[The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf]@TWC D-Link bookThe Voyage Out CHAPTER V 21/28
"Who was Burke ?" "No? Well, then I shall make a point of sending you a copy.
_The_ _Speech_ _on_ _the_ _French_ _Revolution_--_The_ _American_ _Rebellion_? Which shall it be, I wonder ?" He noted something in his pocket-book. "And then you must write and tell me what you think of it.
This reticence--this isolation--that's what's the matter with modern life! Now, tell me about yourself.
What are your interests and occupations? I should imagine that you were a person with very strong interests.
Of course you are! Good God! When I think of the age we live in, with its opportunities and possibilities, the mass of things to be done and enjoyed--why haven't we ten lives instead of one? But about yourself ?" "You see, I'm a woman," said Rachel. "I know--I know," said Richard, throwing his head back, and drawing his fingers across his eyes. "How strange to be a woman! A young and beautiful woman," he continued sententiously, "has the whole world at her feet.
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