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Universal Dependencies - English - LinES

LanguageEnglish
ProjectLinES
Corpus Parttrain
AnnotationAhrenberg, Lars
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There was no one to bother about shooting rights. Afterwards as the evening faded he cleaned the gun almost by feel and the clean, practical smell of gun-oil conveyed the simple satisfaction of the task. Olivia played records with the living-room windows wide open so that the music came out to them. This summer it was Stravinsky and Poulenc; she was of the generation and class that paid other women to knit and now that she herself was about to be a grandmother she made funny stuffed toys for nieces and nephews. She had a cigar box full of odd buttons, as a supply of eyes, but she put it away from her because one of the things she had hated when she was young was the show of dissembling older women made when confronted with something vital to them. I suppose we said many times we'd come back when they got their independence. She gave a small, self-questioning shrug, admitting the glibness of another kind of daily talk in another time. It's not because of what one said. But both knew that, in those days, the important thing was to give Adamson Mweta faith in himself by positing a future that was real because you, a white person with nothing personal to gain by it, showed you believed it would come about. Gazing out across the valley and then calmly at him, she had her look of wanting to find out exactly what they were talking about.

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