"Augustus sat hunched on the sofa, strangely shrunken; even the Charvet dressing gown had an air of ruin."
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Splendid in Ashes (New York: The Viking Press, 1958) ch. 4, p. 127
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Josephine Pinckney
Josephine Lyons Scott Pinckney (January 25, 1895 – October 4, 1957) was a novelist and poet in the literary revival of the American South after World War I. Her first best-selling novel was the social comedy Three O'Clock Dinner (1945)
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