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The Sowers

CHAPTER XXII
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A woman who is pretending to sleep usually does so in becoming attitudes.
De Chauxville did not speak again for some minutes.

He sat back in his chair, leaning his forehead on his hand, while he peeped through his slim fingers.

He could almost read the girl's thoughts as she put them into music.
"She does not hate him yet," he was reflecting.

"But she needs only to see him with Etta a few times and she will come to it." The girl played on, throwing all the pain in her passionate, untamed heart into the music.

She knew nothing of the world; for half of its temptations, its wiles, its wickednesses were closed to her by the plain face that God had given her.


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