[Jacob’s Room by Virginia Woolf]@TWC D-Link bookJacob’s Room CHAPTER NINE 18/37
And to set that on foot read incredibly dull essays upon Marlowe to your friends.
For which purpose one most collate editions in the British Museum.
One must do the thing oneself.
Useless to trust to the Victorians, who disembowel, or to the living, who are mere publicists. The flesh and blood of the future depends entirely upon six young men. And as Jacob was one of them, no doubt he looked a little regal and pompous as he turned his page, and Julia Hedge disliked him naturally enough. But then a pudding-faced man pushed a note towards Jacob, and Jacob, leaning back in his chair, began an uneasy murmured conversation, and they went off together (Julia Hedge watched them), and laughed aloud (she thought) directly they were in the hall. Nobody laughed in the reading-room.
There were shirtings, murmurings, apologetic sneezes, and sudden unashamed devastating coughs.
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