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“THOUGH the sun was hot on this July morning Mrs Lucas preferred to cover the half-mile that lay between the station and her house on her own brisk feet, and sent on her maid and her luggage in the fly that her husband had ordered to meet her.”

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E. F. Benson книга Queen Lucia

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Queen Lucia (1920)

“The hours of the morning between breakfast and lunch were the time which the inhabitants of Riseholme chiefly devoted to spying on each other”

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E. F. Benson книга Queen Lucia

Источник: Queen Lucia (1920), p. 43.

“Vermouth always makes me brilliant unless it makes me idiotic, but we'll hope for the best.”

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E. F. Benson книга Queen Lucia

Источник: Queen Lucia (1920), p. 222.