"Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat."
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North Face (1948), Ch. 1
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Mary Renault
Mary Renault (born Mary Challans, 4 September 1905 – 13 December 1983) was an English writer most famous for her historical novels set in ancient Greece.
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