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" In the Queen's prayerbook, along with the
blood-stain, was also a lock of hair and a crumb of pastry; Orlando now
added to these keepsakes a flake of tobacco, and so, reading and smoking,
was moved by the humane jumble of them all--the hair, the pastry, the
blood-stain, the tobacco--to such a mood of contemplation as gave her a
reverent air suitable in the circumstances, though she had, it is said,
no traffic with the usual God. "

Virginia Woolf


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Virginia Woolf quote : In the Queen's prayerbook, along with the<br />blood-stain, was also a lock of hair and a crumb of pastry; Orlando now<br />added to these keepsakes a flake of tobacco, and so, reading and smoking,<br />was moved by the humane jumble of them all--the hair, the pastry, the<br />blood-stain, the tobacco--to such a mood of contemplation as gave her a<br />reverent air suitable in the circumstances, though she had, it is said,<br />no traffic with the usual God.