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She was occupying herself in an attempt to write an article about the variety of houses that they had rented abroad.
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She and was
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 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 glad, completely and unselfishly glad, to see that things were working out the right way for both Sally and Dan.
She was telling herself that this might just be her reward at the end of a long meaningful search for truth.
She began to explain, `` There was this poet, in Italy '' He interrupted, `` Please don't judge all poets ''.
She and occupying
She had to pay no war indemnity, and the occupying armies of the Sixth Coalition withdrew instantly from French soil.
She is given the choice of becoming an assassin, or of actually occupying " row 8, plot 30 ", referring to her fake grave.
She initially worked as a courier, making contact with Jewish resistance groups outside of the ghetto and providing them with updates on resistance clashes, as well as providing educational material that was banned by the occupying German forces.
She is best known for her appearances on the game show Match Game ( normally occupying the lower right-hand seat next to regular panelist Richard Dawson ).
She supported herself by selling magazines and taking odd jobs, also occupying herself by as a hospital visitor and visiting lonely women newly arrived to Alaska, doing what she could to make them feel welcome.
She and herself
She softly let herself into the bed, and took her regular side, away from the door, where she slept better because Keith was between her and the invader.
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 had even steeled herself to keep Juanita upstairs in the nurse's room off the empty nursery, although the girl tried to insist on moving back to the quarters to spare Kate remembrance of the baby's death.
She took a good look at herself in the mirror before she turned and, walking with very small steps, started toward the door.
She walked back to the house and entered, feeling herself returning, sensing some kind of opportunity in the empty building.
She described herself as having the same kind of `` irresponsible '' feeling as she had once experienced under hypnosis.
She then described her experience as one in which she first had difficulty accepting for herself a state of being in which she relinquished control.
She paused at the kitchen door, caught her breath, told herself firmly that the opium was only an attempt to frighten her and went into the kitchen, where Glendora was eyeing the chickens dismally and Maude was cleaning lamp chimneys.
She found herself wishing an old wish, that she had told Doaty she was running away, that she had left something more behind her than the loving, sorry note and her best garnet pin.
She felt mindless, walking, and almost easy until the church spire told her she was near the cemetery, and she caught herself wondering what she would say to Doaty.
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