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The years had a way of piling themselves one atop the next, unnoticed and uncounted; that was how young men turned into old ones.

— Keith Roberts Pavane (1968)

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She stopped dead; and the look in her eyes showed plainly she’d just received the import of a crude lesson in economics.

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A death was more than an ending; it was like pulling a thread from a richly patterned cloth.

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The waves were indifferent, and the wind; and the rocks neither knew nor cared who owned them, Christ’s Vicar or an English King.

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She curled her lip. She had discovered cynicism.

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