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1  She shone at him across the table.
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2  His head reeled and he had to support himself against the table.
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3  She raised distressed eyes to his, her work dropping on the table between them.
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4  She went out of the kitchen and Mattie, rising, began to clear the dishes from the table.
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5  Her tone was so sweet that he took the pipe from his mouth and drew his chair up to the table.
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6  She sprang to her feet as Ethan entered and carried the covered dish of meat-pie to the table.
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7  They drew their seats up to the table, and the cat, unbidden, jumped between them into Zeena's empty chair.
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8  A bright fire glowed in the stove and the cat lay stretched before it, watching the table with a drowsy eye.
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9  Cautiously he slid his hand palm-downward along the table till his finger-tips touched the end of the stuff.
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10  When he came back Mattie had set the teapot on the table and the cat was rubbing itself persuasively against her ankles.
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11  They finished supper, and while Mattie cleared the table Ethan went to look at the cows and then took a last turn about the house.
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12  He was not sorry to assure himself of Jotham's neutralising presence at the supper table, for Zeena was always "nervous" after a journey.
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13  The table had been as carefully laid, a clear fire glowed in the stove, the cat dozed in its warmth, and Mattie came forward carrying a plate of doughnuts.
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14  It was a slow trudge home through the heavy fields, and when the two men entered the kitchen Mattie was lifting the coffee from the stove and Zeena was already at the table.
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15  She set the lamp on the table, and he saw that it was carefully laid for supper, with fresh doughnuts, stewed blueberries and his favourite pickles in a dish of gay red glass.
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16  The cat, unnoticed, had crept up on muffled paws from Zeena's seat to the table, and was stealthily elongating its body in the direction of the milk-jug, which stood between Ethan and Mattie.
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17  He drew up to the table again and she sewed on in silence, with dropped lashes, while he sat in fascinated contemplation of the way in which her hands went up and down above the strip of stuff, just as he had seen a pair of birds make short perpendicular flights over a nest they were building.
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