I found this awkwardly constructed sentence amusing when I first read it in one of Martha Grimes' mystery novels. I have been saving it for the right challenge and this seems to be it. Perhaps a better way to write this sentence would have been something like: As she rose, she put her glass on the small table beside the chair. But then this image would have no excuse for being.
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