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The Egg and Other Stories, Sherwood Anderson
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Sherwood Anderson

The Egg and Other Stories

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    They hated each other with whole-hearted hatred, that old Polish woman and the German
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    There was something very dear and beautiful in my Ellen and I must make Mary understand that. It will help her to be a beautiful woman," he
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    that had settled down upon her but it was misinterpreted by Duke Yetter
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    took hold of him
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    I will think that for an hour I was closer to her than I have ever been to anyone else
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    sometimes in the evening when I am walking alone in the street or in the park as we are walking now, and when evening comes softly and quickly as it has come to-night, the feeling of her comes sharply into my body and mind. After that one meeting I never saw her again. On the next day I was married and I have never gone back into her street. Often however as I am walking along as I am doing now, a quick sharp earthy feeling takes possession of me. It is as though I were a seed in the ground and the warm rains of the spring had come. It is as though I were not a man but a tree
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    What I am trying to say is that something of her faith in her own desires and her courage in seeing things through went with me. Is that clear to you
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    after she had come to me at my apartment she went entirely out of my mind
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    When I opened the door she stepped quickly in and I took her into my arms. We stood together in the darkness. My hands no longer trembled. I felt very happy and strong
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    The woman came at seven o'clock, and, as you may have guessed, I let her in and forgot the resolution I had made. It is likely I never had any intention of doing anything else. There was a bell on my door, but
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