Jacob's Room (Oxford World's Classics) by Woolf Virginia

Author:Woolf, Virginia
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2008-06-12T04:00:00+00:00

‘There’s not much to be said for this sort of thing, is there?’ said Timothy Durrant to Jacob.

‘Women like it.’

‘Like what?’ said Charlotte Wilding, coming up to them.

‘Where have you come from?’ said Timothy. ‘Dining somewhere, I suppose.’

‘I don’t see why not,’ said Charlotte.

‘People must go downstairs,’ said Clara, passing. ‘Take Charlotte, Timothy. How d’you do, Mr Flanders.’

‘How d’you do, Mr Flanders,’ said Julia Eliot, holding out her hand. ‘What’s been happening to you?’

‘Who is Silvia? what is she?

That all our swains commend her?’*

sang Elsbeth Siddons.

Every one stood where they were, or sat down if a chair was empty.

‘Ah,’ sighed Clara, who stood beside Jacob, halfway through.

‘Then to Silvia let us sing,

That Silvia is excelling;

She excels each mortal thing

Upon the dull earth dwelling.

To her let us garlands bring,’

sang Elsbeth Siddons.

‘Ah!’ Clara exclaimed out loud, and clapped her gloved hands; and Jacob clapped his bare ones; and then she moved forward and directed people to come in from the doorway.

‘You are living in London?’ asked Miss Julia Eliot.

‘Yes,’ said Jacob.

‘In rooms?’

‘Yes.’

‘There is Mr Clutterbuck. You always see Mr Clutterbuck here. He is not very happy at home, I am afraid. They say that Mrs Clutterbuck …’ she dropped her voice. ‘That’s why he stays with the Durrants. Were you there when they acted Mr Wortley’s play? Oh, no, of course not—at the last moment, did you hear—you had to go to join your mother, I remember, at Harrogate—At the last moment, as I was saying, just as everything was ready, the clothes finished and everything—Now Elsbeth is going to sing again. Clara is playing her accompaniment or turning over for Mr Carter, I think. No, Mr Carter is playing by himself—This is Bach,’ she whispered, as Mr Carter played the first bars.

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