Beloved

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It made him the most visible and memorable person at every gathering, and cartoonists had fastened onto the theatricality of his white hair and big black mustache whenever they depicted local political antagonism.

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...asked how he might get North. Free North. Magical North. Welcoming, benevolent North.

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Now, eight years after her contentious funeral ... he changed his mind.

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Caught red-handed, so to speak, they would seem to recognize the futility of outsmarting a whiteman and the hopelessness of outrunning a rifle.

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Plotting has changed Denver markedly. Where she was once indolent, resentful of every task, now she is spry, executing, even extending the assignments Sethe leaves for them.

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Privacy was an adult indulgence, but when he got to be one, he seemed not to need it.

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Listless and sleepy with hunger Denver saw the flesh between her mother's forefinger and thumb fade.

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Together they waged a perfunctory battle against the outrageous behavior of that place; against turned-over slop jars, smacks on the behind, and gusts of sour air.

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she dispensed with rancor, was indiscriminately polite, saving her real affection for the unpicked children of Cincinnati,

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all that had been mocked and rebuked by the bloodspill in her backyard.

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If I did you harm, I'm here to rectify it.

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Buglar and Howard grew furious at the company of the women in the house, and spent in sullen reproach any time they had away from their odd work...

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Beloved did not look at Paul D; her scrutiny was for Sethe.

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Later he punctured her calf to simulate snakebite so she could use it in some way as an excuse for not being on time to shake worms from tobacco leaves.

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A tranquil Republic?

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followed her through the door straight into a pool of red and undulating light that locked him where he stood.