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She and was
She was amazingly light
, and so relaxed in his arms that he wasn't even sure she
was conscious
.
She was carrying
a quirt
, and she started
to raise it
, then let it fall again
and dangle from
her wrist
.
She glanced around
the clearing
, taking in
the wagon
and the load of supplies
and trappings scattered over
the ground
, the two kids
, the whiteface bull that
was chewing its cud
just within
the far reaches of
the firelight
.
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 was quick
.
She brought up
her free hand
to hit him
, but this time he
was quicker
.
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 sure she would reach
the pool by climbing
, and she clung
to that belief despite
the increasing number of obstacles
.
She was bewildered
.
She was standing in
a thick grove
.
She already knew this unwholesome
, chilling atmosphere that
was somehow grotesquely alive
.
She was glad
, completely
and unselfishly glad
, to see that things were working out
the right way for both Sally
and Dan
.
She was still hugging
the stained coat around
her, so I said
, `` Relax
, let me take your things
.
She was wearing nothing beneath
the coat
.
She was standing with
her back
to the glass door
.
She was just not able
to break
the spell
.
She was telling herself that this might
just be
her reward
at the end of
a long meaningful search for truth
.

Meredith
was irritated when
the Grafin knocked
at his door
and told him
, ``
She is
a great beauty!!
She confessed she
was unhappy
, he asked
was it
her husband??
She began
to explain
, `` There
was this poet
, in Italy '' He interrupted
, `` Please don't judge all poets ''
.
She was like charcoal
, he thought -- dark
, opaque
, explosive
.
She and at
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 sat down
at the table
, shaking
her head
.
She clung
to him
, talking
to him
, and dabbing
at her eyes
.
She crouched aside as bullets beat
at the portal
, chewing into
the planks
.
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 looked
at him
, lips compressed
.
She sat quietly
, staring
at me from
the wide eyes
.
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 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 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 daubed
at her swimming eyes with
a lacy handkerchief
and said with obvious emotion: `` That poor boy!!
She snapped
at him
.
She looked down
at her hands
, too
.
She grabbed
at Feathertop's sleeve
and shrieked
, `` Help him!!
She passed
the entrance examinations
to the University of Illinois
, but during
the year
at Urbana felt more important events transpired
at the University of Chicago
.
She left
the next day for
her teaching job
at Princeton
, Illinois
.
She was more excited than frightened
at the prospect of having
her first child in
a foreign land
.
She was certain now that it would be no harder
to bear
her child here in such pleasant surroundings than
at home in
the big white
house in Haverhill
.
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 ''
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