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1  She wondered why he did not join them.
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2  She could not have told why she was crying.
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3  That was why the morning seemed long to him.
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4  She wondered why Robert had gone away and left her.
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5  But there was no reason why every one should not dance.
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6  There were days when she was very happy without knowing why.
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7  It is nothing," she said aloud; "why did I not discover before that it was nothing.
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8  But she could not realize why or how she should have yielded, feeling as she then did.
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9  "Please let Robert explain why he is going, and why he is going to-night," she called out.
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10  Edna tapped her foot impatiently, and wondered why the children persisted in playing in the sun when they might be under the trees.
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11  There were a dozen men crazy about her at the Cheniere; and since it was the fashion to be in love with married people, why, she could run away any time she liked to New Orleans with Celina's husband.
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12  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.
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