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Question 1

I went to the zoo and I saw an anteater, a buffalo, and a cangaroo.

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Question 2

This trip should have taken an hour and a half, and already they’d been on the road for three.

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Question 3

Your tomatoes look delicious, but what I really need is directions.

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Question 4

It was all a cottage is supposed to be, small and snug, with a front porch, pink climbing roses, and lots of trees for shade.

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Question 5

It was a tunnel, carefully hidden behind a clump of tall wildflowers and just the right size for going through on all fours.

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Question 6

Excuse me, said the boy with great dignity. My mother’s calling me and you’re in my way.

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Question 7

Then one of us has to apologize for you, for the family honor.

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Question 8

And practical people, she thought, shouldn’t go all silly and forgetful around handsome teenage boys.

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Question 9

And then I’d ask you to have pity on motherless girls brought up without a woman’s gentle influence, which doesn’t really count, because our father is gentle, but I thought it sounded good.

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Question 10

This gave her a chance to do some research for her book.

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Question 11

Well, you won’t be lonely for the next three weeks, because we’ll be here.

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Question 12

So she went upstairs to her neat white bedroom, pulled her math book out of her suitcase, and forgot all about the cookies.

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Question 13

One of his favorite sayings was, Take a walk, clear your head.

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Question 14

She crept out from behind the bush and over to the gate and put her eye to a knothole.

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Question 15

The king of the field, the bull, sauntered out into the sunshine and proudly surveyed his realm.

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Question 16

Their hearts laid bare by the near loss of a loved one, the two enemies declared a truce.

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Question 17

Something in her tiny rabbit brain had recognized the presence of a kindred spirit in the room.

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Question 18

Music is what I really want to do.

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Question 19

By taking in seams and adding tucks, I can make these dresses look like they were designed for you three.

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Question 20

Walking down that long room behind her back was nothing to doing it under her gaze.

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Question 21

She hated it when untrustworthy people made promises they wouldn’t keep.

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Question 22

They had escaped as soon as they could, which meant not until they had finished dinner and birthday cake.

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Question 23

A country club fit for kings

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Question 24

Whenever I try, she starts talking about how wonderful my grandfather was and how much I remind her of him.

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Question 25

She knew hearing bad things about yourself is one of the punishments for eavesdropping.

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Question 26

Do you know they allow boys to start as young as eleven?

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Question 27

In the meantime, she would work hard and write the best book she could.

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Question 28

All of that about the yard stretching to where the rabbits lived and maybe she could go by herself - wrong, wrong, wrong.

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Question 29

That's right, you shouldn't have, like you shouldn't be here in my gardens.

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Question 30

But this was his something-is-not-right-in-my-world bark.

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Question 31

He leapt right into them, and the two tumbled to the ground and rolled over and over in a frenzy of joyful reunion.

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Question 32

Satis eloquentiae, sapientiae parum.

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Question 33

As I was saying, in some cultures it's believed that when a person saves someone from death, he or she forever owns a part of that someone's soul.

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Question 34

They shot lots of rubber-tipped arrows, they practiced soccer, they even played hide-and-seek when desperate, until finally the competition day itself arrived.

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Question 35

A pair of navy blue high heels and, a little higher up, a white pleated linen skirt with a bit of crushed pink jasmine clinging to the hem.

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Question 36

Her face was dreadful to see - the fury, humiliation, and frustration, it was all there - but she was silent

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Question 37

How's the competition going?

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Question 38

An urn now full of glorious, lush, blooming pink jasmine.

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Question 39

This twine is keeping the ladder rolled up in the tree.

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Question 40

The family - her mother's! - honor was at stake, and she had to defend the people she loved the best.

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Question 41

She ran along the hedge, plunged through the tunnel, raced around the marble thunderbolt man, and came to a sudden halt, struck by the beauty of the place.

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Question 42

I needed some air, so I took a walk, fell into the lily pond, and hit my head on a rock.

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Question 43

I showed him my new book, and he told me the truth.

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Question 44

He was wearing his camouflage hat and a backpack and was carrying a bow.

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Question 45

Where are your wings?

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Question 46

It was even more horrible than I’d thought it would be

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Question 47

Her hair was sticking up in strange places, and she was wearing bedroom slippers and an old raincoat over her nightgown.

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Question 48

There was only a golf bag in his bed and this note

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Question 49

I’ll tell her that all I know so far is that he’s safe and that I’ll cal her after I’ve tortured the whole truth out of my children.

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Question 50

It’s between him and his mother now.

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Question 51

The sisters took turns watching out the window for him, but he never came, and he never called.

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Question 52

Four heads turned to watch the yellow cottage disappear slowly into the trees.

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Question 53

Good-bye, secret passage in the closet.

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Question 54

And there he was at her window, in his Red Sox cap, friendly and cheerful and just the same as always.

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Question 55

Thanks for all the plant talks

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Question 56

He cut through the hedge to the cottage in case you hadn’t left and sent me this way in case you had - and here he comes.

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Question 57

So we talked and then she cried, and we talked and she cried and that went on forever.

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Question 58

She said I’m allowed to take a music class at the conservatory!

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Question 59

Yes, he said good-bye for now.

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