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"Where is Mrs Pontellier?"

"Down at the beach with the children"

"I proet to take it dohen

you go; it's there on the bookshelf over the s! for the next five or eightwith the rockaway?"

"The rockaway? Victor?"

"Yes; down there in front He see ready to drive away

somewhere"

"Call hi whistle which ht have been heard

back at the wharf

"He won't look up"

Madame Lebrun flew to theShe called "Victor!" She waved a

handkerchief and called again The young fellow below got into the

vehicle and started the horse off at a gallop

Madame Lebrun went back to the er son and brother--a tete montee, with a temper which

invited violence and a hich no ax could break

"Whenever you say the word I'm ready to thrash any amount of reason into

him that he's able to hold"