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Chapter VII
CASTING THE BAIT Loving and perishing: these have tallied from eternity. Love and death walk hand-in-hand. The will to love means also to be ready for death. Gabrielle Heyburn recognised this truth. She had the will to love, and she had the resolve to perish--perish by her own hand--rather than allow her secret to be exposed.
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left open to danger or view left open to danger or public view
From this reading “She had the will to love, and she had the resolve to perish--perish by her own hand--rather than allow her secret to be exposed.”
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “Love and death walk hand-in-hand.”
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading “CASTING THE BAIT Loving and perishing: these have tallied from eternity.”
Something that is kept or meant to be kept unknown or unseen by others.
From this reading “She had the will to love, and she had the resolve to perish--perish by her own hand--rather than allow her secret to be exposed.”
the plural of “this”: the people or things near, or just mentioned
From this reading “CASTING THE BAIT Loving and perishing: these have tallied from eternity.”
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From this reading She had the will to love, and she had the resolve to perish--perish by her own hand--rather than allow her secret to be exposed.
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From this reading The will to love means also to be ready for death.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading CASTING THE BAIT Loving and perishing: these have tallied from eternity.
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From this reading CASTING THE BAIT Loving and perishing: these have tallied from eternity.
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading The will to love means also to be ready for death.
showing who or what does the action
From this reading She had the will to love, and she had the resolve to perish--perish by her own hand--rather than allow her secret to be exposed.
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From this reading CASTING THE BAIT Loving and perishing: these have tallied from eternity.
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From this reading Love and death walk hand-in-hand.
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From this reading CASTING THE BAIT Loving and perishing: these have tallied from eternity.
left open to danger or view left open to danger or public view
From this reading She had the will to love, and she had the resolve to perish--perish by her own hand--rather than allow her secret to be exposed.
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading The will to love means also to be ready for death.
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading CASTING THE BAIT Loving and perishing: these have tallied from eternity.
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From this reading Gabrielle Heyburn recognised this truth.
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading She had the will to love, and she had the resolve to perish--perish by her own hand--rather than allow her secret to be exposed.
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From this reading She had the will to love, and she had the resolve to perish--perish by her own hand--rather than allow her secret to be exposed.
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From this reading Love and death walk hand-in-hand.
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading CASTING THE BAIT Loving and perishing: these have tallied from eternity.
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading She had the will to love, and she had the resolve to perish--perish by her own hand--rather than allow her secret to be exposed.
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From this reading Gabrielle Heyburn recognised this truth.
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From this reading Love and death walk hand-in-hand.
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From this reading CASTING THE BAIT Loving and perishing: these have tallied from eternity.
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From this reading The will to love means also to be ready for death.
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From this reading She had the will to love, and she had the resolve to perish--perish by her own hand--rather than allow her secret to be exposed.
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From this reading She had the will to love, and she had the resolve to perish--perish by her own hand--rather than allow her secret to be exposed.
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From this reading CASTING THE BAIT Loving and perishing: these have tallied from eternity.
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From this reading She had the will to love, and she had the resolve to perish--perish by her own hand--rather than allow her secret to be exposed.
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From this reading The will to love means also to be ready for death.
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From this reading Gabrielle Heyburn recognised this truth.
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From this reading She had the will to love, and she had the resolve to perish--perish by her own hand--rather than allow her secret to be exposed.
Something that is kept or meant to be kept unknown or unseen by others.
From this reading She had the will to love, and she had the resolve to perish--perish by her own hand--rather than allow her secret to be exposed.
a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading She had the will to love, and she had the resolve to perish--perish by her own hand--rather than allow her secret to be exposed.
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From this reading CASTING THE BAIT Loving and perishing: these have tallied from eternity.
used to introduce the second part of a comparison
From this reading She had the will to love, and she had the resolve to perish--perish by her own hand--rather than allow her secret to be exposed.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading CASTING THE BAIT Loving and perishing: these have tallied from eternity.
the plural of “this”: the people or things near, or just mentioned
From this reading CASTING THE BAIT Loving and perishing: these have tallied from eternity.
used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
From this reading Gabrielle Heyburn recognised this truth.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading The will to love means also to be ready for death.
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From this reading Gabrielle Heyburn recognised this truth.
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From this reading Love and death walk hand-in-hand.
used to talk about the future, or about willingness
From this reading The will to love means also to be ready for death.
