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Mrs. Pontellier reached over for a palm-leaf fan that lay on the
porch and began to fan herself, while Robert sent between his
lips light puffs from his cigarette. They chatted incessantly:
about the things around them; their amusing adventure out in the
water—it had again assumed its entertaining aspect; about the
wind, the trees, the people who had gone to the Chênière; about
the children playing croquet under the oaks, and the Farival
twins, who were now performing the overture to "The Poet and the
Peasant."   He was spending his summer vacation, as he always
did, with mother at Grand Isle. In former times, before Robert
could remember, "the house" had been a summer luxury of the
Lebruns. Now, flanked by its dozen or more cottages, which were
always filled with exclusive visitors from the "Quartier
Français," it enabled Madame Lebrun to maintain the easy and
comfortable existence whi