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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Monday or Tuesday, by Virginia Woolf This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Monday or Tuesday Author: Virginia Woolf Release Date: June 25, 2009 [EBook #29220] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MONDAY OR TUESDAY *** Produced by Meredith Bach, Martin Pettit and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.) Monday or Tuesday _By_ VIRGINIA WOOLF [Illustration: Publisher's logo] NEW YORK HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY 1921 COPYRIGHT, 1921, BY HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY, INC. PRINTED IN THE U. S. A. BY THE QUINN & BODEN COMPANY RAHWAY, N. J. CONTENTS PAGE A HAUNTED HOUSE 3 A SOCIETY 9 MONDAY OR TUESDAY 41 AN UNWRITTEN NOVEL 45 THE STRING QUARTET 71 BLUE AND GREEN 81 KEW GARDENS 83 THE MARK ON THE WALL 99 MONDAY OR TUESDAY A HAUNTED HOUSE Whatever hour you woke there was a door shutting. From room to room they went, hand in hand, lifting here, opening there, making sure--a ghostly couple. "Here we left it," she said. And he added, "Oh, but here too!" "It's upstairs," she murmured. "And in the garden," he whispered. "Quietly," they said, "or we shall wake them." But it wasn't that you woke us. Oh, no. "They're looking for it; they're drawing the curtain," one might say, and so read on a page or two. "Now they've found it," one would be certain, stopping the pencil on the margin. And then, tired of reading, one might rise and see for oneself, the house all empty, the doors standing open, only the wood pigeons bubbling with content and the hum of the threshing machine sounding from the farm. "What did I come in here for? What did I want to find?" My hands were empty. "Perhaps it's upstairs then?" The apples were in the loft. And so down again, the garden still as ever, only the book had slipped into the grass. But they had found it in the drawing room. Not that one cou
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