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against each other brought out the perspiration in beads on her forehead. The swoop of bats in the darkness over her was as the wings of unearthly creatures.

J12. When she finally stumbled over the log bridge she drew one long shivering breath of relief.

K12 and the time he spelled my name without an E. on the blackboard;

L12. Jane Andrews had has been talking for a month about how glad she’d be when Mr. Phillips went away and she declared she’d never shed a tear. Well, she was worse than any of us and had to borrow a handkerchief from her brother because – of course the boy’s didn’t cry – because she hadn’t brought one of her own, not expecting to need it.

M12 Oh, I feel dreadfully sorry and