"Exhaustion was pressing upon and overpowering her. "Good-by--because……" — Kate Chopin
"Exhaustion was pressing upon and overpowering her. "Good-by--because I love you." He did not know; he did not understand. He would never understand. Perhaps Doctor Mandelet would have understood if she had seen him--but it was too late; the shore was far behind her, and her strength was gone. She looked into the distance, and the old terror flamed up for an instant, then sank again."
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Kate Chopin
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69 Quotes by Kate Chopin
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So the storm passed and every one was happy.
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A bird with a broken wing was beating the air above, reeling, fluttering, circling disabled, down, down to the water
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