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Little as she was addicted to solitude, there had come to be moments when it seemed a welcome escape from the empty noises of her life.

Edith Wharton (2013). “House of Mirth and the Age of Innocence”, p.218, Simon and Schuster
Little as she was addicted to solitude, there had come to be moments when it seemed a welcome escape from the empty noises of her life.