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things to be left alone

When Etienne had fallen asleep Edna bore him into the back rooht lay the child

comfortably in his bed The quadroon had vanished When they eht

"Do you knoe have been together the whole livelong day, Robert--since

early this

"All but the hundred years when you were sleeping Goodnight"

He pressed her hand and went away in the direction of the beach He did

not join any of the others, but walked alone toward the Gulf

Edna stayed outside, awaiting her husband's return She had no desire

to sleep or to retire; nor did she feel like going over to sit with the

Ratignolles, or to join Madaroup whose animated voices

reached her as they sat in conversation before the house She let her

mind wander back over her stay at Grand Isle; and she tried to discover

wherein this summer had been different from any and every other summer

of her life She could only realize that she herself--her present

self--was in so

with different eyes andthe acquaintance of new conditions

in herself that colored and changed her environment, she did not yet

suspect