https://padlet.com/mclose1/sdqcu23gni96 Made with joy en-us 2017-11-07 13:53:20 UTC 2025-09-30 12:26:23 UTC hello@padlet.com mclose1 https://padlet.com/mclose1/sdqcu23gni96/wish/204337300 "She arose at length and opened the door to her sister's importunities. There was feverish triumph in her eyes, and she carried herself unwittingly like a goddess of Victory.  She clasped her sister's waist, and together they descended the stairs."
*importunities means  to plea or to beg 
*unwittingly means unintentionally. ]]> 2017-11-07 13:53:20 UTC https://padlet.com/mclose1/sdqcu23gni96/wish/204337300 mclose1 https://padlet.com/mclose1/sdqcu23gni96/wish/204337301 "Her fancy was running riot along those days ahead of her.  Spring days, and summer days, and all sorts of days that would be her own.  She breathed a quick prayer that life might be long.  It was only yesterday she had thought with a shudder that life might be long. "
*fancy means imagination]]> 2017-11-07 13:53:20 UTC https://padlet.com/mclose1/sdqcu23gni96/wish/204337301 mclose1 https://padlet.com/mclose1/sdqcu23gni96/wish/204337302 "And yet she loved him--sometimes. Often she had not. What did it matter.  What could love, the unsolved mystery, count for in the face of this possession of self-assertion which she suddenly recognized as the strongest impulse of her being.  "Free! Body and soul free!" she kept whispering."  
*assertion means confidence or awareness]]> 2017-11-07 13:53:20 UTC https://padlet.com/mclose1/sdqcu23gni96/wish/204337302 mclose1 https://padlet.com/mclose1/sdqcu23gni96/wish/204337303 "When she abandoned herself, a little whispered word escaped her slightly parted lips. She said it over and over under her breath: "free, free, free!" The vacant stare and the look of terror that had followed went from her eyes. They stayed keen and bright. Her pulse beat fast, and the coursing blood warmed and relaxed every inch of her body."
 ehS]]> 2017-11-07 13:53:20 UTC https://padlet.com/mclose1/sdqcu23gni96/wish/204337303 mclose1 https://padlet.com/mclose1/sdqcu23gni96/wish/204337305 "She sat with her head thrown back upon the cushion of the chair, quite motionless, except when a sob came up in her throat and shook her, as a child who has cried itself to sleep continues to sob in its dream." ]]> 2017-11-07 13:53:20 UTC https://padlet.com/mclose1/sdqcu23gni96/wish/204337305