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But Fuchsia might as well have been carved from dark marble. Only her tears moved.


Mervyn Peake

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And hardly ever went to bed
Before it was eleven.
...
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Weak cough into all blackness I could yet
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MERVYN PEAKE Linger now with me, thou Beauty,
On the sharp archaic shore.
Surely 'tis a wastrel's dut...
MERVYN PEAKE I shall live alone. Always alone. In a house or a tree.'

Fuchsia started to chew at a fre...
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