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Ethan Frome
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- But one phrase stuck in my memory and served as the nucleus about which I grouped my subsequent inferences: "Guess he's been in Starkfield too many winters."†
Chpt Open *inferences = things concluded or guessed by reasoning
- Once or twice in the past he had been faintly disquieted by Zenobia's way of letting things happen without seeming to remark them, and then, weeks afterward, in a casual phrase, revealing that she had all along taken her notes and drawn her inferences.†
Chpt 1
Definitions:
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(1)
(infer) to figure out or guess by reasoning
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)