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Sister Carrie

CHAPTER XIX
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She began to feel the bitterness of the situation.

The feelings of the outcast descended upon her.

She hung at the wing's edge, wrapped in her own mounting thoughts.
She hardly heard anything more, save her own rumbling blood.
"Come, girls," said Mrs.Van Dam, solemnly, "let us look after our things.

They are no longer safe when such an accomplished thief enters." "Cue," said the prompter, close to her side, but she did not hear.
Already she was moving forward with a steady grace, born of inspiration.
She dawned upon the audience, handsome and proud, shifting, with the necessity of the situation, to a cold, white, helpless object, as the social pack moved away from her scornfully.
Hurstwood blinked his eyes and caught the infection.

The radiating waves of feeling and sincerity were already breaking against the farthest walls of the chamber.


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