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Her voice broke in a gasp of melancholy; she stretched an arm and dusted from a corner of the kitchen a cobweb that had no existence, her eyesight dim with unbrimming tears.

From Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure by Munro, Neil