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Madaone to mass Her son Tonie had, but she supposed

he would soon be back, and she invited Robert to be seated and wait for

him But he went and sat outside the door and se front roo

e fireplace

Edna, left alone in the little side rooreater part of them She bathed her face, her neck and arms in

the basin that stood between the s She took off her shoes and

stockings and stretched herself in the very center of the high, white

bed How luxurious it felt to rest thus in a strange, quaint bed,

with its sweet country odor of laurel lingering about the sheets and

lih her loosened hair for a while She looked at her

round arht up and rubbed the closely, as if it were so she saw for the first

time, the fine, firm quality and texture of her flesh She clasped her

hands easily above her head, and it was thus she fell asleep

She slept lightly at first, half awake and drowsily attentive to the

things about her She could hear Mada tread

as she walked back and forth on the sanded floor So for bits of gravel in the