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'She knelt in prayer, and then lay down in bed, tucking the blankets confortably about her, and in a few minutes her breathing showed that she was asleep. With its profoundly peaceful sighs and hesitations it resembled that of a cow standing up to its knees all night through in the grass.'

''They'll get someone else to take my place,' she said cheerfully. But she was wrong. No attempt was made to find another player, and after the young man had built three storeys of a card-house, which fell down, the players strolled off in different directions.'

'Mr Pepper with all his learning had been mistaken for a cormorant, and then, as unjustly, transformed into a cow.'

'From a distance the Euphrosyne looked very small. Glasses were turned upon her from the decks of great liners, and she was pronounced a tramp, a cargo-boat or one of those wretched little passenger steamers where people rolled about among the cattle on deck.'

(How did she make almost every sentence brim with, joy? beauty? internalized external observation and/or imagination? something else?)