So the storm passed and every one was happy.

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She wanted something to happen - something, anything she did not know what.

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She wanted something to happen - something, anything: she did not know what.

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When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease - of joy that kills.

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A person can't have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect it.

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There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.

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It is greater than the stars - that moving procession of human energy; greater than the palpitating earth and the things growing thereon.

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In the procession I should feel the crushing feet, the clashing discords, the ruthless hands and stifling breath. I could not hear the rhythm of the march.

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It was still quite light out of doors, but inside with the curtains drawn and the smouldering fire sending out a dim, uncertain glow, the room was full of deep shadows.

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She missed him the days when some pretext served to take him away from her, just as one misses the sun on a cloudy day without having thought much about the sun when it was shining.

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