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1  Of late, however, there had been no room in his thoughts for such vague apprehensions.

Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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2  Of late there had been other signs of her disfavour, as intangible but more disquieting.

Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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3  It turned on the state of the roads and on the possible lateness of the Bettsbridge train.

Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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4  Of late, however, since he had reasons for observing her more closely, her silence had begun to trouble him.

Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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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.

Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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6  It was Zeena's habit, when they came back late from the village, to leave the key of the kitchen door under the mat.

Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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7  His wife had never shown any jealousy of Mattie, but of late she had grumbled increasingly over the house-work and found oblique ways of attracting attention to the girl's inefficiency.

Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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8  The pitch of the Corbury road, below lawyer Varnum's spruces, was the favourite coasting-ground of Starkfield, and on clear evenings the church corner rang till late with the shouts of the coasters; but to-night not a sled darkened the whiteness of the long declivity.

Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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