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have expressed a decided wish and you
It has happened again and again that I have expressed a decided wish, and you have seemed to assent, yet after that you have secretly disobeyed my wish.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

her eyes and demanded What are you
Thanksgiving Day dawned clear and cold upon a world of dazzling whiteness, and with the first ray of the sun, Peace flew out of bed, scrambling into her clothes with such eager haste that Cherry opened her eyes and demanded, "What are you hurrying for?
— from At the Little Brown House by Ruth Brown MacArthur

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