She felt a nausea of the soul, a hideous and sickening despair, a melancholy weariness so profound that she was going to die of it. (Philip Pullman)

She felt a nausea of the soul, a hideous and sickening despair, a melancholy weariness so profound that she was going to die of it.

Philip Pullman

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