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1  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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2  Mattie had no natural turn for housekeeping, and her training had done nothing to remedy the defect.
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3  He followed her and brought the other geraniums, the hyacinth bulbs in a cracked custard bowl and the German ivy trained over an old croquet hoop.
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4  During the winter months there was no stage between Starkfield and Bettsbridge, and the trains which stopped at Corbury Flats were slow and infrequent.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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5  But his cheek touched hers, and it was cold and full of weeping, and he saw the road to the Flats under the night and heard the whistle of the train up the line.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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6  The pains are clear away down to my ankles now, or I'd 'a' walked in to Starkfield on my own feet, sooner'n put you out, and asked Michael Eady to let me ride over on his wagon to the Flats, when he sends to meet the train that brings his groceries.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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7  It got about the next day," she went on, "that Zeena Frome had sent Mattie off in a hurry because she had a hired girl coming, and the folks here could never rightly tell what she and Ethan were doing that night coasting, when they'd ought to have been on their way to the Flats to ketch the train.
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