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Edna Pontellier could not have told ishing to go to the beach with

Robert, she should in the first place have declined, and in the second

place have followed in obedience to one of the two contradictory

i to dawn di the way, forbids it

At that early period it served but to bewilder her It uish which had overcome her

the ht when she had abandoned herself to tears

In short, Mrs Pontellier was beginning to realize her position in

the universe as a hunize her relations as an

individual to the world within and about her This ht of wisdoht--perhaps more wisdom than the Holy Ghost is usually pleased

to vouchsafe to any wos, of a world especially, is necessarily

vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing Ho of us ever

e! How many souls perish in its tu, whispering, cla the soul to wander for a spell in abysses of

solitude; to lose itself in mazes of inward contemplation

The voice of the sea speaks to the soul The touch of the sea is

sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace