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1  She did not even ask what he had done.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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2  Fact is, I was going to ask you to give me a little extra time on that payment.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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3  Besides, he hated lying; if he wanted the money he wanted it, and it was nobody's business to ask why.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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4  He foresaw so clearly the consequences of this imprudence that with considerable reluctance he decided to ask Andrew Hale for a small advance on his load.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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5  Ethan sat speechless, not pretending to eat, but Mattie nibbled valiantly at her food and asked Zeena one or two questions about her visit to Bettsbridge.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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6  After the funeral, when he saw her preparing to go away, he was seized with an unreasoning dread of being left alone on the farm; and before he knew what he was doing he had asked her to stay there with him.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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7  The pains are clear away down to my ankles now, or I'd 'a' walked in to Starkfield on my own feet, sooner'n put you out, and asked Michael Eady to let me ride over on his wagon to the Flats, when he sends to meet the train that brings his groceries.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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