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1 With a little quickening of his steady heart-beats, he awaited developments.
2 But Canning, seeing only silence for his pains, said with a little quickening of his tone:
3 Harriet, who had wandered out idly, felt a little quickening of her pulses as she saw him.
4 Anna felt a little quickening of excitement as they walked up the flagged path-shecould not look indifferently at the house where Malcolm lived.
5 Think hard; there must have been at least two little quickenings of the heartbeats in all that time.
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