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1 Lily put down the tea-caddy with an abrupt gesture.
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2 Trenor paused abruptly, and his eyes fixed themselves on hers with a look which made her change colour.
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3 As she reached Fiftieth Street the clouds broke abruptly, and a rush of cold rain slanted into her face.
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4 She had reached a point where abrupt retrenchment was necessary, and the only cheap life was a dull life.
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5 She paused with a slight falter of embarrassment, and Trenor, turning abruptly, fixed on her a look of growing intelligence.
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6 Mrs. Peniston, on whom she had looked in a day or two after the dinner, laid down her crochet-work and turned abruptly from her oblique survey of Fifth Avenue.
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7 She received this abrupt declaration in a way even stranger than the manner of its making: she dropped her face on her hands and he saw that for a moment she wept.
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8 Again she was disconcerted by the abrupt change in his tone, and as in one flash she saw the peril of the moment, and the need of keeping her sense of it out of her eyes.
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9 She dropped the MENU abruptly, with a quick heightening of colour, and Gerty, following her glance, was aware of the advance, from an inner room, of a party headed by Mrs. Trenor and Carry Fisher.
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10 Mrs. Peniston rose abruptly, and, advancing to the ormolu clock surmounted by a helmeted Minerva, which throned on the chimney-piece between two malachite vases, passed her lace handkerchief between the helmet and its visor.
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