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"Whole clouds above them lifted, chattering into the sky above the wood and then settled, only to lift again"

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Two shadows detached themselves from the gloom as Winnie and Jessie came up.

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"they were careful with her, a little gingerly, as if she were an egg."

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"He dropped like a tree, his face surprised, his eyes wide open."

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"He dropped like a tree, his face surprised, his eyes wide open."

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"The August sun rolled up, hung at mid-heaven for a blinding hour, and at last wheeled westward before the journey was done."

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Outside in the ring of trees around the pounds the birds were celibrating giving the new day a breas bands worth of greeating.

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She reached out and ran her fingers across a lily pad that lay on the water beside the boat. It was warm and very dry, like a blotter, but near its center was a single drop of water, round and perfect.

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" . . . proud as peacocks . . . "

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She went over it again and again, lying wrapped in the quilt, while outside the moon rose, turning the pond to silver. There was a hint of mist, now that the air was cooler, and the frogs talked comfortably.

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And at last these things were clearer in Winnie's ears than the voice of her thoughts.

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There was a hint of mist, now that the air was cooler, and the frogs talked comfortably.

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"across the pond a bullfrog spoke a deep note of warning."

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"the sun was dropping fast now, a soft red sliding egg yolk."

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"The parlor came next, where the furniture, loose and sloping with age, was set about helter-skelter. An ancient green-plush sofa lolled alone in the center, like yet another mossy fallen log, facing a soot-streaked fireplace still deep in last winter's ashes."

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We're plain as salt, us Tucks.

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"It was a good supper, flapjacks, bacon, bread, and applesauce, but they were sitting about in the parlor instead of around a table."

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was set about helter skelter an anchint green plush sofa lolled

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"He straightened and peered down at her, and Winnie, looking back into his face, saw an expression there that made her feel like an unexpected present, wrapped in pretty paper and tied with ribbons,"

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Everything was motionless, dry is a biscuit,on the Brink of Burning

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crickets leapt before them as if each step released a spring and flung them up like pebbles.

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Queen Anne's lace lay dusty on the surface of the meadows like foam on a painted sea

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the August sun rolled up, hung at Mid Haven for a blinding hour

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for they gathered around her like children at their mother's knee, each trying to claim her attention

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For her part, Winnie, now that the running was over, began to comprehend what was happening, an with the comprehension her throat closed and her mouth went dry as paper.

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bear her off like a sack of potatoes

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"The last stains of sunset had melted away, and the twilight died, too, as he stood there, though its remnants clung reluctantly to everything that was pale in color- pebbles, the dusty road, the figure of the man himself- turning them blue and blurry.

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All right. I'm 104 years old, He told her solemnly

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"The sun was only just opening its own eye on the eastern horizon:

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but in the wood the air was cooler and smelled agreeably damp.

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believing was her own true promising friend

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"sighing trees,"..."wisp of music came floating towards them,"

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"She stood up, brushing at her legs where bits of itchy grass clung to her stockings."

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"it'd be nice to have a new name  to start with one that's not all worn down"

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"It was the only living thing in sight except for a stationary cloud of hysterical gnats suspended in the heat above the road."

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"plopped its mudball of a body . . ."

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"The last stains of sunset had melted away, and the twilight died too..."

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"'Oh yes,' said Winnie, 'We've lived here forever'"

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The wood was at the center, the hub of the wheel.

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But at the same time he had a kind of grace, like a well-handled marionette.

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"a great potato of a woman..."

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August hangs at the very top of summer...

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Often at night there is lightning, but it quivers all alone.

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August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning.

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trembling on its axis like a beetle on a pin

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". . . ancient green-plush sofa lolled alone in the centre, like yet another fallen log . . ."

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". . . ancient green-plush sofa lolled alone in the centre, like yet another fallen log . . ."