Part 4

Part 4

Peter
1. "As for caring what they said of him... he cared not a straw"
2. "I can't keep up with them"
3. "He had escaped! was utterly free"
4. "stealthily fingering his pocket-knife"
Clarissa
1. "Clarissa had grown hard... and a trifle sentimental into the bargain"
  Annotations:
  - "into the bargain" implies that life is about what you win; luck of the draw
2. "a sort of timidity, which in middle age becomes conventionality"
3. "'There's my Elizabeth; - that sort of thing - why not 'Here's Elizabeth' simply?"
4. "she trusts to her charm too much... she overdoes it"
5. Clarissa "may be too stiff, too glittery and tinsely"
  Annotations:
  - Virginia's own feelings about Clarissa are expressed through Peter's criticism
London
1. St Margeret's
  Annotations:
  - Peter compares it to Clarissa, for Richard is Westminster
  1. Small church for MPs
    Annotations:
    - Next to Westminster
  2. "the voice of the hostess, is reluctant to inflict its individuality. Some grief for the past holds it back; some concern for the present"
2. Whitehall
  1. "strict in step, up Whitehall"
  2. "Empty tomb"
    Annotations:
    - Honouring the dead, but it is "empty", pointless
3. Trafalgar
  1. Gordon
    1. "Gordon whom as a boy he had worshipped; Gordon standing lonely with one leg raised and his arms crossed"
  2. Havelock and Nelson
    1. "the exalted statues"
4. "the pulse of a perfect heart, life struck straight through the streets"
5. "A splendid achievement in its own way, after all, London; the season; civilization"
6. "a personal possession; moments of pride in England; in butlers; chow dogs; girls in their security"
"overcome with shame suddenly at having been a fool; wept"
"As a cloud crosses the sun, silence falls on London; and falls on the mind"
"for one must invent, must allow oneself a little diversion"

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