He lay on his chair with his hands clasped above his paunch not reading, or sleeping, but basking like a creature gorged with existence. (Virginia Woolf)

He lay on his chair with his hands clasped above his paunch not reading, or sleeping, but basking like a creature gorged with existence.

Virginia Woolf

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