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Not that such universally prevalent, universally jurant, feeling of Hope, could be a unanimous one.

When headlights appeared, someone would reel in a black string from his hedge, causing a stuffed white sock in the opposite hedge to slide and jerk, rabbitwise, onto the road so that the driver would just catch a gleam of faltering white in his headlights.

The kids had a ball playing in the fountain.