... kissed her on the lips.[...] And she felt that she had been given a present, wrapped up, and told just to keep it, not to look at it – a diamond, something infinitely precious, wrapped up, which as they walked [...] she uncovered, or the radiance burnt through, the revelation, the religious feeling! (Woolf 30) That was her self when some effort, some call on her to ... excited all over with pleasure at the thought of the past. Nevertheless, it is the past that fills Clarissa with pleasure-not the future, nor the present. Sally Seton, with whom Clarissa shared "the most exquisite moment...

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