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1.“‘…some few small aunts, not wanted in the kitchen, nor anywhere else for that matter, sat on the very edges of their chairs, poised and ____________________, afraid to break, like faded cups and saucers.’”
2.“‘…once I had a little ______________________ nose bag from an aunt….’”
3.“..we sang and ________________________all night and day in caves that smelt like Sunday afternoons in damp front farmhouse parlors.…”
4.Mrs. Prothero’s cry was, “to us, like the far-off challenge of our enemy and _________________, the neighbor’s polar cat.”
5.“…sometimes two hale young men…would trudge, unspeaking, down to the _________________ sea….”