The mind of man, moreover, works with equal strangeness upon the body of time. An hour, once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit, may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length; on the other hand, an hour may be accurately represented on the timepiece of the mind by one second.
Little Mr. Bowley, who had rooms in the Albany and was sealed with wax over the deeper sources of life but could be unsealed suddenly, inappropriately, sentimentally, by this sort of thing___oor women waiting to see the Queen go past___oor women, nice little children, orphans, widows, the War___ut tut___ctually had tears in his eyes.
Mrs. Dalloway
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Little Mr. Bowley, who had rooms in the Albany and was sealed with wax over the deeper sources of life but could be unsealed suddenly, inappropriately, sentimentally, by this sort of thing___oor women waiting to see the Queen go past___oor women, nice little children, orphans, widows, the War___ut tut___ctually had tears in his eyes.
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