She looked into the distance, and the old terror flamed up for an instant, then sank again. Edna heard her father's voice and her sister Margaret's. She heard the barking of an old dog that was chained to the sycamore tree. The spurs of the cavalry officer clanged as he walked across the porch. There was the hum of bees, and the musky odor of pinks filled the air.
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Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.
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I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery.
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There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.
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She wanted something to happen - something, anything: she did not know what.
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She wanted something to happen - something, anything she did not know what.
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