- Posted on: 1 February, 2021
- 17 Years Old
- #17 #1925 #Elizabeth Dalloway #Female #Mrs Dalloway #Novel
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Elizabeth Dalloway 17
The door opened. Elizabeth knew that her mother was resting. She came in very quietly. She stood perfectly still. Was it some Mongol had been wrecked on the coast of Norfolk (as Mrs. Hilbery said), had mixed with the Dalloway ladies, perhaps a hundred years ago? For the Dalloways, in general, were fair-haired; blue-eyed; Elizabeth, on the contrary, was dark; had Chinese eyes in a pale face; an Oriental mystery; was gentle, considerate, still. As a child, she had had a perfect sense of humour; but now at seventeen, why, Clarissa could not in the least understand, she had become very serious; like a hyacinth sheathed in glossy green, with buds just tinted, a hyacinth which had had no sun.
