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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 so
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 must
be cautious
so as not
to alert the scheming forest
.
She began it deliberately,
so that none of
her words would
be lost on him
.
She got
so drunk I
had to take
her home
.
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 would sometimes even get a little hard on you,
she took you
so seriously
.
She made General Burnside's horse's belly do
so funny when it
was upside down
.
She ascribed
her delight
with both experiences
to the effect they seemed
to have of temporarily removing from
her the controls which
she felt
so compulsively necessary
to maintain even when it might seem appropriate
to relax these controls
.
She had felt
that her arm wanted
to go up in the first trial, but
had consciously prevented it from
so doing
.
She did not go
so far as
to say, as
was done on other occasions,
that Abstraction as well as Impressionism were a Russian invention
that had been discarded as unwanted by the people of the U.S.S.R.
She seemed
so anxious
to go on the stage
that some of
her friends in the cocktail circuit set up a practical joke
.
She spoke also
with deep thankfulness of the many individuals
and agencies whose interest
and efforts through the years
had made the work
so fruitful in results
.
She wouldn't
be going
to get
that for an hour or
so after Katya
had left, go do the daily shopping
.
She had swished away,
she had been gone for a long time probably when Sarah suddenly realized
that she ought
to stop
her, pour out the coffee,
so no one would drink it
.
She tried
to think of his unpredictable actions in the eleven years
she had known him
and discovered they weren't
so many after all
.
She was generous
with her encores
and the audience
was equally
so with its cheers
and applause
and flowers
.
She was so heavy
that Maggie's arms shook from lifting
her and taking care of
her.
She was so beautiful,
so valiant,
so pitiable
.
She sounded
so exactly like Doaty
that Henrietta obeyed
her under the clear impression
that she could either comply or stay home
.
She pursed
her lips, then clamped them together
so tightly
that I thought
she was angry
with me
.
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