exhilarating and unbearably personal

"I've just seen the way you've handled all this with so much grace and kindness. You're so surprised, just when I think you're at capacity you find something really beautiful in a situation that gives you so much joy and energy that I'm just like, 'wow'." - OLIVIA COOKE

His style changed. Abandoning caution, he swiped the ball into the fern. Lifting his eyes, he met Maurice’s and smiled. Lost ball. Next time he hit a boundary. He was untrained, but had the cricketing build, and the game took o some semblance of reality. Maurice played up too. His mind had cleared, and he felt that they were against the whole world, that not only Mr Borenius and the field but the audience in the shed and all of England were closing round the wickets. They played for the sake of each other and their fragile relationship– if one fell the other would follow. They intended no harm on the world, but so along as it attacked they must punish, they must stand wary, ten hit with full strength, they must show that when two are gathered together majorities shall not triumph.

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