Virginia Woolf · 1923
Clarissa Dalloway walks through London to buy gloves: the 1923 short story that grew into the novel Mrs Dalloway. Read Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street by Virginia…
Big Ben was striking as she stepped out into the street. It was eleven o'clock and the unused hour was fresh as if issued to children on a beach. But there was something solemn in the deliberate swing of the repeated strokes; something stirring in the murmur of wheels and the shuffle of footsteps.
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