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1 She lifted her head and her eyes fell on the clock.
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2 In its light everything else dwindled and fell away from her.
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3 In the long moment before the curtain fell, he had time to feel the whole tragedy of her life.
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4 Her eyes fell on an illuminated clock at a street corner, and she saw that the hands marked the half hour after eleven.
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5 Last of all, she drew forth from the bottom of her trunk a heap of white drapery which fell shapelessly across her arm.
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6 But the power of expression failed her suddenly; she felt a tremor in her throat, and two tears gathered and fell slowly from her eyes.
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7 The suddenness added to the horror; and there were still times when Lily relived with painful vividness every detail of the day on which the blow fell.
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8 She began to rip the spangles from the frame, listening absently to the buzz of talk which rose and fell with the coming and going of Miss Haines's active figure.
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9 As complete darkness fell on the square the lingering occupants of the benches rose and dispersed; but now and then a stray figure, hurrying homeward, struck across the path where Lily sat, looming black for a moment in the white circle of electric light.
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10 These thoughts so engaged her that she fell into a gait hardly likely to carry her to church before the sermon, and at length, having passed from the gardens to the wood-path beyond, so far forgot her intention as to sink into a rustic seat at a bend of the walk.
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11 It had been a bad autumn in Wall Street, where prices fell in accordance with that peculiar law which proves railway stocks and bales of cotton to be more sensitive to the allotment of executive power than many estimable citizens trained to all the advantages of self-government.
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