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1  She turned and looked at him a moment.
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2  After a moment Mattie seemed to be affected by the same sense of constraint.
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3  She did not answer, and after a moment's hesitation he went up and opened her door.
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4  But for the moment his sense of relief was so great as to preclude all other feelings.
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5  The two leaned forward at the same moment and their hands met on the handle of the jug.
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6  The next moment they sank to her flushed cheeks and she began to mount the stairs ahead of Zeena.
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7  Mattie's hand was underneath, and Ethan kept his clasped on it a moment longer than was necessary.
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8  He saw Eady, after a moment, jump from the cutter and go toward the girl with the reins over one arm.
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9  Ethan, a moment earlier, had felt himself on the brink of eloquence; but the mention of Zeena had paralysed him.
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10  He told Jotham to go out and harness up the greys, and for a moment he and Mattie had the kitchen to themselves.
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11  Ethan's heart was jerking to and fro between two extremities of feeling, but for the moment compassion prevailed.
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12  He stood there a moment, breathing quickly, and looking up and down the street, in which not another figure moved.
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13  The name threw a chill between them, and they stood a moment looking sideways at each other before Mattie said with a shy laugh.
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14  At the moment, however, his one desire was to avoid the long drive with her behind the ancient sorrel who never went out of a walk.
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15  A moment later he heard the jingle of departing sleigh bells and discerned a figure advancing alone toward the empty expanse of snow before the church.
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16  In another moment she would step forth into the night, and his eyes, accustomed to the obscurity, would discern her as clearly as though she stood in daylight.
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17  Ethan, consumed with the longing for a last moment alone with Mattie, hung about impatiently while Denis made an ineffectual search in the obscurer corners of the store.
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