The next morning I woke before my alarm and hurried over to the oval mirror in the hall.
Now in the mornings I rose with a kind of zest and went directly to the hall mirror, where even my tumbled hair gave me a look of casual confidence, and the shadowy folds under my eyes spoke of someone in the habit of facing and overcoming obstacles.
There it was, the oval mirror from the upstairs hall, leaning over a cellar window.
In place of the oval mirror in the upstairs hall, there was a framed painting of an old mill beside a brown pond with two ducks.
Early one morning, a week or so later, I stepped over to the oval mirror in the upstairs hall, as I did every morning before leaving for work.
This talk of passion coupled with all the curvy and angular lines could lead one to suspect that there's a certain randomness to Gehry's structures, exemplified in an episode of The Simpsons in which Gehry builds a concert hall to mirror a crumpled piece of paper he finds on the ground.
It struck me that before I could reach the oval mirror in the upstairs hall, I had to pass through the front hall, cross the dusky living room with its sagging couch, walk the length of the kitchen, and climb two sets of creaking stairs, the long one up to the landing and the short one up to the hall.
The Mirror's Jessica Callan said Hall lacked "spark or passion" with co-star Josh Cohen, while the Daily Express's David Smith said "some might have found her performance a case of more style than substance".
On Friday, Monica entered the front hall and stopped sharply when she saw the mirror.
Bring Up the Bodies, winner of this year's prize, continues Cromwell's story, to be concluded in The Mirror and the Light, the culmination of Mantel's Wolf Hall trilogy.
In the front hall, on the back of the front door, I hung a mirror framed in a dark wood that matched the color of the umbrella stand.
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