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They did not want to turn back, yet whither were they to go,

towards the le

"We will put up some sheaves," said Anna So they could

remain there in the broad, open place

They went across the stubble to where the long rows of

upreared shocks ended Curiously populous that part of the field

looked, where the shocks rode erect; the rest was open and

prostrate

The air was all hoary silver She looked around her Trees

stood vaguely at their distance, as if waiting like heralds, for

the signal to approach In this space of vague crystal her heart

see She was afraid lest the sound should

be heard

"You take this row," she said to the youth, and passing on,

she stooped in the next row of lying sheaves, grasping her hands

in the tresses of the oats, lifting the heavy corn in either

hand, carrying it, as it hung heavily against her, to the

cleared space, where she set the two sheaves sharply down,

bringing theether with a faint, keen clash Her two bulks

stood leaning together He was co his two sheaves She waited near-by

He set his sheaves with a keen, faint clash, next to her

sheaves They rode unsteadily He tangled the tresses of corn