
"But now while she still looked, Mr Bankes had done. He had put on his spectacles. He had stepped back. He had raised his hand. He had slightly narrowed his clear blue eyes, when Lily, rousing herself, saw what he was at, and winced like a dog who sees a hand raised to strike it. She would have snatched her picture off the easel, but she said to herself, One must. She braced herself to stand the awful trial of someone looking at her picture. One must, she said, one must. And if it must be seen, Mr. Bankes was less alarming than another. But that any other eyes should see the residue of her thirty-three years, the deposit of each day's living, mixed with something more secret than she had ever spoken or shown in the course of all those days was an agony. At the same time it was immensely exciting.
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She stopped; she did not want to bore him; she took the canvas lightly off the easel. But it had been seen; it had been taken from her. This man had shared with her something profoundly intimate".
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She stopped; she did not want to bore him; she took the canvas lightly off the easel. But it had been seen; it had been taken from her. This man had shared with her something profoundly intimate".
Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

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Se paró; no quería aburrirle; quitó el lienzo con ligereza del caballete. Pero había sido visto; le había sido arrebatado. Este hombre había compartido con ella algo profundamente íntimo.]