Of course it's alright for librarians to smell of drink.

Barbara Pym

Mots clés librarians

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One did not drink sherry before the evening, just as one did not read a novel in the morning.

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Mots clés novels sherry

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Perhaps there can be too much making of cups of tea, I thought, as I watched Miss Statham filling the heavy teapot. Did we really need a cup of tea? I even said as much to Miss Statham and she looked at me with a hurt, almost angry look, 'Do we need tea? she echoed. 'But Miss Lathbury...' She sounded puzzled and distressed and I began to realise that my question had struck at something deep and fundamental. It was the kind of question that starts a landslide in the mind. I mumbled something about making a joke and that of course one needed tea always, at every hour of the day or night.

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I love Evensong. There's something sad and essentially English about it.

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Dulcie always found a public library a little upsetting, for one saw so many odd people there.

Barbara Pym

Mots clés libraries

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I stretched out my hand towards the little bookshelf where I kept cookery and devotional books, the most comfortable bedside reading.

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Mots clés reading

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Oh, this coming back to an empty house,' Rupert thought, when he had seen her safely up to her door. People - though perhaps it was only women - seemed to make so much of it. As if life itself were not as empty as the house one was coming back to.

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Mots clés loneliness

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Sitting aimlessly in bedrooms- often on the bed itself- is another characteristic feature of the English holidays. The meal was over and it was only twenty five past seven. 'The evening stretches before us,' Viola said gloomily.

Barbara Pym

Mots clés england holiday

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She had always been an unashamed reader of novels.

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But of course, she remembered, that was why women were so wonderful; it was their love and imagination that transformed these unremarkable beings. For most men, when one came to think of it, were undistinguished to look at, if not positively ugly. Fabian was an exception, and perhaps love affairs with handsome men tended to be less stable because so much less sympathy and imagination were needed on the woman's part?

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