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She turned her attention, eagerly, to the task of getting Harold Crosby into fresher clothes. IF YOU CAN'T READ IT, DO YOU WANT ME TO READ IT ALOUD TO YOU? I am so ashamed of myself to remember this: that he would do even that for m Mary Beth Baird held the handkerchief to his nose, managing to cover his mouth, too-as if she were administering an anesthetic. I call it 'phenol,' Rawls said.

But in my Grade English class, the ever-clever Claire Clooney read that sentence aloud to the class and then asked me if I didn't think it was the awk-wardest sentence alive. thout their wallets would return immediately to their dormitory rooms and hand them over to an attendant faculty member. At each oath, the daughter shook and cringed-once or twice, she even covered her ears. ess and caring-and she was I I don't argue with that!-and that Hester was born to her antagonism toward