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Enid Bagnold
“After a wet and muddy day in London I've seen the trains pull into Charing Cross with snow piled on the roofs of the carriages, and felt a foot taller for joy that I was one of those fortunate who might step into a train and go down into a white countryside.”
Enid Bagnold, A Diary Without Dates

Pierre de Coulevain
“La chapelle de l’Assomption avait pour elle un attrait curieux. Elle demandait souvent qu’il lui fût premise d’aider la religieuse à décorer l’autel. Elle le faisait comme une profane, avec de mouvements vifs, le rire aux lèvres, la voix un peu trop haute, insensible à la grande Présence qui rendait la soeur si craintive et si respectueuse. Les jours du marché de la Madeleine, elle revenait à Auteuil, sa voiture remplie de fleurs; elle allait deposer les plus belles aux pieds de la Vierge. C’était un homage qu’en vraie Américaine elle voulait rendre à son sexe. Elle aimait le catholicisme parce que, disait-elle avec un sans-gêne d’hérétique, il possède une déesse et que, seul de toutes les religions chrétiennes, il a élevé des autels aux femmes.”
Pierre De Coulevain, Eve victorieuse

Enid Bagnold
“Far down the corridor a slim figure in white approaches, dwarfed by the smoky distance; her nun-like cap floating, her scarlet cape, the "cape of pride," slipped round her narrow shoulders.
How intent and silent They are!
I watched this one pass with a look half reverence, half envy. One should never aspire to know a Sister intimately. They are disappointing people; without candour, without imagination. Yet what a look of personality hangs about them....”
Enid Bagnold, A Diary Without Dates

Enid Bagnold
“When a man dies they fetch him with a stretcher, just as he came in; only he enters with a blanket over him, and a flag covers him as he goes out. When he came in he was one of a convoy, but every man who can stand rises to his feet as he goes out. Then they play him to his funeral, to a grass mound at the back of the hospital.”
Enid Bagnold, A Diary Without Dates

Enid Bagnold
“Sometimes in the late evenings one walks busily up and down the ward doing this and that, forgetting that there is anything beyond the drawn blinds, engrossed in the patients, one's tasks - bed-making, washing, one errand and another - and then suddenly a blind will blow out and almost up to the ceiling, and through it you will catch a glimpse that makes you gasp, of a black night crossed with bladed searchlights, of a moon behind a crooked tree.
The lifting of the blind is a miracle; I do not believe in the wind.”
Enid Bagnold, A Diary Without Dates

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