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The lovers were just entering the grounds of the pension They were

leaning toward each other as the wateroaks bent from the sea There was

not a particle of earth beneath their feet Their heads ht have been

turned upside-down, so absolutely did they tread upon blue ether The

lady in black, creeping behind them, looked a trifle paler and n of Mrs Pontellier and the children

Robert scanned the distance for any such apparition They would

doubtless re man ascended to

his mother's room It was situated at the top of the house,Two broad dormer s looked

out toward the Gulf, and as far across it as a ht, cool, and practical

Mada-irl sat on the floor, and with her hands worked the treadle of the

machine The Creole woman does not take any chances whichher health

Robert went over and seated himself on the broad sill of one of the

doretically

to read it, judging by the precision and frequency hich he turned

the leaves The sewing- clatter in the rooone ed bits of desultory conversation