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She could not have told why she was crying. Such experiences as the foregoing were not uncommon in her married life. They seemed never before to have ...more

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...when he possessed her, they seemed to swoon together at the very borderland of life’s mystery.

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She had resolved to never take another step backward.

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She was happy to be alive and breathing, when her whole being seemed to be one with the sunlight, the color, the odors, the luxuriant warmth of some p...more

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Exhaustion was pressing upon and overpowering her. "Good-by--because I love you." He did not know; he did not understand. He would never understand. P...more

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Mrs.Pontellier was not a woman given to confidences, a chararacteristic hitherto contrary to her nature. Even as a child she had lived her own small l...more

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She liked then to wander alone into strange and unfamiliar places. She discovered many a sunny, sleepy corner, fashioned to dream in.

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The morning was full of sunlight and hope.

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She wanted to destroy something. The crash and clatter were what she wanted to hear.