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TO THE LIGHTHOUSEmade her drop plumb like a stone, alight exact asa bird, gave her, naturally, this swoop and fall ofthe spirit upon truth which delighted, eased,sustained—falsely perhaps.("Nature has but little clay," said Mr. Bankesonce, hearingmuchmoved byVW: “much moved by” inserted to replace “hearing” —saraheilefsonher voice on the telephone, and muchmoved by it[%]though she was only telling him a factabout a train, "like that of which she mouldedyou." For her beauty seemed to imply all that.Generous, noble, true—the obvious words camequicker to the lips because such qualities—hethought of her at the end of the telephone—seemed in her to have dipped their disembodiedshapes in flesh and so assembling, like a ring ofGraces joining hands in meadows of asphodel, tohave combined together to compose her face.He sawher atthe endof the linetelephoneveryclearlyGreek,straight,blue-eyedThis insertion in the left margin begins opposite the beginning of the eight-line deletion. It appears to have ended without punctuation and may have been meant at the only replacement. However the insertion at the foot of the page carriesHow incongruous it seemed to be telephoningto a woman like that. The graces assemblingseemed to have joined hands in meadows ofasphodel to compose that face. He would catch the10.30 at Euston. VW: Insertion lassoed with line indicating replacement for eigh-line deletion after ‘moulded you.”’ "ButYet Ambiguous placement and shape of “yet” allows its position in two places: “yet blue-eyed” or as a replacement for the cancelled “But” beginning the next paragraph. —saraheilefsonVW: This insertion in the left margin begins opposite the beginning of the eight-line deletion. It appears to have ended without punctuation and may have been meant as the only replacement. However the insertion at the foot of the page carries —saraheilefsonshe’s no more aware of her beauty thanStart HB: Pencil or black grease marker with line to marginal note “Start”--probably indicating where typesetting was to resume. —saraheilefsona HB: Pencil or black grease marker with line to marginal note “Start”--may be by a compositor indicating where the next compositor was to begin typesetting.child," said Mr. Bankes, replacing the receiverand crossing the room to see what progress theworkmen were making with an hotel which theywere building at the back of his house. And hethought of Mrs. Ramsay as he looked at that stiramong the unfinished walls. For always, hethought, there was something incongruous to beworked into the harmony of her face. She clappeda deer-stalkers's hat on her head; she ran acrossthe lawn in goloshes to snatch a child frommischief. So that if it was her beauty merely50
