Harraden, Beatrice: Ships That Pass In The Night. v1. 24 Nov 2014
 

Beatrice Harraden (1864–1936) was a British writer and suffragette. Born in Hampstead, London on 24 January 1864, Harraden studied in Dresden, at Cheltenham

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A silence followed these words; the English community at that end of the table was struck with astonishment at hearing the Disagreeable Man speak. The few sentences he had spoken during the last four years at Petershof were on record; this was decidedly the longest of them all.