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1 "I don't know what you mean," he said.

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2 "Well, when she gets married, I mean," his wife's drawl came from behind him.

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3 But Mrs. Hale had said, "You've had an awful mean time, Ethan Frome," and he felt less alone with his misery.

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4 Hitherto Ethan Frome had been content to think him a mean fellow; but now he positively invited a horse-whipping.

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5 As he strode along through the snow the sense of such meanings glowed in his brain and mingled with the bodily flush produced by his sharp tramp.

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6 He had now no doubt that Zeena had spoken the truth in saying, the night before, that she had sat up because she felt "too mean" to sleep: her abrupt resolve to seek medical advice showed that, as usual, she was wholly absorbed in her health.

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7 His father's death, and the misfortunes following it, had put a premature end to Ethan's studies; but though they had not gone far enough to be of much practical use they had fed his fancy and made him aware of huge cloudy meanings behind the daily face of things.

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