That's meant to be soft green grass"What about the wife,
Sergeant?"
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the
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ghastly mud, trying to lift torn shoulders and lolling head into her
lapHer hood fell away, revealing a pale fine-boned face, neatly
chignoned golden hair, blue eyes in shadowed circles of grief
Scarlett was frozen in placeTo move, to clatter wheels over cobbles
would be an obscene intrusion on the woman's tragedy
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woman's shoulderScarlett raced over the cobbles, the bloodspattered
grass, the edge of the churned mudShe grabbed the boy's armhe
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the strength in her armThe sound of it was like the crack of a rifle
shot"Get out of here, you filthy little devil! Get out of here
The boy ran, bawling with fear"Thank you," said the wife of the man
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"A doctor? Will he want to bleed him, do you think?" Her bitter,
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The woman's bloody hand seized the hem of Scarlett's skirtShe lifted
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locked in a room at the hotel to keep him away from the flogging
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