1 Roughly painted ripples represented water.
2 Only the roots beneath water were of use to her.
3 Three hours till seven, he noted; then water the plants.
4 Eyes fed on her as fish rise to a crumb of bread on the water.
5 The county council had promised to bring water to the village, but they hadn't.
6 There," Isa mused, "would the dead leaf fall, when the leaves fall, on the water.
7 Most consciously she felt--she had drunk sweet wine at luncheon--a desire for water.
8 The room smelt warm and sweet; of clothes drying; of milk; of biscuits and warm water.
9 "A beaker of cold water, a beaker of cold water," she repeated, and saw water surrounded by walls of shining glass.
10 So one thing led to another; and the conglomeration of things pressed you flat; held you fast, like a fish in water.
11 Under the thick plate of green water, glazed in their self-centred world, fish swam--gold, splashed with white, streaked with black or silver.
12 You can't expect it brought to your door in a pail of water," said Mrs. Swithin, "as I remember when we were children, living in a house by the sea.
13 They were going; above all things, she desired cold water, a beaker of cold water; but desire petered out, suppressed by the leaden duty she owed to others.
14 Automatically he consulted his watch; noted time to water at seven; and observed the little game of the woman following the man to the table in the West as in the East.
15 Silently they manoeuvred in their water world, poised in the blue patch made by the sky, or shot silently to the edge where the grass, trembling, made a fringe of nodding shadow.
16 But no water; and the hills, like grey stuff pleated; and in the sand a hoop of ribs; a bullock maggot-eaten in the sun; and in the shadow of the rock, savages; and in his hand a gun.
17 And he wished to kneel before her, to kiss her hand, and to say: "At school they held me under a bucket of dirty water, Mrs. Swithin; when I looked up, the world was dirty, Mrs. Swithin; so I married; but my child's not my child, Mrs. Swithin."
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