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“She could make very cutting remarks, but seldom, I think, with real bitterness: there was an underlying humor, an irony, that saved them from being truly malicious. This, indeed, was a sort of Bloomsbury ‘game’, in which Lytton Strachey, was perhaps the supreme champion, and which has not been sufficiently understood by people, who never knew them personally and have taken their sharp remarks too seriously.”