Mrs. Dalloway

Woolf, Virginia

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Persistenter Identifier:: 1587379186465

Titel:: Mrs. Dalloway

Autor:: Woolf, Virginia

Verleger/Verlag:: Chatto and Windus

Erscheinungsort:: London

Erscheinungsjahr:: 1968

Umfang:: 213 S.

Sprache:: englisch

Strukturtyp:: Monografie

Standort:: Bibliothek der Institut für Linguistik und Literaturwissenschaft, Universität Stuttgart

Signatur:: VEN7--WOO2/8

Lizenz:: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/deed.de

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MRS. DALLOWAY And for a second she wore a look of extreme dignity standing by the flower shop in the sunlight while the car passed at a foot’s pace, with its blinds drawn. The Queen going to some hospital ; the Queen opening some bazaar, thought Clarissa. The crush was terrific for the time of day. Lords, Ascot, Hurlingham, what was it? she wondered, for the street was blocked. The British middle classes sit- ting sideways on the tops of omnibuses with parcels and umbrellas, yes, even furs on a day like this, were, she thought, more ridiculous, more unlike anything there has ever been than one could conceive; and the Queen herself held up; the Queen herself unable to pass. Clarissa was suspended on one side of Brook Street; Sir John Buckhurst, the old Judge, on the other, with the car between them (Sir John had laid down the law for years and liked a well-dressed woman) when the chauffeur, leaning ever so slightly, said or showed some- thing to the policeman, who saluted and raised his arm and jerked his head and moved the omnibus to the side and the car passed through. Slowly and very silently it took its way. Clarissa guessed; Clarissa knew of course; she had seen something white, magical, circular, in the foot- man’s hand, a disc inscribed with a name,—the Queen’s, the Prince of Wales's, the Prime Minister’s P— which, by force of its own lustre, burnt its way through (Clarissa saw the car diminishing, disappearing), to blaze among candelabras, glittering stars, breasts stiff with oak leaves, Hugh Whitbread and all his colleagues, the gentlemen of England, that night in Buckingham Palace. And Clarissa, too, gave a party. She stiffened a little; so she would stand at the top of her stairs. The car had gone, but it had left a slight ripple 20

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