shootingstar
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If mourners commented on how their loved ones looked so peaceful, so themselves, Robert didn't tell them it was the work of his fifteen-year-old nephew, but he always passed on the compliment.
'That's down to you. I may do a decent job, but they can't see those bits. What means most to them is the part you played.'
(From A Terrible Kindness by Jo Browning Wroe, Part III Family Business, chapter 36)
Don't the words in bold express a covert reproach there - a humorous one of course?
'That's down to you. I may do a decent job, but they can't see those bits. What means most to them is the part you played.'
(From A Terrible Kindness by Jo Browning Wroe, Part III Family Business, chapter 36)
Don't the words in bold express a covert reproach there - a humorous one of course?
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