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  1. Joyce Carol Oates _ The Falls

    and much more interesting.
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  2. Joyce Carol Oates _ The Falls

    Mrs. Erskine struck him as fierce and plain and haughty as one of those straight-backed red-haired girl-women in certain of the watercolors of Winslow Homer.
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  3. Joyce Carol Oates _ The Falls

    One thing it was not: love at first sight. He didn't believe in such. He wasn't a believer in romance, sentimental coincidences, "meanings" snatched out of the air. He certainly didn't believe in destiny, he was a gambler by nature and you know that destiny is just chance you try to manipulate for your own profit. Yet
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    He'd never risk his life if he could avoid it. "I'd rather live, thank you." In
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  5. Joyce Carol Oates _ The Falls

    It had given him a charge of entitlement and invincibility he would draw upon through life, like a limitless bank account.}
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  6. Joyce Carol Oates _ The Falls

    REGINALD BURNABY THE GREAT {variously identified as a defrocked Roman Catholic priest from Galway, an ex-convict from Liverpool, if not an escaped convict from that seaport city}
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    You keep asking me that," she said sharply. "No. I don't care to notify anyone. I can't bear a crowd of relatives around me. I threw away that damned corset in a trash can. I won't return to that." There
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  8. Joyce Carol Oates _ The Falls

    You don't understand! Gilbert turned his back on me, but he wouldn't have turned his back on God." Ariah
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    She was standing with her thin arms lifted in a pose of crucifixion as the white satin gown with its myriad pearl buttons, tucks and pleats and ingenious lace trim, was fitted onto her like an exquisite straitjacket. Mrs. Littrell had insisted upon the corset, Ariah could scarcely breathe. I take thee Gilbert. My lawfully wedded husband. A sneeze would have shattered the corset, and the wedding. At police headquarters, the bride of the "fallen" man was clearly to blame. Ariah
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  10. Joyce Carol Oates _ The Falls

    Ariah struck suddenly at her face with both fists. She wanted to pummel, blacken her eyes that had seen too much.
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  11. Joyce Carol Oates _ The Falls

    You wear out. You see too much. Every breath hurts. The
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  12. Joyce Carol Oates _ The Falls

    we're sick of ourselves."
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