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am
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From this reading “Mother, Mother, I am so happy!”
and
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From this reading she repeated, “and you must be happy, too!”
arm-chair
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From this reading whispered the girl, burying her face in the lap of the faded, tired-looking woman who, with back turned to the shrill intrusive light, was sitting in the one arm-chair that their dingy sitting-room contained.
back
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From this reading whispered the girl, burying her face in the lap of the faded, tired-looking woman who, with back turned to the shrill intrusive light, was sitting in the one arm-chair that their dingy sitting-room contained.
be
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From this reading she repeated, “and you must be happy, too!”
bismuth-whitened
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From this reading Mrs. Vane winced and put her thin, bismuth-whitened hands on her daughter’s head.
burying
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From this reading whispered the girl, burying her face in the lap of the faded, tired-looking woman who, with back turned to the shrill intrusive light, was sitting in the one arm-chair that their dingy sitting-room contained.
contained
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From this reading whispered the girl, burying her face in the lap of the faded, tired-looking woman who, with back turned to the shrill intrusive light, was sitting in the one arm-chair that their dingy sitting-room contained.
daughter's
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From this reading Mrs. Vane winced and put her thin, bismuth-whitened hands on her daughter’s head.
dingy
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From this reading whispered the girl, burying her face in the lap of the faded, tired-looking woman who, with back turned to the shrill intrusive light, was sitting in the one arm-chair that their dingy sitting-room contained.
face
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From this reading whispered the girl, burying her face in the lap of the faded, tired-looking woman who, with back turned to the shrill intrusive light, was sitting in the one arm-chair that their dingy sitting-room contained.
faded
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From this reading whispered the girl, burying her face in the lap of the faded, tired-looking woman who, with back turned to the shrill intrusive light, was sitting in the one arm-chair that their dingy sitting-room contained.
girl
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From this reading whispered the girl, burying her face in the lap of the faded, tired-looking woman who, with back turned to the shrill intrusive light, was sitting in the one arm-chair that their dingy sitting-room contained.
hands
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From this reading Mrs. Vane winced and put her thin, bismuth-whitened hands on her daughter’s head.
happy
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From this reading “Mother, Mother, I am so happy!”
head
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From this reading Mrs. Vane winced and put her thin, bismuth-whitened hands on her daughter’s head.
her
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From this reading whispered the girl, burying her face in the lap of the faded, tired-looking woman who, with back turned to the shrill intrusive light, was sitting in the one arm-chair that their dingy sitting-room contained.
I
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From this reading “Mother, Mother, I am so happy!”
in
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From this reading whispered the girl, burying her face in the lap of the faded, tired-looking woman who, with back turned to the shrill intrusive light, was sitting in the one arm-chair that their dingy sitting-room contained.
intrusive
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From this reading whispered the girl, burying her face in the lap of the faded, tired-looking woman who, with back turned to the shrill intrusive light, was sitting in the one arm-chair that their dingy sitting-room contained.
lap
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light
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From this reading whispered the girl, burying her face in the lap of the faded, tired-looking woman who, with back turned to the shrill intrusive light, was sitting in the one arm-chair that their dingy sitting-room contained.
Mother
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From this reading “Mother, Mother, I am so happy!”
Mrs
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From this reading Mrs. Vane winced and put her thin, bismuth-whitened hands on her daughter’s head.
must
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of
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From this reading whispered the girl, burying her face in the lap of the faded, tired-looking woman who, with back turned to the shrill intrusive light, was sitting in the one arm-chair that their dingy sitting-room contained.
on
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From this reading Mrs. Vane winced and put her thin, bismuth-whitened hands on her daughter’s head.
one
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From this reading whispered the girl, burying her face in the lap of the faded, tired-looking woman who, with back turned to the shrill intrusive light, was sitting in the one arm-chair that their dingy sitting-room contained.
put
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From this reading Mrs. Vane winced and put her thin, bismuth-whitened hands on her daughter’s head.
repeated
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she
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From this reading she repeated, “and you must be happy, too!”
shrill
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From this reading whispered the girl, burying her face in the lap of the faded, tired-looking woman who, with back turned to the shrill intrusive light, was sitting in the one arm-chair that their dingy sitting-room contained.
sitting
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From this reading whispered the girl, burying her face in the lap of the faded, tired-looking woman who, with back turned to the shrill intrusive light, was sitting in the one arm-chair that their dingy sitting-room contained.
sitting-room
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From this reading whispered the girl, burying her face in the lap of the faded, tired-looking woman who, with back turned to the shrill intrusive light, was sitting in the one arm-chair that their dingy sitting-room contained.
so
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From this reading “Mother, Mother, I am so happy!”
that
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From this reading whispered the girl, burying her face in the lap of the faded, tired-looking woman who, with back turned to the shrill intrusive light, was sitting in the one arm-chair that their dingy sitting-room contained.
the
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From this reading whispered the girl, burying her face in the lap of the faded, tired-looking woman who, with back turned to the shrill intrusive light, was sitting in the one arm-chair that their dingy sitting-room contained.
their
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From this reading whispered the girl, burying her face in the lap of the faded, tired-looking woman who, with back turned to the shrill intrusive light, was sitting in the one arm-chair that their dingy sitting-room contained.
thinadjectiveUS /θɪn/
Having little thickness or extent.
From this reading Mrs. Vane winced and put her thin, bismuth-whitened hands on her daughter’s head.
tired-looking
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From this reading whispered the girl, burying her face in the lap of the faded, tired-looking woman who, with back turned to the shrill intrusive light, was sitting in the one arm-chair that their dingy sitting-room contained.
to
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From this reading whispered the girl, burying her face in the lap of the faded, tired-looking woman who, with back turned to the shrill intrusive light, was sitting in the one arm-chair that their dingy sitting-room contained.
too
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From this reading she repeated, “and you must be happy, too!”
turned
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From this reading whispered the girl, burying her face in the lap of the faded, tired-looking woman who, with back turned to the shrill intrusive light, was sitting in the one arm-chair that their dingy sitting-room contained.
Vane
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From this reading Mrs. Vane winced and put her thin, bismuth-whitened hands on her daughter’s head.
was
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From this reading whispered the girl, burying her face in the lap of the faded, tired-looking woman who, with back turned to the shrill intrusive light, was sitting in the one arm-chair that their dingy sitting-room contained.
whispered
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From this reading whispered the girl, burying her face in the lap of the faded, tired-looking woman who, with back turned to the shrill intrusive light, was sitting in the one arm-chair that their dingy sitting-room contained.
who
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From this reading whispered the girl, burying her face in the lap of the faded, tired-looking woman who, with back turned to the shrill intrusive light, was sitting in the one arm-chair that their dingy sitting-room contained.
winced
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From this reading Mrs. Vane winced and put her thin, bismuth-whitened hands on her daughter’s head.
with
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From this reading whispered the girl, burying her face in the lap of the faded, tired-looking woman who, with back turned to the shrill intrusive light, was sitting in the one arm-chair that their dingy sitting-room contained.
woman
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From this reading whispered the girl, burying her face in the lap of the faded, tired-looking woman who, with back turned to the shrill intrusive light, was sitting in the one arm-chair that their dingy sitting-room contained.
you
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From this reading she repeated, “and you must be happy, too!”
