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She and could
She showed her surprise by tightening the reins and moving the gelding around so
that she
could get a better look at his face
.
She remembered little
of her previous journey there with Grace
, and she
could but hope
that her dedication to her mission would enable her to accomplish it
.
She could not scream
, for even if a sound
could take shape within her parched mouth
, who would hear
, who would listen??
She wished
that she
could talk to her mother about it
.
She realized I'd
have to notify the police
, but fervently hoped I
could avoid mentioning her
name.
She even devised a system
of colors
, whereby the boy
could easily distinguish the different note values
.
She could not resist the opportunity ``
of showing her superiority in argument over a man '' which she had remarked as one
of the `` feminine follies ''
of Sara Sullam ; ;
She read everything else she
could get her hands on
, including an article ( she thinks it was in the Atlantic Monthly ) by Mark Twain on `` White Slavery ''
.
She could not face coffee or tea without milk
, and was always craving types
of food
that were not available aboard a sailing ship
.
She ended her letter with the assurance
that she considered his friendship for her daughter and herself to
be an honor
, from which she
could not part `` without still more pain ''
.
She was wise enough to realize a man
could be good company even if he did weigh too much and didn't own the mint
.
She could act and she
could write
.
She was not a girl
, he
could see
.
She thought again
of her children
, those two who had died young
, before the later science which might
have saved them
could attach even a label to their separate malignancies
.
She felt the look and looked back because she
could not help it
, seeing
that he was neither as old nor as thick as she had at
first believed
.
She also taught them to sing `` I wish I
could shimmy like
my sister Kate ''
.
She could see
that Mr. Gorboduc was intrigued ; ;
She found she
could cope with all kinds
of problems for which she was once considered too helpless
.
She thought she had great possibilities in the ballet and wanted to show the eminent producer how well she
could dance
.
She could do no wrong at the tables
that time
.
She didn't like her stepmother
, but nothing is known to
have occurred shortly before the crime
that could have caused such a murderous rage
.

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She snarled terribly but intuition told him
, again
, that she was bluffing
, and he
could see
that half her attention was distracted by the dogs
.
She whirled and faced him
, roaring terribly
, and Ulyate
, watching through the leaves
, could not understand why she did not charge and obliterate him
, because he
wouldn't have much
of a chance
of getting away
, in
that thick growth
, but she seemed just a trace uncertain ; ;
She and have
She seemed to
have come such a long distance
-- too far for her destination which had wilfully been swallowed up in the greedy gloom
of the trees
.
She didn't
have the heart
.
She might
have been someone he had once loved
.
She wrote in her journal
, `` I
have not heard the least profane language since I
have been on board the vessel
.
She used to tell me
, `` When I stand there and look at the flag blowing this way and
that way
, I
have the wonderful
, safe feeling
that Americans are protected no matter which way the wind blows ''
.
She was the opposite
of everything she should
have been
-- a positive pole in a negative home
, a living reaction
of warmth and kindness to the harsh reality
of her father
.

``
She wants you and Barbara to
have dinner with her tomorrow night ''
.
She usually wore weeds
, and a stranger watching her board a train might
have guessed
that Mr. Pastern was dead
, but Mr. Pastern was far from dead
.
She would
have said triumph
.
She had surprised Hans like she had surprised me when she said she'd go
, and then she surprised him again when she came back so quick like she must
have, because when I came in with the snow she was there with a bottle with three white feathers on its label and Hans was holding it angrily by the throat
.
She ascribed her delight with both experiences to the effect they seemed to
have of temporarily removing from her the controls which she felt so compulsively necessary to maintain even when it might seem appropriate to relax these controls
.
She teamed up with another beauty
, whose
name has been lost to history
, and commenced with some fiddling
that would
have made Nero envious
.
She later divorced Graham
, who is believed to
have moved to Bolivia
.
She must
have looked temptingly pretty to the dean as he put the crown on her head
.
She would
have been taking more than a fair risk
of being seen and recognized during her travels
.
She was closing and within one more bound would
have been able to reach the rear end
of the bay
, but
-- and here Jones and Loveless and Ulyate were holding breath for all they were worth
-- she never quite caught up
that last bound
.
She might
have been talking to some
of her friends about her husband if they've been having any trouble ''
.
She refused to
have a doctor
, insisting there was nothing a doctor
could do for her
.
She might
, conceivably
, have brought one in in a large-enough suitcase
.
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