“"Coming events cast their shadows before" quoted the clergyman…”

—  Flora Thompson

Source: Dashpers http://www.dashper.net.nz/dashpers.htm (unfinished, unpublished novel), Chapter Two - A House is built

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English author and poet 1876–1947

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