Madame de Stael 109; on the character of Napoleon 110; on the French system of land tenure; on Lord Rosebery 111; on Creevey's Memoirs 112: she let it uphold her and sustain her, this admirable fabric of the masculine
intelligence, which ran up and down, crossed this way and that, like iron girders spanning the swaying fabric, upholding the world, 113 so that she could trust herself to it utterly, even shut her eyes, or flicker
them for a moment, as a child staring up from its pillow winks at the myriad layers of the leaves of a tree. Then she woke up. It was still being fabricated. William Bankes was praising the Waverly novels. 114
He read one of them every six months, he said. And why should that make Charles Tansley angry? He rushed in (all, thought Mrs. Ramsay, because Prue will no
