopping hour” seemed in itself an indelicate thing for a compromised women to do’
4
Q
“As soon as ever,…
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…it can, if only you’ll back me up Mrs Mingott’
