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Drape

  • Writer: John Service
    John Service
  • Aug 31
  • 1 min read


She behaved like most of us do when in love; she never thought of her beloved as a human being at all, but only as an image upon which to drape dreams.

Stella Gibbons,  short story "The  Hoofer and  the Lady", (Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm,  Longman, 1940)

 
 
 

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