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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 been snared here
by a vile sensuality that writhed around
her throat
in ever-tightening circles
.
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 quarreled
She frequently
quarreled with her biological children
and her stepchildren
.
She then became
her own brother ’ s regent: “ In 412 Pulcheria
quarreled with Antiochus
, who like Anthemius
had served
the dynasty faithfully
for a number
of years
, and induced
her brother to dismiss him from
the duties
of praepositus
.
She quarreled with her brother
, the Prince
of Wales
, about
her choice
.
She quarreled with Father Divine
and his demand
for ' strict submission '
and broke
with him
in 1937
.
She and with
She helped him
with the dishes
, then he brought more water
in from
the spring before it got dark
.
She wiped it off
with the sleeve
of her coat
.
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 regarded them as signs that
she was nearing
the glen
she sought
, and she was glad to at last be doing something positive
in her unenunciated
, undefined struggle
with the mountain
and its darkling inhabitants
.
She was standing
with her back to
the glass door
.
She raised a protesting hand
with a startled air
.
She cackled
with mirth
, showing
the stumps
of betel-stained teeth
.
She would look at Jack
, with that hidden something
in her eyes
, and Jack
would see
the Woman
and become breathless
and a little sick
.
She said
, with the solicitude
of a middle-aged woman
for her only child
.
She munched little ginger cakes called mulatto's belly
and kept
her green
, somewhat hypnotic eyes fixed on a light-colored male who
was prancing wildly
with a 5-foot king snake wrapped around
his bronze neck
.
She said
with intense feeling: `` Come near
, let me feel your arms
.
She daubed at
her swimming eyes
with a lacy handkerchief
and said
with obvious emotion: `` That poor boy!!
She, too
, is concerned
with ``
the becoming
, the process
of realization ''
, but she does
not think
in terms
of subtle variations
of spatial or temporal patterns
.
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 opened
the boxes
with a tear
in her eye
and a sad smile on
her face
.
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 Ellen Aldridge
, a widow
of good repute who
was employed
by Gorton's wife
and lived
with the family
.
She had to clean
the glass on
the display cases
in the butcher shop
, help
her brother scrub
the cutting tables
with wire brushes
, mop
the floors
, put down new sawdust on
the floors
and help check
the outgoing orders
.
She had been picked up
by the Russians
, questioned
in connection
with some pamphlets
, sentenced to life imprisonment
for espionage
.
She gave me
the names
of some people who
would surely help pay
for the flowers
and might even march up to
the monument
with me
.
She had, with her own work-weary hands
, put seeds
in the ground
, watched them sprout
, bud
, blossom
, and get ready to bear
.
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