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1 She went out of the kitchen and Mattie, rising, began to clear the dishes from the table.

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2 He saw the rise of the colour in Mattie's averted cheek, and the quick lifting of Zeena's head.

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3 Half-way down there was a sudden drop, then a rise, and after that another long delirious descent.

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4 Ethan, rising on his elbow, watched the landscape whiten and shape itself under the sculpture of the moon.

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5 It was the consecrated formula, and he expected it to be followed, as usual, by her rising and going down to supper.

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6 Across its frozen surface, from the farther bank, a single hill rising against the western sun threw the long conical shadow which gave the lake its name.

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7 Nevertheless he sat still a moment, straining his eyes down the long hill, for it was the most confusing hour of the evening, the hour when the last clearness from the upper sky is merged with the rising night in a blur that disguises landmarks and falsifies distances.

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