oed reflection
Write an OED reflection regarding the following:
Novel: Lolly Willows by Sylvia Townsend Warner
Word: “decline”
Quote: “…Laura would pleasantly frighten herself with the thought of Emma’s ghost coming back to make music with cold fingers, stealing into the empty drawing-room as noiselessly as she had done. But Emma’s was a gentle ghost. Emma had died of a decline, and when she lay dead with a bunch of snowdrops under her folded palms a lock of her hair was cut off to be embroidered into a picture of a willow tree exhaling its branches above a padded white satin tomb. ‘That,’ said Laura’s mother, ‘is a heirloom of your great-aunt Emma who died.’ And laura was sorry for the poor young lady who alone, it seemed to her, of all her relations had had the misfortune to die.â€(Page 12).
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Word limit: approx. 300 words