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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 stood
She stood quite still
, trying
to focus upon a direction
in which
to turn
, a path
to follow
, a clue
to guide
her.
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 came to the ballroom and
stood on
the two carpeted steps
that led
down to it
.
She stood there
, a large old woman
, smiling
at the things she would say
to him
in the morning
, this big foolish baby
of a son
.
She stood clutching
her shawl around
her shoulders until he
had swung
the car onto
the road
.
She had begun
to turn back toward
the house
, but his look caught
her and she
stood still
, waiting there for what his expression indicated would be a serious word
of farewell
.
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 stood still over
the leg
of lamb
, rubbing herbs into it
, quite suddenly conscious
of a nausea
in her stomach and a feeling
of wrath
, a sensation
of violence
that started
her shivering
.
She measured
the distance from where they
stood to the men and
the gun
, measured
the distance from
the men
to the back room
.
She stood for a moment
, rain dripping from
the trees over
her head
, thinking
of Maude
.
She stood frowning and chewing
her lip
.
She smoothed
the skirt
, sat
down, then
stood up and went back
to the windows
.
She stood there
, watching Holden come
in, and she put
the piece
of toast
in her mouth and bit off one corner with a huge chomp
of her white teeth
.
She stood sipping and chewing and watching
.
She stood indecisively for a moment
, then walked
down the hall ; ;
She stood, once more listening
.
She stood gazing
at him
.
She bettered this mark
in 1990 with a speed of-a record which
stood until 1993
.
She, like
her sister
, fled
to Jordan and has
stood up for
her father's rights
.
She had a busy official role from 1932
to 1939 and
, following
her husband's death
, stood for Parliament herself
, becoming Australia's first female Member
of the House
of Representatives
, and later first woman
in Cabinet
, joining
the Menzies Cabinet
in 1951
.
She later explained
her belief
that her hair – which "
had never been combed and ...
stood out like a bushel basket " – might have saved
her life
.

" The Earl
stood by his wife
, asking his colleagues
to intercede for
her ; there was no hope: "
She Queen doth take every occasion by my marriage
to withdraw any good from me ", Leicester wrote still after seven years
of marriage
.
She found
that T
. horridus and several other species belonged together
, and T
. prorsus and T
. brevicornus
stood alone
, and since there were many more specimens
in the first group
, she suggested
that this meant
the two groups were two species
.
She stood as godmother for Matilda
of Scotland
, who would become Queen
of England after marrying Matilda's son Henry I
.
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