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| 20 | 437 | As it was View more quotes about dark">dark she had no idea what might be the closest shore. |
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| 20 | 434 | Last night, when Ellen had been in the water, unable to swim, fearing for her life amidst the maddened, frightened, thrashing tarns, she had clung desperately to the wicker. |
| 20 | 435 | Free of the harness it was forced away from the birds by their very struggles, their movements creating rolling swells of water, swirling into the darkness. |
| 20 | 436 | Too, Ellen, as she could, squirmed and paddled her float away from the turbulence. |
| 20 | 437 | As it was dark she had no idea what might be the closest shore. |
| 20 | 438 | She could crawl only half upon the wicker without forcing it beneath the water. |
| 20 | 439 | After a few minutes one of the tarns, that which had been fourth in the original line, and had been the leader of the six tarns once the line had been loosed or cut, lifted itself, wings beating, a few feet from the water, only to be dragged back down by the line linking it to his fellows. |
| 20 | 440 | But his action had begun an alignment, a pull in a particular direction. |