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'The bright spaces of her room, which were lit by the morning sunshine and her happiness as by a lamp with a double wick, pleased her as being just right for what she felt. It was because she had hoped that she would wake up one day feeling like this that she made them so the walls like that, pale green and faintly streaked in the lower half with very fine gold lines, fine as the lines on the petals of a crocus ...'

'Wistfully she gazes at the crowd, who in their dull clothes looked dark and strong like trees in winter. Down among them, from the tops of the long windows on one side of the hall, there slanted down shafts of pale, dusty sunlight, like blessings from gods that were benign but had begun to doubt their own omnipotence, to vacillate; that could not now match their own creations in sturdiness...'