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<Title>Mrs. Dalloway</Title> 
<Date>1924</Date> 
<Edition>London: The Hogarth Press, 1954</Edition> 
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<p>Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers 
herself. 
<p>For Lucy had her work cut out for her.  The 
doors would be taken off their hinges;  Rumpelmayer's 
men were coming.  And then, thought 
Clarissa Dalloway, what a morning -- fresh as if 
issued to children on a beach. 
<p>What a lark!  What a plunge!  For so it had 
always seemed to her, when, with a little squeak 
of the hinges, which she could hear now, she had 
burst open the French windows and plunged at 
Bourton into the open air.  How fresh, how calm, 
stiller than this of course, the air was in the early 
morning; like the flap of a wave; the kiss of a 
wave; chill and sharp and yet (for a girl of eighteen 
as she then was) solemn, feeling as she did, standing 
there at the open window, that something awful . . .