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Sabina's initial inner revolt against Communism was aesthetic rather than ethical in character. What repelled her was not nearly so much the ugliness of the Communist world (ruined castles transformed into cow sheds) as the mask of beauty it tried to wear, in other words, Communist kitsch.
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    My head-dress was a bugle-band like the border to my gown, and a flower of Mrs Tilson's. I depended upon hearing something of the evening from Mr. W. k., and am very well satisfied with his notice of me, "a pleasing looking young woman", that must do; one cannot pretend to anything better now; thankful to have it continued a few years longer!
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