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1 She tightened her fierce hold about his neck.

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2 She freed herself from his hold and he heard her sobbing.

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3 She slipped out of his hold without speaking, and he stooped down and felt for the key.

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4 They stood looking at each other as if the eyes of each were straining to absorb and hold fast the other's image.

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5 But I haven't got the time now; I'm late as it is, he returned, holding his old silver turnip-watch to the candle.

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6 He saw a scarcely perceptible tremor cross her face, and without knowing what he did he stooped his head and kissed the bit of stuff in his hold.

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7 Thence, still hugging the shadow, he edged his way cautiously forward to the nearest window, holding back his straight spare body and craning his neck till he got a glimpse of the room.

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8 or whom he could hold entranced before a ledge of granite thrusting up through the fern while he unrolled the huge panorama of the ice age, and the long dim stretches of succeeding time.

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9 But he continued to finger about cautiously with his left hand, thinking he might get hold of the little creature and help it; and all at once he knew that the soft thing he had touched was Mattie's hair and that his hand was on her face.

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