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““It’s very quiet now,” she thought. She opened her eyes wide, and she heard the silence spinning its soft endless web.”

— Katherine Mansfield, from ‘Prelude’, first published in 1918.

“Lovely, lovely hair. And such a mass of it. It had the colour of fresh fallen leaves, brown and red with a glint of yellow. When she did it in a long plait she felt it on her backbone like a long snake.”

— Katherine Mansfield, from ‘Prelude’, first published in 1918.