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They had come to the edge of the wood now, with no sign of slowing their rapid jog. The road, where it angled across the meadow, was just ahead, dazzling white in the open sunlight. And there, standing on the road, was the man from the night before, the man in the yellow suit, his black hat on his head. Discovering him, seeing his surprise, and presented at once with choices, Winnie's mind perversely went blank. Instead of crying out for h..
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For the wood was full of light, entirely different from the light she was used to. It was green and amber and alive, quivering in splotches on the padded ground, fanning into sturdy stripes between the tree trunks. There were little flowers she did not recognize, white and palest blue; and endless, tangled vines; and here and there a fallen log, half rotted but soft with patches of sweet green-velvet moss.
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Sitting relaxed with his back against the trunk was a boy, almost a man. And he seemed so glorious to Winnie that she lost her heart at once.
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He bent and put his lips to the spurt, drinking noiselessly, and then he sat up again and drew his shirt sleeve across his mouth. As he did this, he turned his face in her direction--and their eyes met. For a long moment they looked at each other in silence, the boy with his arm still raised to his mouth. Neither of them moved. At last his arm fell to his side. "You may as well come out," he said, with a frown."
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Mae Tuck, and her husband, and Miles and Jesse, too, had all looked exactly the same for eighty-seven years.
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Now, remember Winifred, don't bite your fingernails. Don't interrupt when someone else is speaking, and don't go down to the jailhouse at midnight to change places with Prisoners
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Egy dolog, amikor az ember arrol beszel, hogy szeretne egyedul lenni, nagy hordereju tetteket veghezvinni, de mas tal teszta, amikor a lehetoseg megadatik. A konyvekben, amiket olvasott, a hosok szemmel lathatolag minden aggodalom nelkul vagtak neki a nagyvilagnak, de a valosagban - nos, a vilag egy veszelyes hely. Mindig ezt mondtak neki. Es hogy segitseg nelkul nem boldogulna. Ezt is mindig elmondtak. Soha senki nem reszletezte, hogy mi a..
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Nera gyvenimo be mirties. Taigi mes negalime sakyti, kad gyvename. Mes tiesiog 'esame'...
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He looked solid, like an oar, whereas Jesse--well, she decided, Jesse was like water: thin, and quick.
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She had wanted to cough as soon as it occurred to her that she mustn't, and she passed a long hour trying to swallow away the tickle that perversely constricted her throat.
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And then his throat closed. For it was there. He had wanted it to be there, but now that he saw it, he was overcome with sadness.
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thin
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red and pink and orange,
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