Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongrui George Eliot Quotes
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Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.

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