1 He himself had taken a plunge at daylight.
2 The Sunday papers had not yet reached Grand Isle.
3 He had been seated before the door of the main house.
4 Mr. Pontellier had forgotten the bonbons and peanuts for the boys.
5 Mr. Pontellier had the privilege of quitting their society when they ceased to be entertaining.
6 Then he got up, saying he had half a mind to go over to Klein's hotel and play a game of billiards.
7 In former times, before Robert could remember, "the house" had been a summer luxury of the Lebruns.
8 She read a letter from her sister, who was away in the East, and who had engaged herself to be married.
9 Looking at them reminded her of her rings, which she had given to her husband before leaving for the beach.
10 A good many persons of the pension had gone over to the Cheniere Caminada in Beaudelet's lugger to hear mass.
11 "I see Leonce isn't coming back," she said, with a glance in the direction whence her husband had disappeared.
12 He had a cigar in his pocket which Mr. Pontellier had presented him with, and he was saving it for his after-dinner smoke.
13 He talked to her while he undressed, telling her anecdotes and bits of news and gossip that he had gathered during the day.
14 The parrot and the mockingbird were the property of Madame Lebrun, and they had the right to make all the noise they wished.
15 She had a way of turning them swiftly upon an object and holding them there as if lost in some inward maze of contemplation or thought.
16 Robert was interested, and wanted to know what manner of girls the sisters were, what the father was like, and how long the mother had been dead.
17 He was already acquainted with the market reports, and he glanced restlessly over the editorials and bits of news which he had not had time to read before quitting New Orleans the day before.
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