1 About every two years she had a baby.
2 For two consecutive seasons he lived in the sunlight of Mademoiselle Duvigne's presence.
3 There were other children beside, and two nurse-maids followed, looking disagreeable and resigned.
4 The two women went away one morning to the beach together, arm in arm, under the huge white sunshade.
5 The two little Pontelliers were with him, and he carried Madame Ratignolle's little girl in his arms.
6 And he himself brought her the golden-brown bouillon, in a dainty Sevres cup, with a flaky cracker or two on the saucer.
7 Let me see, she went on, throwing back her head and narrowing her fine eyes till they shone like two vivid points of light.
8 The two women had no intention of bathing; they had just strolled down to the beach for a walk and to be alone and near the water.
9 The two seated themselves there in the shade of the porch, side by side, with their backs against the pillows and their feet extended.
10 He could not be in two places at once; making a living for his family on the street, and staying at home to see that no harm befell them.
11 It fluttered the skirts of the two women and kept them for a while engaged in adjusting, readjusting, tucking in, securing hair-pins and hat-pins.
12 They accepted without murmuring what she chose to give them, each holding out two chubby hands scoop-like, in the vain hope that they might be filled; and then away they went.
13 When they reached the cottage, the two seated themselves with some appearance of fatigue upon the upper step of the porch, facing each other, each leaning against a supporting post.
14 Each house consisted of two compartments, and each family at Lebrun's possessed a compartment for itself, fitted out with all the essential paraphernalia of the bath and whatever other conveniences the owners might desire.
15 Unlocking the door of her bath-room she went inside, and soon emerged, bringing a rug, which she spread upon the floor of the gallery, and two huge hair pillows covered with crash, which she placed against the front of the building.
16 Edna Pontellier could not have told why, wishing to go to the beach with Robert, she should in the first place have declined, and in the second place have followed in obedience to one of the two contradictory impulses which impelled her.
17 There was nothing subtle or hidden about her charms; her beauty was all there, flaming and apparent: the spun-gold hair that comb nor confining pin could restrain; the blue eyes that were like nothing but sapphires; two lips that pouted, that were so red one could only think of cherries or some other delicious crimson fruit in looking at them.
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