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In my teens I used to talk to Maud Gonne. She lived about a quarter of a mile away in Roebuck House and occasionally took a walk along our road, dressed in black from head to foot of her tall, bent but graceful body, her eyes large and luminous with a hint of mesmeric qualities, her voice elegantly modulated. She admired our cats, she liked flowers, she seemed to drift along, just a little tired, just a little detached from the life around her, yet recording what she saw with clarity, apprehending its details effortlessly.
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© 1992 Deirdre Toomey
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Jeffares, A.N. (1992). Maud Gonne: Some Impressions. In: Toomey, D. (eds) Yeats and Women. Yeats Annual. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11928-8_10
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