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1  He went to the foot of the stairs and listened.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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2  They spoke in smothered whispers, as though the night were listening.
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3  He listened for Zeena's step and, not hearing it, called her name up the stairs.
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4  and she'll sleep in my bed, where I used to lay nights and listen to hear you come up the stairs.
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5  "It might have fallen off into the snow," Mattie continued, after a pause during which they had stood intently listening.
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6  The cutter was going in the direction of the Frome farm, and Ethan's heart contracted as he listened to the dwindling bells.
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7  Again he listened, fancying he heard a distant sound in the house; then he felt in his pocket for a match, and kneeling down, passed its light slowly over the rough edges of snow about the doorstep.
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