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was and there
The easiest thing would be to sell out to Al Budd and leave the country, but there was a stubborn streak in him that wouldn't allow it.
Both had blonde hair and blue eyes, and there was even a faint similarity of features.
They might kill him in his sleep, thinking there was money in the house.
He was thinking of Rittenhouse and how he had left him there, to rock to death on the porch of the Splendide.
Someone evidently was on duty there.
there was no doubt he was dying.
The coyote was calling again, and he hoped that this time there would be no other sounds to interrupt it.
Well, the grass was there, though in some places the ground was too steep for a cow to get to it.
The water was there, so much of it that it spread all through the dead orchard.
And there was a house ; ;
But there was water.
Yes, there was plenty of water, too much, and that was probably the trouble.
He had looked over my forms and was impressed by what he had seen there ; ;
Unconcerned, indifferent, unmotivated, the forest was simply there -- fighting man's depredations with more abundant growth and man's follies with its own musical evening laughter.
But she'd known plenty of handsomer guys, and, conceding his good looks, what was there left??
He himself had heard that there was gangster money in the company, but that had nothing to do with him.
And then there was a numbing blow to the heart, and another gut-flattening blow to the stomach
No man laid a hand on him, but the threat of violence was there.
Prosecutor Baird immediately assumed he was hiding out there after the shooting and began preparing an indictment.
Again he stood in the darkness listening, but there was only the scrape of a shod hoof on a plank floor.
Seeing them waiting there at the foot of Emigrant Rock was so overwhelming that, for a good minute after they rounded the bend and started down the grade leading toward them, Matilda could not speak at all.

was and she
They were dirty, their clothes were torn, and the girl was so exhausted that she fell when she was still twenty feet from the front door.
She was amazingly light, and so relaxed in his arms that he wasn't even sure she was conscious.
`` I'm a mess '', she said, and suddenly she was alarmed.
He treats her like she was dirt.
He was thinking that the way she had responded to his own kiss hadn't meant what he had believed it had.
He might tell her how sorry a spectacle she was making of herself, pretending to be blind to the way Julia Fortune had taken Dean's affections from her.
She was carrying a quirt, and she started to raise it, then let it fall again and dangle from her wrist.
He got up slowly, and she was already on her feet, and he stood facing her.
He had forgotten that she was so pretty.
When they reached their neighbor's house, Pamela said a few polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impulse prompted by a stray thought -- of the type to which she was frequently subject these days -- that they might never see one another again.
But she was caught in it, and she faced the terrible possibility that, if it were a dream, it was one from which she might never awaken.
Facing the forest now, she who had not dared to enter it before, walked between two trees at random and headed in what she believed was the direction of the pool.
Was it not possible, after all, that the forest was in league with her and her child that its sympathy lay with the Culvers that she had erred in failing to understand this??

was and would
He was silent a moment, thinking he could use a man this time of year, and if the girl could cook, it would give him more time in the meadows, but he knew nothing about the couple.
Dawn would come soon and the night was at its coldest.
Cabot turned back to the men and he was drunk with the thing they would do, wild to break from the cloying warmth of the saloon into the cold of the ebbing night.
Evidently this was a precaution so that mounts would be available in an emergency.
The only thing which would have attracted attention was that two wore the uniform of prison guards, three the striped suits of convicts.
If, when this was all over, she found the words to tell him about it, she wondered if he would ever understand.
She was sure she would reach the pool by climbing, and she clung to that belief despite the increasing number of obstacles.
At one and the same time, she was within it but still searching for the drawbridge that would give her entry.
Somehow more terrible than the certainty that he was about to die was the knowledge that Lord would probably not suffer for it: the murder would go unpunished.
This, he was sure, was the way they would act ; ;
But her mother would rebuke her if she mentioned it, and say that it was none of her concern.
A man like Jess would want to have a ready means of escape in case it was needed.
Probably his horse would be close to where he was hiding.
From the way the wound in his head was itching, Dan knew that it would heal.
Russ ran through the bills and named an amount it was highly unlikely any cowpuncher would come by honestly.
`` Gyp Carmer couldn't have known about Colcord's money unless he was told -- and who else would have told him ''??
There was a feeling that this mission would be canceled like all the others and that this muddy wet dark world of combat would go on forever.

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