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| 2 | 153 | As her View more quotes about body">body grew older, and began to dry, and wither, and tire, and began to regard her ever more reproachfully, and sadly, in the mirror, and she went through her change of life, which had been a terrible and troubling time for her, in her loneliness, and in her lack of love and children, she remained aloof, severe, unsexual, professional, virginal. |
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| 2 | 150 | She had sensed, you see, that their intentions might have been physical, at least in part, and thus to be resisted and deplored. |
| 2 | 151 | It was rather as though, if they were interested in her as a woman, their intentions could not be honorable, and she rejected, and feared, them; and if they were such that she had little doubt of the honorableness of their intentions, she had found them inferior, despicable, repulsive, hypocritical and boring. |
| 2 | 152 | She had, through the years, thus, dutifully preserved the independence and integrity of her personness. |
| 2 | 153 | As her body grew older, and began to dry, and wither, and tire, and began to regard her ever more reproachfully, and sadly, in the mirror, and she went through her change of life, which had been a terrible and troubling time for her, in her loneliness, and in her lack of love and children, she remained aloof, severe, unsexual, professional, virginal. |
| 2 | 154 | She realized she was growing old, and was alone. |
| 2 | 155 | She was disappointed with her life. |
| 2 | 156 | And she saw nothing much before her to look forward to. |