She felt as though he was performing the preliminaries for a wrestling match, but smiled wanly till he let her go and moved over to Alpiew.
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He smiled wanly, shading his eyes from the light of the standard lamp feebly with his hand.
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At that Lohengrin stood up, smiled wanly at Claire, and left, walking quickly.
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