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1  Without answering he moved away toward the kitchen.
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2  She did not move, and he continued: "Supper's about ready."
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3  She moved forward a step or two and then paused again above the dip of the Corbury road.
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4  Ethan was standing near the window, mechanically filling his pipe while he watched Mattie move to and fro.
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5  He stood there a moment, breathing quickly, and looking up and down the street, in which not another figure moved.
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6  In the summertime, on pleasant days, they move Mattie into the parlour, or out in the door-yard, and that makes it easier.
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7  He crept back heavily to the sofa, stretching himself out with limbs so leaden that he felt as if they would never move again.
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8  She stood aside, smiling silently, while he entered, and then moved away from him with something soft and flowing in her gait.
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9  He slipped an arm through hers, as Eady had done, and fancied it was faintly pressed against her side, but neither of them moved.
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10  The tall woman, who had moved away from us toward the dresser, took no notice; but the other, from her cushioned niche, answered complainingly, in a high thin voice.
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11  As he lay there he could hear Mattie moving about in her room, and her candle, sending its small ray across the landing, drew a scarcely perceptible line of light under his door.
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12  He dragged himself to his knees, the monstrous load on him moving with him as he moved, and his hand went over and over her face, and he felt that the twittering came from her lips.
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13  Zeena, after feeding the cat, had returned to her rocking-chair by the stove, and Jotham Powell, who always lingered last, reluctantly pushed back his chair and moved toward the door.
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14  By this time they had passed beyond Frome's earshot and he could only follow the shadowy pantomime of their silhouettes as they continued to move along the crest of the slope above him.
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15  The sun slanted through the south window on the girl's moving figure, on the cat dozing in a chair, and on the geraniums brought in from the door-way, where Ethan had planted them in the summer to "make a garden" for Mattie.
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16  As the dancers poured out of the hall Frome, drawing back behind the projecting storm-door, watched the segregation of the grotesquely muffled groups, in which a moving lantern ray now and then lit up a face flushed with food and dancing.
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17  He even noticed two or three gestures which, in his fatuity, he had thought she kept for him: a way of throwing her head back when she was amused, as if to taste her laugh before she let it out, and a trick of sinking her lids slowly when anything charmed or moved her.
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