Night and Day by Virginia Woolf (love story novels in english .txt) ๐
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Although known for her later experiments with style and structure, Virginia Woolf set out in her early novels to master the traditional form. Her second novel, Night and Day, presents itself as a seemingly conventional marriage plot, complete with love triangles, broken engagements, and unrequited affections. Beneath these conventional trappings, however, the bookโs deeper concerns are resolutely subversive. The main charactersโa quartet of friends and would-be loversโcome together, pull apart, and struggle to reconcile socially-prescribed norms of love and marriage with their own beliefs and ambitions.
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โBut Iโm in love with you!โ he exclaimed, with something like dismay. He leant against the windowsill, looking over the city as she had looked. Everything had become miraculously different and completely distinct. His feelings were justified and needed no further explanation. But he must impart them to someone, because his discovery was so important that it concerned other people too. Shutting the book of Greek photographs, and hiding his relics, he ran downstairs, snatched his coat, and passed out of doors.
The lamps were being lit, but the streets were dark enough and empty enough to let him walk his fastest, and to talk aloud as he walked. He had no doubt where he was going. He was going to find Mary Datchet. The desire to share what he felt, with someone who understood it, was so imperious that he did not question it. He was soon in her street. He ran up the stairs leading to her flat two steps at a time, and it never crossed his mind that she might not be at home. As he rang her bell, he seemed to himself to be announcing the presence of something wonderful that was separate from himself, and gave him power and authority over all other people. Mary came to the door after a momentโs pause. He was perfectly silent, and in the dusk his face looked completely white. He followed her into her room.
โDo you know each other?โ she said, to his extreme surprise, for he had counted on finding her alone. A young man rose, and said that he knew Ralph by sight.
โWe were just going through some papers,โ said Mary. โMr. Basnett has to help me, because I donโt know much about my work yet. Itโs the new society,โ she explained. โIโm the secretary. Iโm no longer at Russell Square.โ
The voice in which she gave this information was so constrained as to sound almost harsh.
โWhat are your aims?โ said Ralph. He looked neither at Mary nor at Mr. Basnett. Mr. Basnett thought he had seldom seen a more disagreeable or formidable man than this friend of Maryโs, this sarcastic-looking, white-faced Mr. Denham, who seemed to demand, as if by right, an account of their proposals, and to criticize them before he had heard them. Nevertheless, he explained his projects as clearly as he could, and knew that he wished Mr. Denham to think well of them.
โI see,โ said Ralph, when he had done. โDโyou know, Mary,โ he suddenly remarked, โI believe Iโm in for a cold. Have you any quinine?โ The look which he cast at her frightened her; it expressed mutely, perhaps without his own consciousness, something deep, wild, and passionate. She left the room at once. Her heart beat fast at the knowledge of Ralphโs presence; but it beat with pain, and with an extraordinary fear. She stood listening for a moment to the voices in the next room.
โOf course, I agree with you,โ she heard Ralph say, in this strange voice, to Mr. Basnett. โBut thereโs more that might be done. Have you seen Judson, for instance? You should make a point of getting
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