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1  A black woman, wiping her hands upon her apron, was close at his heels.
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2  Her hands were small, and she kept them folded over the handle of her basket.
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3  She clasped her hands easily above her head, and it was thus she fell asleep.
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4  She placed it in Edna's hands, and without further comment arose and went to the piano.
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5  A little black girl sat on the floor, and with her hands worked the treadle of the machine.
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6  The swift breeze seemed to Edna to bury the sting of it into the pores of her face and hands.
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7  She thrust a bare, white arm from the curtain which shielded her open door, and received the cup from his hands.
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8  She carried in her hands a thin handkerchief, which she tore into ribbons, rolled into a ball, and flung from her.
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9  She held up her hands, strong, shapely hands, and surveyed them critically, drawing up her fawn sleeves above the wrists.
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10  The youngest boy, Etienne, had been very naughty, Madame Ratignolle said, as she delivered him into the hands of his mother.
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11  He had taken her parasol from her hands while he spoke to her, and he now lifted it and twirled it above him as he lay on his back.
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12  After surveying the sketch critically she drew a broad smudge of paint across its surface, and crumpled the paper between her hands.
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13  "I felt giddy and almost overcome," Edna said, lifting her hands instinctively to her head and pushing her straw hat up from her forehead.
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14  She was blindly following whatever impulse moved her, as if she had placed herself in alien hands for direction, and freed her soul of responsibility.
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15  They accepted without murmuring what she chose to give them, each holding out two chubby hands scoop-like, in the vain hope that they might be filled; and then away they went.
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16  The directory which fell into her hands was a year or more old, however, and upon reaching the number indicated, Edna discovered that the house was occupied by a respectable family of mulattoes who had chambres garnies to let.
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17  Never were hands more exquisite than hers, and it was a joy to look at them when she threaded her needle or adjusted her gold thimble to her taper middle finger as she sewed away on the little night-drawers or fashioned a bodice or a bib.
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