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1  Daisy's face, tipped sideways beneath a three-cornered lavender hat, looked out at me with a bright ecstatic smile.
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2  It was dark here in front: only the bright door sent ten square feet of light volleying out into the soft black morning.
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3  Blinking away the brightness of the street outside my eyes picked him out obscurely in the anteroom, talking to another man.
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4  When he came down the steps at last the tanned skin was drawn unusually tight on his face, and his eyes were bright and tired.
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5  I looked at the house: there were two or three bright windows downstairs and the pink glow from Daisy's room on the second floor.
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6  We walked through a high hallway into a bright rosy-colored space, fragilely bound into the house by French windows at either end.
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7  It was strange to reach the marble steps and find no stir of bright dresses in and out the door, and hear no sound but bird voices in the trees.
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8  He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking it out with every bright feather that drifted his way.
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9  His gorgeous pink rag of a suit made a bright spot of color against the white steps and I thought of the night when I first came to his ancestral home three months before.
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10  Her porch was bright with the bought luxury of star-shine; the wicker of the settee squeaked fashionably as she turned toward him and he kissed her curious and lovely mouth.
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11  The wind had blown off, leaving a loud bright night with wings beating in the trees and a persistent organ sound as the full bellows of the earth blew the frogs full of life.
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12  The lamp-light, bright on his boots and dull on the autumn-leaf yellow of her hair, glinted along the paper as she turned a page with a flutter of slender muscles in her arms.
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13  It was a rich cream color, bright with nickel, swollen here and there in its monstrous length with triumphant hatboxes and supper-boxes and tool-boxes, and terraced with a labyrinth of windshields that mirrored a dozen suns.
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14  The lawn started at the beach and ran toward the front door for a quarter of a mile, jumping over sun-dials and brick walks and burning gardens--finally when it reached the house drifting up the side in bright vines as though from the momentum of its run.
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15  Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth--but there was an excitement in her voice that men who had cared for her found difficult to forget: a singing compulsion, a whispered "Listen," a promise that she had done gay, exciting things just a while since and that there were gay, exciting things hovering in the next hour.
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