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1  Lena was not at all disconcerted.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: IV
2  No, 'm, I won't,' said Lena blandly.
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3  Frances asked Lena to come in and join them.
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4  Lena Lingard laughed, as if this pleased her.
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5  Lena looked up with her curiously innocent smile.
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6  She'll see lots of strangers, Lena added wistfully.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: IV
7  'I don't want to marry Nick, or any other man,' Lena murmured.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: IV
8  I ran home to tell grandmother that Lena Lingard had come to town.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: IV
9  'I thought you were going to be married, Lena,' she said teasingly.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: IV
10  'So you have come to town,' said Mrs. Harling, her eyes still fixed on Lena.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: IV
11  Lena replied that she didn't believe she would ever get lonesome in Black Hawk.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: IV
12  When Lena was gone, Frances asked Antonia why she hadn't been a little more cordial to her.
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13  Before I knew Lena, I thought of her as something wild, that always lived on the prairie, because I had never seen her under a roof.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: IV
14  Lena's candid eyes, that always looked a little sleepy under their long lashes, kept straying about the cheerful rooms with naive admiration.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: IV
15  But Lena asked Jake and me to get off our horses and stay awhile, and behaved exactly as if she were in a house and were accustomed to having visitors.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: IV
16  When Ole was cultivating his corn that summer, he used to get discouraged in the field, tie up his team, and wander off to wherever Lena Lingard was herding.
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17  Lena was always knitting stockings for little brothers and sisters, and even the Norwegian women, who disapproved of her, admitted that she was a good daughter to her mother.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: IV
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