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to watch him down the driveway. Callie was holding the baby..., and Henry
was close beside her, a little behind her, like a balding upright bear
with one paw on her shoulder, waving too. The dog was at her other side...
And beyond that there was the light in the living room windows, giving
figures on the porch a kind of aura, their faces not as light as their
outlines16.
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little by little he had come to see it less as yarn told after dinner...
and more as a kind of chirch service communion, say, or a wedding...
It began, perhape, with his thoughts of what marrying Callie had done to
him, if she'd made him into her own image it was nevertheless her own image
discovered in him: Henry Soames as he might, through her, become... He
felt like a man who'd been born again, made into something entirely new,
and the idea... had startled him.18
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grinning into the flickering light... and without a word of warning he'd
blown that TV screen to hell, right back where it came from... The old
woman, his sister, ...was up there in the bedroom furiously pacing, locked
in the bedroom by her brother's hand...25.
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the oldest of them... opened it hungrily... Tears streemed down the old
man's face, though what he felt didn't even seem sorrow, seemed merely
knowledge, knowledge of all from inside26.
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