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The thing came on her like a thunderbolt, and indeed while she was submitting to destiny the phrase ‘like a bolt from the blue’ did detach itself for an instant in her consciousness, but it was fallen upon and buried by the avalanche of emotions and angers and plannings which her mind was trying so vainly to deal with.
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McFate, P.A. (1983). Crêpe de Chine. In: McFate, P.A. (eds) Uncollected Prose of James Stephens. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17094-4_6
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