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The dowager rose and slipped from her pew. There was the sound of tearing silk as she threw up her arms to embrace her son. Then: Oh, Rupert, darling, she exclaimed in tones of theatrical despair, don't you see? The game's up!
Eva Ibbotson
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Eva Ibbotson
Age: 85 †
Born: 1925
Born: January 25
Died: 2010
Died: October 20
Novelist
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Vienna
Austria
Maria Charlotte Michelle Wiesner
Eva Maria Charlotte Michelle Wiesner
Eva Maria Charlotte Michelle Ibbotson
Rose
Tearing
Son
Tones
Embrace
Silk
Arms
Threw
Game
Theatrical
Dowager
Games
Darling
Rupert
Sound
Tone
Exclaimed
Despair
Slipped
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