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twenty-seven years old and therefore four years older than Theobald. The younger
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packed off then and there on visits to friends some way off, and those alone
allowed to remain at home whose loyalty could be depended upon. The brothers did
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how long she lived. Subconsciously she was fighting to keep the street voices
out of her mind. They were saying things she did not wish to hear, things she
would not hear.
Finally, she recovered enough to stand up and shut the window. That brought
her a terrible temptation to look down into the mass of men in the street--and
women, too! But she resisted and looked up. The forms of the street remained
obscurely in the bottom of her vision, and made her think of something she had
seen in the woods--a colony of ants around a dead beetle. Presently the door
opened and Vance came back. Through traffic so heavy that front-, rear-, and
side-bumpers almost touched he drove with his wonted cool skill; even though,
consciously, he did not know that the other cars were there. He slowed, turned,
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at all, he would have known to be a hopeless task. But he did not think; he
simply acted, dumbly, miserably. His eyes saw, optically; his body reacted,
mechanically; his thinking brain was completely in abeyance. Into a one-way
skyway he rocketed, along it over the suburbs and into the transcontinental
super-highway.
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