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But what after all is one night? A short space, especially when the
134 See note 133.
135 Here and below in this section, Woolf uses parentheses to show action going on in the background.
darkness dims so soon, and so soon a bird sings, a c**k crows, or a faint green quickens, like a turning leaf, in the hollow of the wave. Night, however, succeeds to night. The winter holds a pack of them in store and deals them equally, evenly, with indefatigable fingers.
They lengthen; they darken. Some of them hold aloft clear planets, plates of brightness. The autumn trees, ravaged as they are, take on the flash of tattered flags kindling in t
