1 The water must be delicious; it will not hurt you.
2 Mrs. Pontellier flew for the cologne water and a fan.
3 A few persons were sporting some distance away in the water.
4 Most of them walked into the water as though into a native element.
5 But there was a breeze blowing, a choppy, stiff wind that whipped the water into froth.
6 She did shout for joy, as with a sweeping stroke or two she lifted her body to the surface of the water.
7 It was some utter nonsense; some adventure out there in the water, and they both tried to relate it at once.
8 She threw out her arms as if swimming when she walked, beating the tall grass as one strikes out in the water.
9 The moon was coming up, and its mystic shimmer was casting a million lights across the distant, restless water.
10 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.
11 A certain ungovernable dread hung about her when in the water, unless there was a hand near by that might reach out and reassure her.
12 Edna went at once to the bath-house, and she had put on her dry clothes and was ready to return home before the others had left the water.
13 There were a number of bath-houses along the beach, of rough but solid construction, built with small, protecting galleries facing the water.
14 But to her unaccustomed vision the stretch of water behind her assumed the aspect of a barrier which her unaided strength would never be able to overcome.
15 First of all, the sight of the water stretching so far away, those motionless sails against the blue sky, made a delicious picture that I just wanted to sit and look at.
16 She turned her face seaward to gather in an impression of space and solitude, which the vast expanse of water, meeting and melting with the moonlit sky, conveyed to her excited fancy.
17 If one of the little Pontellier boys took a tumble whilst at play, he was not apt to rush crying to his mother's arms for comfort; he would more likely pick himself up, wipe the water out of his eyes and the sand out of his mouth, and go on playing.
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