“She seemed to say "Look at me. I have done my share. I am beautiful. It is something quite out of the ordinary, this beauty of mine. I am made for delight. But what do I get out of it? Where is my reward?"”

— Evelyn Waugh , book Brideshead Revisited

Part 3, Chapter 4
Brideshead Revisited (1945)

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