The way it filled up her worn money holder gave her a feeling of importance that she had not enjoyed for years.

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She gave up presently as if a cloud had approached the sun or the smog thickened and so broken the religious instant, whatever it might have been.

现在她放弃了，就像乌云蔽日,烟雾笼罩,这个宗教瞬间也破碎了，不管它之前是这么样子。

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