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1  So he kept me waiting well over an hour.
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2  she waited till Candish had retired, "the servants."
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3  Waiting for Mr. Streatfield, she paced between the birch trees.
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4  He had finished his fish; he had eaten quickly, not to keep them waiting.
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5  She waited, as one waits for the strain of an organ to die out before leaving church.
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6  She waited, as one waits for the strain of an organ to die out before leaving church.
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7  But somewhere, this cloud, this crust, this doubt, this dust--She waited for a rhyme, it failed her; but somewhere surely one sun would shine and all, without a doubt, would be clear.
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8  In which case it meant--but what it meant to Mrs. Sands, when people missed their trains, and she, whatever she might want to do, must wait, by the oven, keeping meat hot, no one knew.
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