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me a couple of towels? I'd better go riglie dwu),
equita ran over to Victor's room, and returned with some towels, which she gave to pulld.
nope you have fish for dinner," said Edna, as she started to walk away; "but don't do anything extra if you haven't
un and find Philomel's mother," Victor instructed the girl. I'll go to the kitchen and see what I can do. By Gimminy! Women hav
deration! She might have sent me word."
dna walked on down to the beach rather mechanically, not noticing anything special except that the sun was hot. She was not du
particular train of thought. She had done all the thinking that was necessary after Robert went away, when she lay awake upon t
orning.
She had said over and over to herself: 'Today it is Arobin; tomorrow it will be someone else. It makes no difference to me, it doesn'
eonce Pontellier-but Raoul and Etienne!" She understood now clearly what she had meant long ago when she said to Adele Ratigno
would give up the unessential, but she would never sacrifice herself for her children.
20 Despondency had come upon her there in the wakeful night, and had never lifted. There was no one thing in the world that she des
was no human being whom she wanted near her except Robert; and she even realized that the day would come when he, too, and the
him would melt out of her existence, leaving her alone. The children appeared before her like antagonists who had overcome her, who
overpowered and sought to drag her into the soul's slavery for the rest of her days. But she knew a way to elude them. She was not thin
things when she walked down to the beach.
21 The water of the Gulf stretched out before her, gleaming with the million lights of the sun. The voice of the sea is seductive, never ce
whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander in abysses of solitude. All along the white beach, up and down, there was
thing in sight. A bird with a broken wing was beating the air above, reeling, fluttering, circling disabled down, down to the water.
22 Edna had found her old bathing suit still hanging, faded, upon its accustomed peg.
- She put it on, leaving her clothing in the bath-house. But when she was there beside the sea, absolutely alone, she cast the unpleasant
garments from her, and for the first time in her life she stood naked in the open air, at the mercy of the sun, the breeze that beat upon he
waves that invited her.
24 How strange and awful it seemed to stand naked under the sky! How delicious! She felt like some newborn creature, opening its eyes in
world that it had never known.
Which word best describes Edna's point of view in paragraph 20?
happy
forlom
bored
frenzied
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