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She and had
She had reached
a point at which she didn't even care how she looked
.
She stared at him,
her eyes wide as she thought about what he
had said ; ;
She had helped him change his mind
.
She said, and
her tone
had softened until it was almost friendly
.
She had picked up the quirt and was twirling it
around her wrist and smiling at him
.
She had offered to walk, but Pamela knew she would not feel comfortable about
her child until she
had personally confided
her to the care of the little pink woman who chose to be called `` Auntie ''
.
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 had the feeling
that, under the mouldering leaves, there would be the bodies of dead animals, quietly decaying and giving their soil back to the mountain
.
She had to get away from
here before this demoniac possession swallowed up the liquid of
her eyes and sank into the fibers of
her brain, depriving
her of reason and sight
.
She had to escape
.
She had to move
in some direction -- any direction
that would take
her away from this evil place
.
She wondered what
had taken place
in town, between him and his wife
.
She had spent too many hours looking ahead, hoping and longing to catch even
a glimpse of Dan and finding nothing but emptiness
.
She had arrived this morning and come straight to the English Gardens
.
She had retreated to this world
.
She had touched
her face, truly
a noble and pure face, only with
a lip salve which made
her lips glisten but no redder than usual
.
She had hated the whole idea before they started
.
She had jumped away from his shy touch like
a cat confronted
by a sidewinder
.
She had driven up with
her husband
in a convertible with Eastern license plates, although the two drivers knew nothing at the moment about
that.
She might have
been someone he
had once loved
.
She began to watch
a blonde-haired man, also
in shorts, standing right at the rear of the wrecked car
in the one spot
that most of the crowd
had detoured slightly
.
She was sitting on the edge of the bed again, back
in the same position where the snake
had found
her.
She had the opportunity
that few clever women can resist, of showing
her superiority
in argument over
a man
.
She and been
She has rarely
been photographed with him and, except for Carl's seventy-fifth anniversary celebration
in Chicago
in 1953, she has not attended the dozens of banquets, functions, public appearances, and dinners honoring him -- all of this upon
her insistence
.
She wrote
in her journal, `` I have not heard the least profane language since I have
been on board the vessel
.
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 had been picked up
by the Russians, questioned
in connection with some pamphlets, sentenced to life imprisonment for espionage
.
She had been one of the first to collect
her wits
.
She was forty-nine at this time,
a lanky woman of breeding with an austere, narrow face which
had the distinction of
a steeple or some architecture
that had been designed long ago for
a stubborn sort of prayer
.
She was such
a well-rounded teenager, having
been a twirler, Future Farmers sweetheart, and secretary of Future Homemakers
.
She was going to tell Bobby Joe about how mistaken she
had been, but he brought one of the cousins home for supper, and all they did was talk about antelope
.
She always let it be known
that there was wine
in the pot roast or
that the chicken
had been marinated
in brandy, and
that Koussevitzky's second cousin was an intimate of theirs
.
She looked confused at this, and I felt sure it
had been a wrong response for me to make
.
She clearly agreed
that this
had been the case
.
She did not go so far as to say, as was done on other occasions,
that Abstraction as well as Impressionism were
a Russian invention
that had been discarded as unwanted
by the people of the U.S.S.R.
She had been moving
in cafe society as Lady Diana Harrington,
a name
that made some of the gossip columns
.
She has
been acting as
a prostitute
.
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 would have
been taking more than
a fair risk of being seen and recognized during
her travels
.
She replied, `` I know of one man
that has not
been friendly with him
.
She noted
that no student
had been withdrawn through loss of confidence ; ;
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 knew
that I lived at
a good address on the Gold Coast,
that I
had once
been a medical student and was thinking of returning to the university to finish my medical studies
.
She musta
been walking
in her sleep -- you seen
her yourself
in here ''
.
She could easily understand why the two men
had been startled to find
a strange girl
in the back seat of their car ( she
had figured
that out ), but she couldn't understand their subsequent actions
.
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