but I actually think all I need to put me right is a quick pee in the bushes. No one could have said where this news (it was too firm and specific to be a rumor) began, and no one much cared; they simply passed it on. All at once she could smell what her nose no longer noticed under ordinary circumstances: must and dus n that always made her feel like slapping her headstrong niece until her nose bled and her great gray doe’s eyes gushed tears.
Bert couldn’t have done that, Alain thought with some pride. How clever he had believed they were being. Avery shook each boy by the hand, continuing to bow as he did so, and nothing Roland said could get him to stop until he was done. There were plenty of rocks in the dooryard she could throw it against, and even if her aim was bad and she missed them all, it might smash anyway.
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