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64 JOANNA RUOCCO You can see into the orchard from the tower. You can see into the orchard from the forest. On one side of the orchard, tower . On the other side, forest. I saw through the bushes in the forest, lights in the tower, shapes in the orchard. The house lit the orchard. It made shadows in the orchard. I sat in the bushes. She held the bough of the tree with her hands and her knees. She clung to the bough. She kicked her feet. She swung down. She dangled. Her face was red and wet. The spots on her face were red and wet. She lifted her knees as she dangled then she let her knees drop. She dropped to the earth. She lay in the apples. The Master lay in the apples. He pulled himself through the apples with his elbows. He slid through the apples. She pulled herself with her heels through the apples. She slid beneath the Master. He jerked against her. He jerked against her. He lifted her shoulders and her head fell back. The hairs on her head hung down to the apples. The crown of her head 28 65 ANOTHER GOVERNESS hung down to the apples. Her head hit the apples. She jerked up and down. Her head hit the apples. The brown skins of the apples clung to her neck. They clung to her shoulders. She slid. The Master pushed on his belly through the apples. Her back slid through the apples. The Master lifted his hand. He hit her head with an apple. He hit her head with a rock. The rock was brown like the apples. It was long and brown. It was a stick. The Master hit her head with a stick. He beat her head with a stick. He jerked against her. He beat with a stick. Black fluid darkened her head, it darkened her hair. Her body dripped with rain. Her body dried in the sun. She thinned in the sun. She withered. ...

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