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• it was be cause she believed that the people who saw her and whom she passed on foot would believe that she lived in the town too.
• most of what folks tells on other folks ain’t true to begin with. And so I reckon I ain’t no better than nobody else.”
• He seems to have already a foreknowledge of something now irrevocable, not to be recalled, who had believed that out here at the mill alone on Saturday afternoon he would be where the chance to do hurt or harm could not have found him.
• he is waiting for that instant when all light has failed out of the sky and it would be night save for that faint light which daygranaried leaf and grass blade reluctant suspire, making still a little light on earth though night itself has come.
• the entire affair had been a lot of people performing a play and that now and at last they had all played out the parts which had been allotted them and now they could live quietly with one another.