Mary Olivier: a Life
May Sinclair · English
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Mary Olivier: a Life
May Sinclair · English
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BOOK ONE INFANCY (1865-1869) I I. The curtain of the big bed hung down beside the cot. When old Jenny shook it the wooden rings rattled on the pole and grey men with pointed heads and squat, bulging bodies came out of the folds on to the flat green ground. If you looked at them they turned into squab faces smeared with green. Every night, when Jenny had gone away with the doll and the donkey, you hunched up the blanket and the stiff white counterpane to hide the curtain and
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