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    Monday, January 3rd, 2011
    2:39 am
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    The stupor, the stoicism with which he had protected himself on the patrol so far was rapidly dissolvingHe hated Martinez at this second for having said Cartier watch tank what he didHe had never quite allowed himself to state this fear before on the patrol"Just like the fuggin Army," he said furiously, and again he felt guilty for having used an obscenity
    "What're you gettin' your balls in an uproar?" Polack asked
    "No priest," Martinez said eagerlyPolack had spoken with such louis vuitton tote assurance that Martinez was certain he had some answer, some escape from the aisles of the catechism
    "You think it ain't important?" Gallagher asked
    "Listen, you want to know somethin?" Polack said"You don't got to worry about that stuffIt's all a lousy racket
    They were appalledGallagher peeked chanel white bag instinctively over his shoulder at the mountainBoth he and Martinez wished they were not sitting with Polack"What are you, a fuggin atheist?" This time the profanity did not matterGallagher was thinking that it was true the Italians and Polacks always made the worst Catholics
    "You believe that crap?" Polack mulberry bag asked"Listen, I been t'rough the mill, I know what the score isIt's just a goddam good racket for makin' money
    Martinez tried not to listen
    Polack was riding his angerA long-repressed hostility was coming out, and with it a sustaining bravado, for he also was afraidHe felt as if he were taunting a guy like Lefty replica balenciaga Ri
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    The water was less rough, and the spray had become infrequentMartinez looked about the boat, listened for a moment to the random sounds of conversation, and shrugged again
    Gallagher had come back to his cot, which was adjacent to Martinez's, and he lay down without saying anythingGoldstein was uncomfortable; he had not spoken to Gallagher for over a month"It's a wonder none of the men are seasick," Goldstein said at last"These boats aren't good for traveling
    "Roth, Wyman, they're sick," Martinez said
    Goldstein shrugged proudlyI'm used to being on boatsA friend of mine had a sailboat on Long Island, and in the summer I used to go out with him a lotI enjoyed it thoroughly He thought of the Sound and the pale dunes that surrounded it"It was beautiful thereYou know you can't beat America for beautiful country
    "You can say that again, brother," Gallagher snorted suddenly
    It was just his way of talking, Goldstein decidedHe didn't mean any harm"Did you ever go out on boats, Gallagher?" he asked mildly
    Gallagher raised himself on an elbow"Aaah, I went canoeing once in a while out on the Charles, past West RoxburyUsed to go with my wife He said it first, and then thought about itHis face altered for an instant, assumed a numb stricken cast
    "Oh, I'm sorry," Goldstein breathed Gallagher felt some irritation at getting sympathy from a
    Sunday, January 2nd, 2011
    2:39 am
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    I'd love some coffeeSometimes I miss it so much I want to scream
    oh Lord, more gushingAt least it doesn't tiffany 925 hurtHardly a
    contraction at all, more a twitch or something Then why does so
    much blood gush out? What's going to happen when the real labor
    starts? Dear God, there'll be a river of blood, all over the floor
    Everybody'll have to wash their feetFitzpatrick
    has a bucket of feet gold gucci watch waterI wonder if she hollers before she throws
    it out? I wonder where the hell she is? As soon as this is over I'm
    going to fire her-no references, either, at least nothing she'll want
    to show anybodyRunning off and leaving me dying of thirst here all
    by myselfDon't kick like omega seamaster watch thatYou're more like a mule than a
    horseI'm not going to lose hold of myself,
    I'm notThe O'Hara doesn't do that kind of thingWhat was that? The doctor? Mrs"Are you doing all right, MrsO'Hara?"
    "Just fine," said The O'Hara"I've brought sheets and blankets and
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    anything
    for you?"
    "I'd like some water Scarlett propped herself on an elbow and drank
    thirstily"Who's getting the doctor?"
    "ColumHe tried to cross the river for the doctor in Adamstown, but
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    2:26 am
    @@@@@The telegram had arrived while
    @@@@@The telegram had arrived while she
    and
    Rosemary were out shopping: Cousin Townsend Ellinton and his wife
    were
    coming down from Philadelphia to visit"Two days' notice!" Eleanor
    exclaimed"Can you credit it? You'd think they'd never heard of the
    War
    "They'll be staying in a suite at the Charleston Hotel, Mama," Rhett
    said soothingly, "and we'll take them to the BallIt won't be too
    bad
    "It will be awful," said Rosemary"I don't see any reason we have to
    put ourselves out to be nice to Yankees
    "Because they're our kin," said her mother severely"And you will be
    extremely nice
    Besides, your Cousin Townsend isn't a Yankee at allHe fought with
    General Lee Rosemary frowned and was silentMiss Eleanor began
    to
    laugh"I must stop complaining," she said"It'll be worth it in the
    long run to see Townsend and Henry Wragg meet each other
    Townsend's cross-eyed, and Henry's walleyedDo you suppose they'll
    be
    able to manage to shake hands?" * * The Ellintons weren't so bad,
    Scarlett thought, even though you didn't know where to look when you
    talked to Cousin TownsendHis wife Hannah wasn't as beautiful as
    Miss
    Eleanor had predicted, which was agreeable
    However, her pearl-sewn ruby brocade ball gown and diamond dogcollar
    made Scarlett feel miserably frumpy in her tired claret velvet and
    camelliasThank Heaven this was the last ball, and the end of the
    SeasonI would have called anybody a liar if they'd said I could ever
    get tired of dancing, but I've had more than my fillOh, if only
    everything was settled about Tara! She had followed Rhett's advice,
    she'd thought about going to SavannahBut the prospect of day after
    day with her aunts was more than she could bear, and she had
    decided to
    wait for the Mother Superior's return to CharlestonRosemary was
    going to visit Miss Julia Ashley, so that thorn would be out of her
    fleshAnd Miss Eleanor was always good comp
    Saturday, January 1st, 2011
    2:39 am
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    It seems like there are some things thatcan'tdie
    In our mind, their faces were close and clearThe love we felt for Jared and Jamiedid feel very
    permanentIn that moment, I wondered if death was strong enough to dissolve something so
    vital andsharpPerhaps this love would live on with her, in some fairytale place with pearly
    gates
    Would it be a relief to be free of it? I wasn't sureIt felt like it was part of who I was now
    We only lasted a few hoursEven Melanie's tremendous strength of mind could ask no more
    than that of our failing bodyWe couldn't seem to find the oxygen in the
    dry air we sucked in and spit back outThe pain brought rough whimpers breaking through our
    lips
    You've never had itthisbad, I teased her feebly as we staggered toward a dried stick of a tree
    standing a few feet taller than the low brushWe wanted to get to the thin streaks of shade
    before we fell
    We attained our purposeThe dead tree threw its cobwebby shadow over us, and our legs fell
    out from under usWe sprawled forward, never wanting the sun on our face againOur head
    turned to the side on its own, searching for the burning airWe stared at the dust inches from
    our nose and listened to the gasping of our breath
    After a time, long or short we didn't know, we closed our eyesOur lids were red and bright
    insideWe couldn't feel the faint web of shade; maybe it no longer touched us
    How long?I asked her
    I don't know, I've never died before
    An hour? More?
    Your guess is as good as mine
    Where's a coyote when you really need one?
    Maybe we'll get lucky… escaped claw beast or something…Her thought trailed off incoherentl
    2:26 am
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    beyond your miserable expectations and now you question me? How would I know the things I
    know—how could I have poured my concentration and my resources into you here in this room if I
    were not among the most privileged in Moscow? Remember who I am!”
    “But we don’t know who you are,” said another man, risingLike the other males, his clothes
    were neat, somber and well pressed, but there was a difference in that they were better tailored, as
    though he took considerable pains with his appearanceHis face, too, was different; it was paler
    than the others and his eyes were more intense, more focused somehow, giving the impression that
    when he spoke he weighed his words with great care“Beyond louis vuitton multicolor the clerical title you’ve
    appropriated, we have no knowledge as to your identity and you obviously do not care to reveal it
    As to what you know, you’ve recounted blatant weaknesses and subsequent injustices in our
    departmental systems, but they are rampant throughout the ministriesYou might as well have
    picked a dozen others like us from a dozen other divisions, and I dare say the complaints would
    have been the sameNothing new there—”
    “How dare you?” screamed Carlos the Jackal, the veins in his neck pronounced“Who are you
    to say such things to me? I am the monseigneur from Paris, a true son of the Revolution!”
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    “And I am a judge advocate in the Ministry of Legal Procedures, Comrade bags dolce and gabbana Monseigneur, and a
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    your minions, but I know the penalties for taking the legal processes in our own hands and
    personally—secretly—confronting our superiors rather than reporting directly to the Bureau of
    IrregularitiesThey are penalties I’d rather not face without far more thorough evidentiary materials
    than unsolicited dossiers from unknown sources, conceivably invented by discontented officials
    below even our levelsFrankly, I don’t care to see them, for I will not be compromised by
    gratuitous pretrial testimony that can be injurious to my position
    “You are an insignificant lawyer!” roared the assassin in priest’s clothing, now replica tiffany jewelry repeatedly
    clenching his hands into fists, his eyes becoming bloodshot“You are all twisters of the truth! You
    are sworn companions of the prevailing winds of convenience!”
    “Nicely said,” said the attorney from Legal Procedures, smiling“Except, comrade, you stole the
    phrase from the English Blackstone
    “I will not tolerate your insufferable insolence!”
    “You don’t have to, Comrade Priest, for I intend to leave, and my legal advice to all here in this
    room is to do the same
    “You dare?”
    “I certainly do,” replied the Soviet attorney, granting himself a moment of humor as he looked
    around the gathering and grinned“I might have to prosecute myself, and I’m far too good at my
    job
    “The money!” shrieked the Jackal“I’ve sent you all gucci mens watch thousands!”
    “Where is it recorded?” asked the lawyer with an air of innocence“You, yourself, made sure it
    was untraceablePaper bags in our mail slots, or in our office drawers—notes attached instructing
    us to burn themWho among our citizens would admit to having placed them there? That way lies
    the LubyankaGood-bye, Comrade Monseigneur,” said the attorney for the Ministry of Legal
    Procedures, scraping his chair in place and starting for the door
    One by one, as they had arrived, the assembled group followed the lawyer, each looking back at
    the strange man who had so exotically, so briefly, interrupted their tedious lives, all knowing
    instinctively that in his path were disgrace and execution
    Yet none was prepared for what messenger bag prada followed
    Friday, December 31st, 2010
    2:39 am
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    "Well, I do," he said"I killed a fucking
    alligator to get here; I'm not leaving without at
    least a look around the old homesteadThe pantry
    floor looks solid, and it's the closest to the
    groundCome on, you two, let's pile up some shit
    to stand onA couple of those beams should do
    Jack, you can go first, then help meWe'll pull
    Edgar up together
    And that's how we did it, dirty and disheveled and
    out pasha cartier watch of breath, scrambling first into the pantry
    and going from there into the house itself,
    looking around with wonder, feeling like time
    travelers, tourists in a world that had ended over
    eighty years before
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    fine old wallpaper in the parlor hung in strips,
    and there was a huge paper nest, ancient and
    silent, clinging to the ceiling in the rotting
    front hallBelow it, dead wasps lay in a footdeep
    hill on the warped cypress floorboards
    Somewhere, in what remained of the upstairs, water
    was dripping, one isolated drop at a time
    "The cypress and redwood in this place would have
    been worth a black chanel tote fortune if somebody had come up and
    got it before it went to hell," Jack saidHe bent
    down, seized the end of a protruding board, and
    pulledIt came up, bent almost like taffy, then
    broke off - not with a snap but a listless crump
    A few woodlice came strolling from the rectangular
    hole below itThe smell that puffed up was dank
    and dark
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    "No," I saidThe Heron's Roost at this
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    2:26 am
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    "All right, Edgar, I think we're almost finished
    Maybe she saw something on my face, because Mary
    laughed"Has it been that awful?"
    "No," I said, and it hadn't been, really, although
    her questions about my technique had made me feel
    uncomfortableWhat it came down to was I looked
    at things, then slopped on the paintThat was my
    techniqueAnd influences? What could I say? The
    lightIt always came down to the light, both in
    the pictures I liked to look at and the ones I
    liked to paintWhat it did to the surface of
    things, and what it seemed to suggest about what
    was inside, hunting a way outBut that didn't
    sound scholarly; to my ears it sounded goofy
    "Okay," she said, "last subject: how many more
    paintings are there?"
    We were sitting in Mary Ire's penthouse apartment
    on Davis Islands, a tony Tampa enclave which
    looked to me like the art deco capital of the
    worldThe living room was a vast, nearly empty
    space with a couch at one end and two slingback
    chairs at the otherThere were no books, but then,
    603
    there was no TV, eitherOn the east wall, where
    it would catch the early light, was a large David
    HockneyMary and I were at opposite ends of the
    couchShe had her shorthand pad in her lapThere
    was an ashtray perched beside her on the arm of
    the sofaBetween us was a big silver Wollensak
    tape-recorderIt had to be fifty years old, but
    the reels turned soundlesslyGerman engineering,
    baby
    Mary wore no make-up, but her lips were coated
    with clear goo that made them shineHer hair was
    tied up in a careless, coming-apart twist that
    looked simultaneously elegant and slatternlyShe
    smoked English Ovals and sipped what looked like
    straight Scotch from a Waterford tumbler (she
    offered me a drink and seemed disappointed when I
    opted for bottled water)She wore tailored cotton
    slacksHer face looked old, used, and sexyIts
    best days might have been around the time Bonnie
    and Clyde was playing in theaters, but her eyes
    were still breathtaking, even with lines at the
    corners, cracks in the eyelids, and no make-up to
    enhance
    Thursday, December 30th, 2010
    2:39 am
    @@@@@ “Upon my word, it is really a pity that it
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    “Upon my word, it is really a pity that it should not take place
    directly, if we had but a proper licence, for here we are altogether,
    and nothing in the world could be more snug and pleasant And
    she talked and laughed about it with so little caution as to catch the
    comprehension of MrRushworth and his mother, and expose her
    sister to the whispered gallantries of her lover, while MrsRushworth
    spoke with proper smiles and dignity of its being a most happy
    event to her whenever it took place
    “If Edmund were but in orders!” cried Julia, and running to where
    he stood with Miss Crawford and Fanny: “My dear Edmund, if you
    were but in orders now, you might perform the ceremony directly
    How unlucky that you are not ordained; MrRushworth and Maria
    are quite ready
    Miss Crawford’s countenance, as Julia spoke, might have amused
    a disinterested observerShe looked almost aghast under the new
    idea she was receiving“How distressed she will be
    at what she said just now,” passed across her mind
    “Ordained!” said Miss Crawford; “what, are you to be a clergyman?”
    “Yes; I shall take orders soon after my father’s return—probably at
    Christmas
    Miss Crawford, rallying her spirits, and recovering her complexion,
    replied only, “If I had known this before, I would have spoken
    of the cloth with more respect,” and turned the subject
    The chapel was soon afterwards left to the silence and stillness
    which reigned in it, with few interruptions, throughout the year
    Miss Bertram, displeased with her sister, led the way, and all seemed
    to feel that they had been there long enough
    The lower part of the house had been now entirely shewn, and
    MrsRushworth, never weary in the cause, would have proceeded
    78
    Mansfield Park
    towards the principal staircase, and taken them through all the rooms
    above, if her son had not interposed with a doubt of there being
    time enough“For if,” said he, with the sort of self-evident proposition
    which many a clearer head does not always avoid, “we are too
    long going over the house, we shall not have time for what is to be
    done out of doorsIt is past two, and we are to dine at fiveRushworth submitted; and the question of surveying the
    grounds, with the who and the how, was likely to be more fully
    agitated, and MrsNorris was beginning to arrange by what junction
    of carriages and horses most could be done, when the young
    people, meeting with an outward door, temptingly open on a flight
    of steps which led immediately to turf and shrubs, and all the sweets
    of pleasure-grounds, as by one impulse, one wish for air and liberty,
    all walked out
    “Suppose we turn down here for the present,” said MrsRushworth,
    civilly taking the hint and following them“Here are the greatest
    number of our plants, and here are the curious pheasantsCrawford, looking round him, “whether we
    may not find something to employ us here before we go farther? I
    see walls of great promiseRushworth, shall we summon a council
    on this lawn?”
    “James,” said
    2:26 am
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    For example, one dad would say, "The love of money is the root of all evil The other, "The lack of money is the root of all evil
    As a young boy, having two strong fathers both influencing me was difficultI wanted to be a good son and listen, but the two fathers did not say the same thingsThe contrast in their points of view, particularly where money was concerned, was so extreme that I grew curious and intriguedI began to start thinking for long periods of time black quilted bag about what each was saying
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    One of the reasons the rich get richer, the poor get poorer, and the middle class struggles in debt is because the subject of money is taught at home, not in schoolMost of us learn about money from our parentsSo what can a poor parent tell their child about money? They simply say "Stay in school and study hard The child may graduate with excellent grades but with a poor person's financial programming and mind-setIt was learned while the child was omega deville watch young
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    Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
    2:39 am
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    Ridges got up at last, and they wavered slowly through the water, feeling it recede to their ankles, become shallow once moreThe stream broadened, rolex watches women rippled over pebbles, became muddy and then sandyThey staggered around a bend and saw the sunlight and the ocean beyond
    A few minutes later they staggered up on the beachDespite their exhaustion they walked on for a hundred yardsSomehow it was distasteful to stay too near to the river
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    2:26 am
    @@@@@She cries on the bed like a little girlHe
    @@@@@She cries on the bed like a little girlHe realizes abruptly after two and a half years of marriage that when she forms that smile she is close to hysteria and terror and perhaps even loathingThe knowledge freezes in his chest
    After a moment he flops down beside her, cushions her head, and tries to comfort her weeping, his numb hand moving over her forehead and face

    In the morning none of it seems so awful, and by the end of a week he has nearly forgotten itBut on his side it marks the end or almost the end of one expectation from marriage, and for Natalie it means she must pretend excitement in order to avoid hurting himTheir marriage settles again like a foundation seeking bedrockFor them, that species of failure is not acute, not really dangerousThey ensconce themselves in their child, in adding and replacing furniture, in discussing insurance and finally buying someThere are the problems of his work, his slow advances, the personalities of the men in the shopHe takes to bowling with a few of them, and Natalie joins the sisterhood at the local temple, induces them finally to give courses in the danceThe rabbi is a young man, quite liked because he is modernOn Wednesday nights they have a baby sitter, and listen to his lectures on bestsellers in the social room
    They expand, put on weight, and give money to charitable organizations to help refugeesThey are sincere and friendly and happy, and nearly everyone likes themAs their son grows older, begins to talk, there are any number of pleasures they draw from himThey are content and the habits of marriage lap about them like a warm bathThey never feel great joy but they are rarely depressed, and nothing immediate is ever excessive or cruel
    The war comes and Joey doubles his salary with overtime and promotionHe is up before the draft board twice and is deferred each time, but in 1943 when they start drafting the fathers he does not try for an exemption because he is a war workerThere is a sense of guilt in all the familiar landscape of his home, there is the discomfort of walking the street in civilian clothesMore, he has convictions, reads PM from time to time, although he will say that it upsets him too muchHe reasons it all out with Natalie, is drafted against the protests of his boss
    In the draft-board office on the early morning when he reports for induction he talks to a father like himself, a portly fellow with a mustache
    Oh, no, I told my wife to stay at home, Joey says, I figured it would be too upsetting for her
    Monday, December 27th, 2010
    2:39 am
    @@@@@The saloon produced excellent income and
    @@@@@The saloon produced excellent
    income and was no trouble at allBut she'd made up her mind to cut
    herself free of Atlanta, and that included the saloonWhat about the
    houses she was building? She didn't know anything at all about that
    projectShe had to check and make sure the builder was still using
    Ashley's lumber She had to make sure Ashley was all rightShe'd promised MelanieThen, when she was done with
    Atlanta,
    she would go to TaraBecause once Wade and Ella
    learned they were going home with her, they'd be anxious to get
    going
    It wouldn't be fair to keep them danglingAnd saying goodbye to Tara
    would be the hardest thing she had to doBest to do it quickly; it
    wouldn't hurt so much thenOh, how she longed to see itThe long
    slow miles up the Savannah River from the sea to the city seemed to
    go
    on forever
    The ship had to be towed by a steampowered tugboat through the
    channel
    Scarlett walked restlessly from one side of the deck to the other with
    Cat in her arms, trying to enjoy the baby's excited reaction to the
    marsh birds' sudden eruption into flightThey were so close now, why
    couldn't they get there? She wanted to see America, hear American
    voices"Oh, and
    listen, Cat, listen to the singingThose are black folks' songs, this
    is the South, feel the sun? It will last for days and daysOh, my
    darling, my Cat, Momma's home Maureen's kitchen was just as it
    had
    been, nothing had changedThe family was the same
    The swarms of O'Hara children
    Patricia's baby was a boy, almost a year old, and Katie was pregnant
    Cat was embraced at once into the daily rhythms of the three-house
    homeShe regarded the other children with curiosity, pulled their
    hair, submitted to hers being pulled, became one of t
    2:26 am
    @@@@@"If you could be saying a small blessing on
    @@@@@"If you could be saying a small blessing on the work,
    Father? The lintel to the Chapel of the Sacred Heart was set not an
    hour agoWhy, he sounds just like Pa at his most Irish
    Scarlett bowed her head for the priest's blessing, as did the groups of
    workmenHer eyes smarted from the tang of the cut pine and the
    quick
    tears for her father that she blinked awayI'll go see Pa's brothers,
    she decidedNo matter that they must be about a hundred years old,
    Pa
    would want me to go and say hello at least
    She walked with the priest back to the convent, and another placid
    refusal by the elderly nun when she asked to see the Mother Superior
    Scarlett kept her temper, but her eyes were dangerously bright"Tell
    her I'll be back this afternoon," she saidAs the tall iron gate
    swung closed behind her Scarlett heard the sound of church bells from
    a
    few blocks awayShe was going to be late for
    dinnersmelled fried chicken as soon as she opened the door of the
    big pink house"Take these things," she said to Pansy, and she got
    out of her cape and hat and gloves with record speedEulalie looked at her with huge mournful eyes when she
    entered
    the dining room"Pere wants to see you, Scarlett
    "Can't it wait until after dinner? I'm starving
    "He said 'the minute she comes'" Scarlett picked up a steaming hot roll
    from the bread basket and took an angry bite as she swung on her
    heel
    She finished it while she marched to her grandfather's roomThe old
    man frowned at her over the tray that rested on his lap in the big
    bed
    His plate, Scarlett saw, held only mashed potatoes and a mound of
    soggy-looking bits of carrotMy grief! No wonder he looks so
    fierce
    There's not even any butter on the potatoesEven if he doesn't have
    a
    tooth in his head, they could feed him better than that"I do not
    tolerate a disregard for the schedule of my house," said the old man
    "I'm sorry, Grandfath
    Sunday, December 26th, 2010
    2:39 am
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    @@@@@I couldn't hear anyone else, and this made no
    senseThey wouldn't have left me without a warden, would they? Uncle Jeb and his
    omnipresent rifle, or someone less sympatheticTo leave me alone… that wouldn't be in
    character with their brutality, their natural fear and hatred of what I was
    Unless…
    I tried to swallow, but terror closed my throatThey wouldn't leave me aloneNot unless they
    thought I was dead, or had made sure that Iwould beNot unless there were places in these
    caves that no one came back from
    The picture I'd been forming of my surroundings shifted dizzyingly in my headI saw myself
    now at the bottom of a deep shaft or walled into a cramped tombMy breathing sped up, tasting
    the air for staleness, for some sign that my oxygen was running lowThe muscles around my
    lungs pulled outward, filling with air for the scream that was on the wayI clenched my teeth to
    keep it from escaping
    Sharp and close, something grated across the ground beside my head
    I shrieked, and the sound of it was piercing in the small spaceI jerked
    away from the sinister noise, throwing myself against a jagged rock wallMy hands swung up to
    protect my face as my headthunk ed painfully against the low ceiling
    A dim light illuminated the perfectly round exit to the tiny bubble of a cave I was curled in
    Jared's face was half lit as he leaned into the opening, one arm reaching toward meHis lips
    were tight with angerA vein in his forehead pulsed as he watched my panicked reaction
    He didn't move; he just stared furiously while my heart restarted and my breathing evened outI
    met his glare, remembering how quiet he had always been–like a wraith when he wantedNo
    wonder I hadn't heard him sitting guard outside my cell
    But I had heardsomethingAs I remembered that, Jared shoved his extended arm closer, and the
    grating noise repe
    2:26 am
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    “The crowd’s coming out of the armory—”
    “Here!” interrupted Krupkin, painfully reaching into his pocket and pulling out his plastic
    identification case“Get to the idiot in charge and bring him to meFor
    Aleksei, you damn foolHurry!”
    The two wounded men lay alongside each other on examining tables in the armory’s infirmary
    as Bourne stood across the room, leaning against the wall, watching but not understanding what
    was being saidThree doctors had been dispatched by helicopter from the roof of the People’s
    Hospital on the Serova Prospekt—two surgeons and an anesthesiologist, the last, however, proving
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    the cleansing and suturing, followed by generous injections of antibioticsThe foreign objects had
    passed through their bodies, explained the chief doctor
    “I presume you mean bullets when you speak so reverently of ‘foreign objects,’ ” said Krupkin
    in high dudgeon
    “He means bullets,” confirmed Alex hoarsely in RussianThe retired CIA station chief was
    unable to move his head because of his bandaged throatWide adhesive straps extended down
    across his collarbone and upper right shoulder
    “Thank you,” said the surgeon“You were both fortunate, especially you, our American patient
    for whom we must compile confidential medical recordsIncidentally, give our people the name
    and address of your physician in the United StatesYou’ll need attention for some weeks ahead
    “Right now he’s in a hospital in Paris
    “I beg your pardon?”
    “Well, whenever something’s wrong with me, I tell him and he sends me to the doctor he thinks
    I should see
    “That’s not exactly socialized medicineI’ll give his name and address to a nurseWith luck he’ll be back soon
    “I repeat, you were very fortunate
    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
    404
    “I was very fast, Doctor, and so was your comradeWe saw that son of a bitch running out
    toward us, so we locked the doors and kept moving in the seats and firing at him as he tried to get
    close enough to put us away, which he damn near didI’m sorry about the driver; he was a brave
    young
    Saturday, December 25th, 2010
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    tumbles from his fingers
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    with a T
    The rip! the girl with the T on her jumper calls,
    holding out her arms in supplication
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    slightest danger of drowning, Emery doesn't
    hesitateHis joy won't let him hesitate, nor his
    bright certainty that this is a miracle
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    previously distant father-in-law will change his
    tune in a hurryAnd the silver chimes those
    voices ring in his head, they urge him forward,
    tooHe rushes to rescue Adie's sisters, to gather
    the lost girls in and splash with them to shore
    Emery! That's Tessie, her eyes dark in her chinapale
    face
    Emery, hurry! That's Laura, with her dripping
    white hands held out to him and her lank omega moon watch curls
    pasted against her white cheeks
    He cries I'm coming, girls! Hold on!
    Splashing toward them, now up to his shins, now
    his knees
    He cries Fight it! as though they are doing
    anything but standing there in water that is only
    thigh-deep on them, although he's now up to his
    own thighs and he's six feet and two inches tall
    The water of the Gulf - still chilly in mid-April
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    undertow turning first to yells of protest and
    then to screams of horror, but by then it is far
    too lateThe screams do not last long, in any
    caseTheir small hands have become cold claws
    digging deep into his flesh as they pull him
    deeper, and the water fills his mouth, drowning
    his screamsHe sees the ship against the last
    cold ashes of the sunset, and - how did he not purse louis vuitton see
    it before? how did he not know? - realizes it is a
    hulk, a plague ship, a deathshipSomething is
    waiting for him there, something in a shroud, and
    he would scream if he could, but now the water
    fills his eyes and there are other hands, ones
    that feel like nothing but stripped radiations of
    bone, closing around his anklesA talon pulls off
    a shoe, then tweaks a toeas if it means to
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    2:26 am
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    @@@@@I put
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    639
    "She had a clear patch late this afternoon, Edgar!
    It might not mean anything - I'm trying to keep my
    hopes low - but I've seen this beforeFirst one
    clear interval, then another, then another, then
    they start to merge together and she's herself
    again, at least for awhile
    "She knows who she is? Where she is?"
    "Not now, but for half an hour or so, starting
    around five-thirty, she knew that stuff and who I
    was, tooListen, muchacho - she lit her own damn
    cigarette!"
    "I'll be sure to tell the Surgeon General," I said,
    but I was thinkingRight around the
    time Jack and I had been waiting for the
    drawbridgeAround the time I'd felt that urge to
    draw
    "Did she want anything besides a cigarette?"
    "She asked for foodBut before that, she asked to
    go to the China VillageShe wanted her chinas,
    Edgar! Do you know how long it's been?"
    I did, actuallyAnd it was good to hear him
    excited on her behalf
    "She started to fade after I got her there, though
    She looked around and asked me where Percy was
    640
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    in the cookie-tin
    I looked at my paintingIt was mine
    now, all rightI licked my lips, which
    suddenly felt leatheryThe way they always had
    when I first woke up after the accidentWhen some
    of the time I couldn't remember who I wasDo you
    know what's queer? Remembering forgettingIt's
    like looking into a hall of mirrors"Which one is
    Percy?"
    "Damned if I knowWhen she wants me to throw the
    cookie-tin in the goldfish pond, she always
    insists on putting a girl china in itUsually the
    shepherdess with her face chipped off
    Friday, December 24th, 2010
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    belonged to her; and that, had she received even the greatest, she
    could never have been easy in joining a scheme which, considering
    only her uncle, she must condemn altogether
    Fanny’s heart was not absolutely the only saddened one amongst
    them, as she soon began to acknowledge to herselfJulia was a
    sufferer too, though not quite so blamelessly
    Henry Crawford had trifled with her feelings; but she had very long
    allowed and even sought his attentions, with a jealousy of her sister so
    reasonable as ought to have been their cure; and now dior handbags that the conviction
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    to it without any alarm for Maria’s situation, or any endeavour at
    rational tranquillity for herselfShe either sat in gloomy silence, wrapt
    in such gravity as nothing could subdue, no curiosity touch, no wit
    amuse; or allowing the attentions of MrYates, was talking with forced
    gaiety to him alone, and ridiculing the acting of the others
    For a day or two after the affront was given, Henry Crawford had
    endeavoured to do it away by the usual attack of gallantry and compliment,
    but he had not cared enough about it to persevere against
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    time for more than one flirtation, he grew indifferent to the quarrel,
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    what might ere long have raised expectations in more than MrsShe was not pleased to see Julia excluded from the play, and
    sitting by disregarded; but as it was not a matter which really involved
    her happiness, as Henry must be the best judge of his own,
    and as he did assure her, with a most persuasive smile, that neither
    he nor Julia had ever had a serious thought of each other, she could
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    take her share in anything that brought cheerfulness to the young
    people in general, and that did so particularly promote the pleasure
    of the two so dear to her
    “I rather wonder Julia is not in love with Henry,” was her observation
    to Mary
    “I dare say she is,” replied Mary coldly“I imagine both sisters are
    141
    Jane Austen
    “Both! no, no, that must not beDo not give him a hint of itRushworth!”
    “You had better tell Miss Bertram to think of MrIt
    may do her some goodRushworth’s property
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    of himA man might represent the county with such an estate; a
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    I dare say he will be in for some borough, but there has been nobody
    to put him in the way of doing anything yet
    “Sir Thomas is to achieve many mighty things when he comes
    home,” said Mary, after a pause“Do you remember Hawkins
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    To Templars modesty, to Parsons sense
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