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1  He went to the foot of the stairs and listened.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In IX
2  "Good night, Matt," he said as she put her foot on the first step of the stairs.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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3  He listened for Zeena's step and, not hearing it, called her name up the stairs.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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4  The next moment they sank to her flushed cheeks and she began to mount the stairs ahead of Zeena.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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5  and she'll sleep in my bed, where I used to lay nights and listen to hear you come up the stairs.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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6  Her husband, without stopping to hear the end of the phrase, had left the kitchen and sprung up the stairs.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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7  "Now let go," he repeated; then he shouldered the trunk and carried it down the stairs and across the passage to the kitchen.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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8  She walked out of the kitchen ahead of them and pausing in the hall raised the lamp at arm's-length, as if to light them up the stairs.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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9  Silence answered; but in a minute or two he caught a sound on the stairs and saw a line of light about the door-frame, as he had seen it the night before.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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