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her own with the other dame. Clemence is no mean gossipper when she gets going, but she has a worthy adversary in the other one. Clemence relies for effect upon swift dialogue form of narrative, with plenty of "qui dit's" interspersed in exactly the same degree as English gossips repeat the English equivalent: "he says says he". The other depends more on dramatic gesture, & sudden raisings of the voice.
For Literature tonight I dwelt on the Arthurian Legends & read the "Morte D'Arthur". Being rather fagged, however, I spoiled what I had hoped would have been a good lecture, by lack of spirit. Pay caused a slight postponement.
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