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Excerpt from The Spoils of the Strong
She was the first to relieve the situation of its tension, and she did it with the pride and ease of the accomplished woman of the world betrayed by self-forgetfulness into a momentary indiscretion. Without the smallest haste, and quite as if she were without further consciousness of his presence, her eyes traveled the length of the car, slowly returned, and then fell upon a book on the seat beside her, which she opened and began to read with an apparent interest that was, however, strangely belied by her failure to turn a page.
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