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1  She pronounced the word married as if her voice caressed it.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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2  His wife had divorced him, and he had married the girl and prospered.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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3  "Well, when she gets married, I mean," his wife's drawl came from behind him.
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4  Business is pretty slack, to begin with, and then I'm fixing up a little house for Ned and Ruth when they're married.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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5  I used to go a good deal after the accident, when I was first married; but after awhile I got to think it made 'em feel worse to see us.'
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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6  They had never before avowed their inclination so openly, and Ethan, for a moment, had the illusion that he was a free man, wooing the girl he meant to marry.
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7  "I wouldn't ever have it said that I stood in the way of a poor girl like Mattie marrying a smart fellow like Denis Eady," Zeena answered in a tone of plaintive self-effacement.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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8  When they married it was agreed that, as soon as he could straighten out the difficulties resulting from Mrs. Frome's long illness, they would sell the farm and saw-mill and try their luck in a large town.
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9  Zeena's native village was slightly larger and nearer to the railway than Starkfield, and she had let her husband see from the first that life on an isolated farm was not what she had expected when she married.
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10  Ethan had an idea that if she were to marry a man she was fond of the dormant instinct would wake, and her pies and biscuits become the pride of the county; but domesticity in the abstract did not interest her.
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11  From the beginning of the discussion he had instinctively avoided the mention of Mattie's name, fearing he hardly knew what: criticism, complaints, or vague allusions to the imminent probability of her marrying.
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12  Mattie Silver was the daughter of a cousin of Zenobia Frome's, who had inflamed his clan with mingled sentiments of envy and admiration by descending from the hills to Connecticut, where he had married a Stamford girl and succeeded to her father's thriving "drug" business.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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13  For the first time they would be alone together indoors, and they would sit there, one on each side of the stove, like a married couple, he in his stocking feet and smoking his pipe, she laughing and talking in that funny way she had, which was always as new to him as if he had never heard her before.
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