“She never sat down in a car but stood, braced tense, facing the wind. Now and again she would turn her face toward me with an apologetic expression as though to say: "I have not forgotten that you are here but there are certain pleasures I cannot share with you." Her nose never ceased its sensitive quivering.”
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Mazo de la Roche
Mazo de la Roche was a Canadian author renowned for her historical novels set in the early 19th century. She achieved fame with her novel 'The Stone Angel', which won the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction in 1964 and was adapted into a film. Born on January 15, 1879, in London, Ontario, she spent much of her life in the Niagara region of Ontario. more
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