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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 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 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 didn't
like to travel
.
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 didn't
like her stepmother
, but nothing is known to have occurred shortly before the crime that could have caused such a murderous rage
.
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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