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Proofreading Team. Except for the dull eyes and the extreme pallor of
his face, there was nothing else to indicate that he was deep in liquor. A sound sleeper, she was not roused by
the creaky openings and closings of drawers as Lucy
packed a single duffle bag with underwear and soap that
was pilfered from a multipack of Zest in the Beck’s
downstairs bathroom. She stumbled through a thorny copse, her slippers
sliding on patches of sand that gave way to rock. His hand fell lightly to her chest where her heart was
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She padded softly up the old stairs, exhausted and
elated. He must have married when he was quite a
young man. "
"Who is he?" asked Thames impatiently. Her mind wandered back to that fateful day. For a time she could scarcely believe he was gone. ”
“When?”
“At tea. “I saw you go into that
place, and I have been waiting for you ever since. Their eyes met, and his
expressed perplexity and curiosity. The air was sweet with the perfume of
flowers, and the melody of murmuring insects, the blue sky was cloudless, the
heat of the sun was tempered by the heather-scented west wind. Even in her own sorry skin-and-bones state of
wraithlike pallor and gray under eye circles she was
drawing unwanted attention from would-be admirers.
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