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She and didn't
She didn't move or say anything
.
She had reached
a point at which she
didn't even care how she looked
.
She didn't have the heart
.
She didn't turn away from
the window
.

``
She didn't really say '' --
She glanced away at
the floor
, then swooped gracefully and picked up one of Scotty's slippers
.
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 didn't like to travel
.

``
She didn't mention bringing Myra ''
, Mark said
, maneuvering
the car into
the next lane
.
She didn't mind working hard
, not as if she figured
to do anything wrong
to live easy and soft -- all she wanted was
a chance
, where she wasn't marked as what she was
.
She didn't tell anyone
, even
her mother
, what was wrong
.

The old gal stared at me with
her hard eyes
, said
, ``
She didn't call
.
She said she
didn't know
a thing -- Tim had left
the house at six in
the morning
, as usual
.
She had held
to the letter of
her contract and
didn't come onto
the stage until well after 4 p.m.
, the appointed hour
, although
the Music at Newport people had tried
to get
the program underway at 3
.
She didn't want
to be
the only one with
a stove in
her room
, especially as
her life span was nearly run out anyway
, and she insisted
that Hope
have the heater
.
She looked well-fed and prosperous
, but he
didn't get
the impression he was being propositioned
the way he'd been hoping
.

Just
before Myra left --
She was saying good-by
to Cathy
, and she
didn't realize I was near ''
.
She made better pictures than any book he'd read
, but he
didn't say so
.
She didn't have a bad shape when you caught
her at
the pool at Longue Vue
, but her bathing suits were far from smart
.
She didn't look over thirteen
.
She didn't even give me
a chance
to refuse
.
She was trying
to make
a hole in my armor
, and I
didn't want it
.
She didn't sound
like a pale girl
.
She didn't say you were puny
.
She and like
She stood up
, pulled
the coat from
her shoulders and started
to slide it off
, then let out
a high-pitched scream and I let out
a low-pitched
, wobbling sound
like a muffler blowing out
.
She looked more
like twenty-five or six
.
She was
like charcoal
, he thought -- dark
, opaque
, explosive
.
She had jumped away from his shy touch
like a cat confronted by
a sidewinder
.
She wrote gay plays about
the girls for family entertainments
, like `` Oh
, What Fun!!
She would hover over him and
, looking
like her brother
, anxiously watch
the progress of Scotty's fork or spoon
.
She soared over
the new pastor
like an avenging angel lest he stray from
the path and not know all
the truth and gossip of which she was chief repository
.
She held Jonathan's letter
, his words burning
like a brand
, and knew suddenly
that the bonds between them were severed
.
She grasped
the chair arms and brought
her thin body upright
, like a bird alert for flight
.
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 stood up
, smoothing
her hair down
, straightening
her clothes
, feeling
a thankfulness for
the enveloping darkness outside
, and
, above everything else
, for
the absence of
the need
to answer
, to respond
, to be aware even of Stowey coming in or going out
, and yet
, now
that she was beginning
to cook
, she glimpsed
a future without him
, a future alone
like this
, and
the pain made
her head writhe
, and in
a moment she found it hard
to wait for Lucretia
to come with
her guests
.
She is more
like her full brother
, Taraday Hanover
, but larger
.
She hesitated
, she hopped
, she rolled and rocked
, skipped and jumped
, but in some two weeks she started
to pace
, From
that time
to this she has shown steady improvement and now looks
like one of
the classiest things on
the grounds
.
She also banks into
a turn
like a fine runabout -- not digging in on
the outside
to throw passengers all over
the boat
like many
a small cabin cruiser
.
She also taught them
to sing `` I wish I
could shimmy
like my sister Kate ''
.
She was
a large woman with
a frizzled gray poodle cut and
a pencil clamped
like a bit between
her teeth while she hunted and pecked on an old typewriter
.
She said
, `` Well
, those are
the really interesting things
, but if you don't
like any of those I can turn over some of my extra typing jobs
to you
, if you think you can type well enough ''
.
She sounded so exactly
like Doaty
that Henrietta obeyed
her under
the clear impression
that she
could either comply or stay home
.
She felt
like a fool
, too
.
She looked out at
the corn field
, the great green deep acres of it rolled out
like the sea in
the field beyond
the whitewashed fence bordering
the grounds
.
She might
like to take him
to St. Peter's
.
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