Lie Down in Darkness: A NovelBobbs-Merrill, 1951 - 400 pages |
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Page 23
... Silence surrounded her in damp , hot layers , yet now , breaking this stillness , a single locust somewhere com- menced a loud chatter : remote at first , threatening death and rain , shrill , ascending then , like something sliding up ...
... Silence surrounded her in damp , hot layers , yet now , breaking this stillness , a single locust somewhere com- menced a loud chatter : remote at first , threatening death and rain , shrill , ascending then , like something sliding up ...
Page 65
... silence , smelling the perfume , the medicine , the ciga- rette smoke , unable to see . High above , an airplane droned past ; each of them stirred a little , listening : how far was it going , where ? On the wingtips lights would flash ...
... silence , smelling the perfume , the medicine , the ciga- rette smoke , unable to see . High above , an airplane droned past ; each of them stirred a little , listening : how far was it going , where ? On the wingtips lights would flash ...
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... silence . What on earth had he said ? The room itself was filled with noise . The ceremony had been the spring part of the affair , it had passed ; that was all innocence and had withered like April . Then there had been the summer ...
... silence . What on earth had he said ? The room itself was filled with noise . The ceremony had been the spring part of the affair , it had passed ; that was all innocence and had withered like April . Then there had been the summer ...
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