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    Monday, January 3rd, 2011
    4:10 pm
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    “He can cut you off, and I can’t do anything about itIf you need something in a hurry, he won’t
    deliver
    “Bernardine’s offered to help‘Whatever you need,’ those were his words
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    restricted
    “Did you tell Holland I’m writing down everything I know, every statement that was made to
    me, every answer to every question I asked?”
    “Are you?”
    “I willHe wants to question you; he says he can’t question pages of paper
    “I’m too close to the Jackal! I won’t do itHe’s an unreasonable son of a bitch!”
    “I think he wanted to be reasonable,” said balenciaga city Conklin“He knows what you’re going through, what
    you’ve been through, but after seven o’clock last night he closed the doors
    “Why?”
    “Armbruster was shot to death outside his houseThey’re calling it a Georgetown robbery,
    which, of course, it isn’t and wasn’t
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    “Oh, Jesus!”
    “There are a couple of other things you ought to knowTo begin with, we’re watch omega releasing Swayne’s
    ‘suicide ”
    “For God’s sake, why?”
    “To let whoever killed him think he’s off the hook, and, more important, to see who shows up
    during the next week or so
    “At the funeral?”
    “No, that’s a ‘closed family affair,’ no guests, no formal ceremony
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    “At the estate, in one form or anotherWe checked with Swayne’s attorney, very officially, of
    course, fake prada and he confirmed what Swayne’s wife told you about his leaving the whole place to a
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    “Which one?” asked Bourne
    “One you’ve never heard of, funded privately a few years ago by wealthy close friends of the
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    Sunday, January 2nd, 2011
    4:14 pm
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    old to deserve one more with the family she'd
    grown up withAnd that went for Lin, tooHer
    survival skills were better, but she was flying
    home from France yet again, and that told me
    somethingI'd go, I'd make nice, and I
    would be sure to pack Reba, just in case one of my
    rages swept over meThey were abating, but of
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    rage against except for my periodic forgetfulness
    and shitty limpI called the charter service I'd
    used for the last fifteen years and confirmed a
    Learjet, Sarasota to MSP International, leaving at
    nine o'clock AM on the twenty-fourth of December
    I called Jack, who said he'd be happy to drive me
    to Dolphin Aviation and pick me up again on the
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    ducks in a row, Pam called to tell me the whole
    thing was off
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    Pam's father was a retired MarineHe and his wife
    had relocated to Palm Desert, California, in the
    last year of the twentieth century, settling in
    one of those gated communities where there's one
    token African-American couple and four token
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    shitPam's father had been diagnosed with rectal
    cancerIt didn't surprise mePut a bunch of
    white assholes together and you're going to find
    that going around
    I did not say this to my wife, who started off
    strong and then broke down in tears"He's started
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    metasoh, whatever that fucking word
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    is, I sound like you!" And then, still sniffing
    but sounding shocked and humbled: "I'm sorry,
    Eddie, that was terrible
    "No, it wasn't," I said"It wasn't terrible at
    allAnd the word is metastasizedAnyway, they're doing the surgery
    to take out the main tumor tonight She was
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    Saturday, January 1st, 2011
    4:15 pm
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    It took him another momentIf you or I had walked in on a human vivisection, with torn body parts, with blood
    splattered on everything, it wouldn't have been as bad for us as it was for herWe'd have seen it
    all before–even before the invasion, in horror movies, at leastI'd bet she's never been exposed
    to anything like that in all her lives
    I was getting sick againHis words were bringing it back
    “Let me go,” I whispered
    “I didn't mean to wake you The last words were fervent, apologizing for more than
    waking meI'll take you to your room
    “Wanda –”
    “Now!” I shoutedI shoved against Ian's chest, kicking my legs free at the same timeThe
    ferocity of my struggle surprised himHe lost his hold on me, and I half fell into a crouch on the
    floor
    I sprang up from the crouch running
    “Wanda!”
    “Let her go
    “Don't touch me! Wanda, come back!”
    It sounded like they were wrestling behind me, but I didn't slowOf course they were fightingViolence was pleasure to them
    I didn't pause when I was back in the lightI sprinted through the big cavern without looking at
    any of the monsters thereI could feel their eyes on me, and I didn't care
    I didn't care where I was going, eitherJust somewhere I could be aloneI avoided the tunnels
    that had people near them, running down the first empty one I could fi
    Friday, December 31st, 2010
    4:18 pm
    @@@@@He wants to ask her why she never eats with
    @@@@@He wants to ask her why she never eats with him at night, but always serves him first; he wants to tell her that he doesn't like to be asked where he is going
    You're not going to be at a CU meeting, are ya? she asks
    What do you care? (Why don't you ever put a dress over that slip?)
    Roy, you're going to get in trouble there, I don't like those men, you're only going to hurt yourself at the club, you know now the war's on they have nothing to do with them
    There's nothing wrong with the CULeave me alone, goddammit
    He slams the door, and walks into the nightIt is snowing a little, and at the street corners his shoes crunch icily through the slushHe sneezes once or twiceA man's gotta get out and have someY'get some ideals to fight for in the organization and a woman wants to stop yaI'm gonna be up there someday
    In the meeting hall, the air is hot and metallic from the heaters, and the smell of wet clothing is sourHe grits a cigarette butt into powder with his foot
    All right, we're in a war, men, the speaker says, we gotta fight for the country, but we don't want to be forgettin' our private enemiesHe pounds the speaker's table over which a flag with a cross is spreadThere's the foreign element we got to get rid of, that are conspiring to take over the countryThere are cheers from the hundred men seated in camp chairsWe gotta stick together, or we'll be havin' our women raped, and the Red Hammer of Red Jew Fascist Russia WILL BE SMASHING YOUR DOOR DOWN
    That's tellin' him, the man next to Gallagher saysGallagher feels a pleasurable fury forming in him
    Who takes away your jobs, who tries to sneak up on your wives and your daughters and even your mothers 'cause they wouldn't stop at nothing, who's out to get YOU and YOU 'cause you ain't a Red and a Jew, and you don' wanta bow down before a filthy goddam no-good Communist who don't respect the Lord's name, and would stop at nothing
    Let's kill them! Gallagher shrieksHe is shaking with excitement
    That's it, men, we're gonna clean up on 'em, after the war we're really gonna have an organization, I got telegrams here from our com-pat-riots, patriots as well as friends, and they're all stickin' with us
    You're all in on the ground floor, men, and those of ya that are goin' into the Army gotta learn to use your weapons so that afterw
    Thursday, December 30th, 2010
    4:10 pm
    @@@@@ "Come have some tea, you looked chilled to
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    "Come have some tea, you looked chilled to the bone Anne smiled
    gratefully"The wind is picking up, and the clouds are coming in
    fastI believe I beat the rain by only a few steps Good
    afternoon, Miss Emma, Miss Sally, Margaret, MrCooperShe stopped,
    her
    lips parted, her eyes on ScarlettI don't think
    we've met Eleanor Butler hurried to the girl's
    sideShe was holding a steaming cup
    "How barbaric of me," she exclaimed"I was so busy with the tea that
    I forgot that of course you don't know Scarlett, my daughter-in-law
    Here, Anne, drink this at onceYou're white as a ghost Scarlett,
    Anne is our expert on the Confederate HomeShe graduated from the
    school last year, and now she's teaching there
    Anne Hampton-Scarlett Butler
    "How do you do, Mrs Anne extended a cold little hand
    Scarlett felt it quiver in her own warm one when she shook it"Please
    call me Scarlett," she said
    "Tea, Scarlett?"
    "Thank you, Miss Eleanor She hurried to take the cup, glad to
    escape
    from the confusion she felt when she looked at Anne HamptonShe's
    Melly to the lifeJust as frail, just as mousy, just as sweet-I can
    tell that alreadyShe must be an orphan if she's at that Home
    plac
    Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
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    walking at least half the distance to the Bronx, I was picked up by the only person I know who may
    have more loose bananas in her head than I doHer libido is unhinged and she’s running away from
    her trucker husband—hot on her French heels—who I subsequently learned has the chanel white j12 watch cuddly name of
    the BronkMy hooker chauffeur proceeds to hold me hostage with such wiles as threatening to yell
    ‘Rape!’ in a diner filled with a collection of the NFL’s most carnivorous linebackers—except for
    one who got me out Panov abruptly stopped and reached into his pocket“Here,” he continued,
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    “What’s this?” asked the bewildered Alex
    “I robbed a bank and decided to become a professional driver! What do you think it is? I took
    it from the man who was guarding meI described as best I could to the chopper’s crew where the
    crash took placeThey’re flying back to find himThey will; he’s not walking anywhere
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    “Go on? What’s to go on to? I was kidnapped and held in some farmhouse and injected with
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    “What the hell are you talking about?” said Holland flatly“Nothing, Admiral, or MrDirector
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    Monday, December 27th, 2010
    4:13 pm
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    "Is she the lady you come out with in the mornings?
    The one in the wheelchair?"
    "Indeed she is
    And without thinking much about what I was saying
    - it was her enormous blue sneakers propped up on
    the chrome footrests of her wheelchair I was
    thinking about - I said: "The Bride of the
    Godfather
    Wireman gaped, those green eyes of his so wide I
    was about to apologize for my faux pasThen he
    really began to laughIt was the kind of ballsto-
    the-wall bellowing you give out on those rare
    occasions when something sneaks past all your
    defenses and gets to the sweet spot of your
    funnyboneI mean the man was busting a gut, and
    when he saw I didn't have the slightest idea what
    had gotten him, he laughed even harder, his not
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    inconsiderable belly heavingHe tried to put his
    glass back on the little table and missedThe
    glass plummeted straight down to the sand and
    stuck there, perfectly upright, like a cigarettebutt
    in one of those urns of sand you used to see
    beside the elevators in hotel lobbiesThat struck
    him even funnier, and he pointed at it
    "I couldn't have done that if I was trying!" he
    managed, and then was off again, gale upon gale,
    heaving in his chair, one hand clutching his
    stomach, the other planted on his chestA snatch
    of poetry read in high school, over thirty years
    before, suddenly came back to me with haunting
    clarity: Men do not sham convulsion, Nor simulate
    a throe
    I was smiling myself, smiling and chuckling,
    because that kind of high hilarity is catching,
    even when you don't know what the joke isAnd the
    glass falling that way, with every drop of
    Wireman's tea staying inside
    Like a gag in a Road Runner cartoonBut the
    plummeting glass hadn't been the source of
    Wireman's hilarityI mean I'm sorry if I-"
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    "She sort of is!" Wireman cried, cackling so
    crazily he was almost incoherent"She sort of is,
    that's the thing! Only it's daughter, of course,
    she's The Daughter of the Godfa-"
    But he had been rocking from side to side as well
    as up and down - no sham, authentic throe - and
    that was when his beach chair finally gave up the
    ghost with a loud crrrack, first snapping him
    forward with an extremely comical look of surprise
    on his face and then spilling him onto the sand
    One of his flailing arms caught the post of the
    umbrella and upended the tableA gust of wind
    caught the umbrella, puffed it like a sail, and
    began to drag the table down the beachWhat got
    me laughing wasn't the bug-eyed look of amazement
    on Wireman's face when his disintegrating beach
    chair tried to clamp on him like a striped jaw,
    nor his sudden barrel-roll onto the sandIt
    wasn't even the sight of that table trying to
    escape, tugged by its own umbrellaIt was
    Wireman's glass, still standing placidly upright
    between the sprawling man's side and left arm
    Acme Iced Tea Company, I thought, still stuck on
    those old Road Runner cartoonsMeep-meep! And
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    that, of course, made me think of the crane that
    had done the damage, the one with the fucked-up
    beeper that hadn't beeped, and all at once I saw
    myself as Wile ECoyote in the cab of my
    disintegrating pickup truck, eyes bugged in
    bewilderment, frazzled ears sticking off in two
    opposite directions and maybe smoking a little at
    the tip
    Sunday, December 26th, 2010
    4:18 pm
    @@@@@You don't know what these foreign substances
    @@@@@You don't know what these foreign substances will do to him!”
    “He can't get much worse, can he?”
    “Doc,” I said
    Doc wasn't the only one who responded to my wordsJeb, Ian, and even Maggie looked and
    then did a double takeMaggie glanced away quickly, angry that she'd betrayed any interestJamie doesn't need to suffer
    Doc hesitated, staring at my face, and then let out a big sigh“Ian's right–he can't get much
    worseIf this kills him…” He shrugged, and his shoulders slumped
    No one paid any attention to her
    I knelt beside Jamie, yanking the backpack off my shoulders and tugging it openI fumbled
    until I found the No PainA bright light switched on beside me, pointed at Jamie's face
    “Water, Ian?”
    I twisted the lid open and pinched out one of the little tissue squaresWhen I pulled Jamie's
    chin down, his skin burned my handI laid the square on his tongue and then held out my hand
    without looking upIan placed the bowl of water in it
    Carefully, I dripped enough water into his mouth to wash the medicine down his throatThe
    sound of his swallow was dry and painful
    I searched frantically for the thinner spray bottleWhen I found it, I had the lid off and the mist
    sprayed into the air above him in one fast movementI waited, watching his chest until he
    inhaled
    I touched his face, and it was so hot! I scrambled for the Cool, praying it would be easy to use
    The lid screwed off, and I found that the cylinder was full of more tissue squares, light blue this
    timeI breathed a sigh of relief and placed one on Jamie's tongueI picked up the bowl again
    and dribbled another mouthful of water through his parched lips
    Saturday, December 25th, 2010
    4:18 pm
    @@@@@Nothing seemed to move in all the cramped
    @@@@@Nothing seemed to move in all the cramped choked spaces of the jungle, and it developed an attitude in which no one expected anything to moveThe division was going subtly and inevitably to pot, and he felt powerless to alter it

    Hearn suffered the results in all their immediacyWithout the disturbing and fascinating intimacy the General had granted him in his first weeks as an aide, the job had become reduced quickly to its onerous humiliating routineA change had come about in their relationship, quietly achieved, but its end product left him in a formal and obviously subordinate statusThe General no longer confided in him, no longer lectured him, and the duties of his job, which had been treated between them until now as a tacit joke, had become demanding and loathsomeAs the campaign floundered along day after day, the General became stricter about the discipline in his headquarters, and Hearn suffered the brunt of itEach morning Cummings made a point of inspecting his tent, and almost every time he delivered a criticism of the way Hearn had supervised the orderlyIt was always a quiet rebuke, uttered slyly, with a sidewise glance at Hearn, but it was disturbing and finally harassing
    And there were other tasks, silly pointless ones which assumed a galling character after they had continued long enoughOne time, almost two weeks after they had had their last long conversation on the night of the chess game, the General had stared at him blankly for a few seconds, and then had said, "Hearn, I think I'd like to have some fresh flowers in my tent each morning
    "Fresh flowers, sir?"
    And the General had given his mocking grin"Yes, it seems to me there're enough of them in the jungleSuppose you just tell Clellan to collect a few each morningGood God, man, it's a simple enough affair
    Simple enough, but it added a further tension between Clellan and himself, which Hearn detestedDespite himself, he paid greater attention to the way Clellan made up the General's tent each morning, and it became a humiliating duel between themTo his own surprise, Hearn discovered that the General was making him vulnerable; he was beginning to care that the tent was made up correctlyEach morning now he approached the General's tent with distaste, figuratively squared his shoulders, and then went in to continue his feud with Clellan
    Clellan had started itA tall slim Southerner with a complete and insolent poise, a facility for never questioning himself, he had resented any of Hearn's suggestions from the very beginningHearn had ignored him at first, amused a little by the proprietary concern with which Clellan regarded his work, but Hearn knew by now that he was contributing a little to the feud himself
    One morning they almost quarreledHearn entered the tent as Clellan was finishing his work, and he examined it while Clellan stood at the General's cot, his hands by his sidesHearn prodded the bed, which was made very neatly, the extra blanket folded squarely at the foot, the pillow centered at the head with its ends tucked
    Friday, December 24th, 2010
    4:10 pm
    @@@@@But her pride would never be healed from
    @@@@@But her
    pride
    would never be healed from the sickness she feltEleanor leaned over
    her, tried to put her arms around her, but Scarlett shrank from her
    touch
    "Leave me alone!" she tried to shout, but it came out a moan"I
    won't," said MrsButler, "not until you listen to meYou've got to
    understand, Scarlett, you have to hear meThere's so much you don't
    knowAre you listening?" She drew a chair close to Scarlett's, sat
    in it, only inches away Scarlett put her hands over
    her ears"I won't leave you," said Eleanor
    "And I'll tell you-again and again, a thousand times if need be-until
    you hear me Her voice went on and on, gentle but insistent,
    while her hand stroked Scarlett's bent head-comforting, caring,
    insinuating her kindness and her love through Scarlett's refusal to
    hear her"What Ross did was unpardonable," she said, "I don't ask
    you
    to forgive himHe is my son, and I know the
    pain in him that made him do itHe wasn't trying to hurt you, my
    dearIt was Rhett he was attacking through you; he knows, you see,
    that Rhett is too strong for him, that he'll never be able to match Rhett
    in anythingRhett reaches out and takes what he wants, he makes
    things
    happen, he gets things doneAnd poor Ross is a failure at
    everything
    "Margaret told me privately this afternoon that when Ross went to
    work
    this morning, they told him he was firedBecause of hisdrinking, you
    seeHe always drank, men always do, but not the way he's been
    drinking since Rhett came back to Charleston a year agoRoss was
    trying to make the plantation go, he's been slaving away at it ever
    since he came back from the War, but something always went wrong,
    and
    he never did get a decent rice cropEverything was about to be sold
    up for taxes
    So when Rhett offered to buy the plantation from him, Ross had to let
    it
    goIt would have been Rhett's anyhow, except that he and his
    father-but that's another sto
    Thursday, December 23rd, 2010
    4:08 pm
    @@@@@ “How long has it been since you rendered
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    “How long has it been since you rendered me unconscious?”
    Jason looked at his watch, now easily seen in the bright morning sunlight“Something over an
    hour-plus, I think; perhaps an hour and a halfConsidering how you were dressed, the taxi driver
    cruised around trying to find a place to park where we could help you to a bench on the path with
    as little scrutiny as possibleHe was well paid for his assistance
    “An hour and a half?” asked Lavier pointedly
    “So?”
    “So why didn’t I call the bakery or the H?tel Trémoille?”
    “Complications? No, too easily verified,” added Bourne, shaking his head
    “Or?” Lavier locked her large green eyes with his“Or, monsieur?”
    “The boulevard Lefebvre,” replied Jason slowly, softlyAs I reversed his on me, he
    reversed mine for him three hours laterThen I broke the strategy and took you The once and former whore of Monte Carlo nodded“And he cannot know what
    transpired between us therefore, I’m marked for executionA pawn is removed, for she is merely
    a pawnShe can tell the authorities nothing of substance; she’s never seen the Jackal; she can only
    repeat the gossip of lowly subordinates
    “You’ve never seen him?”
    “I may have, but not to my knowledgeAgain, the rumors fly around ParisThis one with
    swarthy Latin skin, or that one with black eyes and a dark mustache; ‘He is really Carlos, you
    know’—how often have I heard the phrases! But no, no man has ever come up to me and said, ‘I
    am he and I make your life pleasant, you aging elegant prostitute I simply report to old men who
    every now and then convey information that I must have—such as this evening on the boulevard
    Lefebvre Bourne got to his feet, stretching his body and looking down at his prisoner on the
    bench“I can get you out,” he said quietly“Out of Paris, out of EuropeBeyond Carlos’s reachDo
    you want that?”
    “As eagerly as Santos did,” answered Lavier, her eyes implor
    Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010
    4:20 pm
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    "You have to call the girls, because they're going
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    "What, hon?" I'm sure she said it without thinking,
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    A cheery voice I'd come to know well over the last
    ten days
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    "Yes, Edgar, we certainly could The relief was
    palpableIt made me feel like a heroOf course
    it also made me feel like a rat
    "Have you got a pad handy?"
    "You bet your tailfeathers!"
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    chronological order-"
    "But I don't know the chronology, I've been trying
    to chanel top tell you th-"
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    listen, Alice: the first slide won't be
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    from ShellsHave you got that?"
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    Miss Crawford soon felt that he and his situation might doShe
    looked about her with due consideration, and found almost everything
    in his favour: a park, a real park, five miles round, a spacious
    modern-built house, so well placed and well screened as to deserve
    to be in any collection of engravings of gentlemen’s seats in the
    kingdom, and wanting only to be completely new furnished—pleasant
    sisters, a quiet prada logo mother, and an agreeable man himself—with the
    advantage of being tied up from much gaming at present by a promise
    to his father, and of being Sir Thomas hereafterIt might do very
    well; she believed she should accept him; and she began accordingly
    to interest herself a little about the horse which he had to run at the
    B——— races
    These races were to call him away not long after their acquaintance
    began; and as it appeared that the family did not, from his
    usual goings on, expect him back again for many weeks, it would
    bring his passion to an early proofMuch was said on his side to
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    induce her to attend the races, and schemes were made for a large
    party to chloe bag them, with all the eagerness of inclination, but it would
    only do to be talked of
    And Fanny, what was she doing and thinking all this while? and
    what was her opinion of the newcomers? Few young ladies of eighteen
    could be less called on to speak their opinion than FannyIn a
    quiet way, very little attended to, she paid her tribute of admiration
    to Miss Crawford’s beauty; but as she still continued to think Mr
    Crawford very plain, in spite of her two cousins having repeatedly
    proved the contrary, she never mentioned himThe notice, which
    she excited herself, was to this effect“I begin now to understand
    you all, except Miss Price,” said Miss Crawford, as she was walking
    with the gucci ladies watch
    Saturday, December 18th, 2010
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    Friday, December 17th, 2010
    4:15 pm
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    @@@@@All of us, that's what she wanted from all three 'of usScarlett recoiled from what was in her headShe'd always
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    she was unprepared to shut it outIt returned in different guises,
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    even always the best way to beNot if it doesn't make you happy
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    happy, tooShe was kind and
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    way I feel now, I wish you could have been happyWhat was it
    Grandfather had said? That his daughter Ellen had married Gerald O
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    was
    never happy? Was she pining over someone she couldn't have the
    way I
    pined over Ashley? The way I pine now over Rhett when I can't help
    it
    What a waste! What a horrible, senseless wasteWhen happiness
    was so
    wonderful, how could anyone cling to a love that made them unhappy?
    Scarlett vowed that she wouldn't do itShe knew what it was to be
    happy, and she would not ruin itShe caught her sleeping baby up in
    her arms and hugged herCat woke and waved her helpless hands in
    protest"Oh, Kitty Cat, I'm sorryI just had to hug you some
    They were all wrong! The idea was so explosive that it woke Scarlett
    from a sound sleepThey were wrong! All of them-the people who
    cut
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    everybody in Charlest
    Saturday, December 11th, 2010
    4:43 pm
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    way to get home!
    Home?she questioned, throwing cheerless images at me: the vacant apartment in San Diego,
    the Seeker's most obnoxious expression, the dot that marked Tucson on the map… a brief,
    happier flash of the red canyon that slipped in by accidenthere would that be?
    I turned my back on the car, ignoring her adviceI was in too far alreadyI wasn't going to give
    up all hope of returnMaybe someone would find the car and then find meI could easily and
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    in this empty place–that had made it impossible to resist this senseless plan
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    We flinched together at the thought
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    What? Die myself? Than give a few stray humans up to the Seekers?
    Again we flinched at the thought, but my revulsion at the idea comforted herAnd it frightened
    me more than it soothed her
    When the wash started angling too far toward the north, Melanie suggested that we forget the
    flat, ashen path and take the direct line to the third landmark, the eastern spur of rock that
    seemed to point, fingerlike, toward the cloudless sky
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    way back to the road, and the road back to the highwayIt was miles and miles, and it would
    take me days to traverse, but once I stepped off this wash I was officially adr
    Friday, December 10th, 2010
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    the crease between my torso and my bellyShe was
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    black - but I'm almost positive it was
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    the sound of grunting cries from my friends and
    the angry, unearthly laughter of two long-dead
    children
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    shrieks of surprised horrorHe
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    never so glad to hear anyone in my life
    "That's right, go on and run! Before your fucking
    ship sails and leaves you behind!"
    Now I had a delicate problemI had taken hold of
    the flashlight in my remaining hand, and she was
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    Tuesday, December 7th, 2010
    4:19 pm
    @@@@@Mary, she is not like her cousins; but I
    @@@@@Mary, she is not like
    her cousins; but I think I shall not ask in vainWere you even less pleasing—supposing her
    not to love you already (of which, however, I can have little doubt)—
    you would be safeThe gentleness and gratitude of her disposition
    would secure her all your own immediatelyFrom my soul I do not
    think she would marry you without love; that is, if there is a girl in
    the world capable of being uninfluenced by ambition, I can suppose
    it her; but ask her to love you, and she will never have the heart
    to refuse
    As soon as her eagerness could rest in silence, he was as happy to
    tell as she could be to listen; and a conversation followed almost as
    deeply interesting to her as to himself, though he had in fact nothing
    to relate but his own sensations, nothing to dwell on but Fanny’s
    charmsFanny’s beauty of face and figure, Fanny’s graces of manner
    and goodness of heart, were the exhaustless themeThe gentleness,
    modesty, and sweetness of her character were warmly expatiated on;
    that sweetness which makes so essential a part of every woman’s
    worth in the judgment of man, that though he sometimes loves
    where it is not, he can never believe it absentHer temper he had
    good reason to depend on and to praiseHe had often seen it tried
    Was there one of the family, excepting Edmund, who had not in
    some way or other continually exercised her patience and forbearance?
    Her affections were evidently strongTo see her with her
    brother! What could more delightfully prove that the warmth of
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    Mansfield Park
    her heart was equal to its gentleness? What could be more encouraging
    to a man who had her love in view? Then, her understanding
    was beyond every suspicion, quick and clear; and her manners were
    the mirror of her own modest and elegant mind
    Henry Crawford had too much sense not to feel the worth of good
    principles in a wife, though he was too little accustomed to serious
    reflection to know them by their proper name; but when he talked
    of her having such a steadiness and regularity of conduct, such a
    high notion of honour, and such an observance of decorum as might
    warrant any man in the fullest dependence on her faith and integrity,
    he expressed what was inspired by the knowledge of her being
    well principled and religious
    “I could so wholly and absolutely confide in her,” said he; “and
    that is what I want
    Well might his sister, believing as she really did that his opinion of
    Fanny Price was scarcely beyond her merits, rejoice in her prospects
    “The more I think of it,” she cried, “the more am I convinced that
    you are doing quite right; and though I should never have selected
    Fanny Price as the girl most likely to attach you, I am now persuaded
    she is the very one to make you happyYour wicked project
    upon her peace turns out a clever thought indeedYou will both
    find your good in it
    “It was bad, very bad in me against such a creature; but I did not
    know her then; and she shall have no reason to lament the hour that
    first put it into my headI will make her very happy, Mary; happier
    than she has ever yet been herself, or ever seen anybody elseI will
    not take her from NorthamptonshireI shall let Everingham, and
    rent a place in this neighbourhood; perhaps Stanwix LodgeI shall
    let a seven years’ lease of EveringhamI am sure of an excellent
    tenant at half a wordI could name three people now, who would
    give me my own terms and thank me
    “Ha!” cried Mary; “settle in Northamptonshire! That is pleasant!
    Then we shall be all toget
    Monday, December 6th, 2010
    4:33 pm
    @@@@@He looked at the general’s wife and then
    @@@@@He looked at the general’s wife and then back at Jason“Listen,
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    left for us over here—so what have you got to offer?”
    “For what?”
    “Say we tell you what we know about this place and I tell you where you can start looking for
    a lot moreHow can you help us? How can we get out of here and back to the Pac Islands without
    being hassled, our names and faces all over the papers?”
    “That’s a tall order, Sergeant
    “Goddamn it, she didn’t kill him—we didn’t kill him, you said so yourself!”
    “Agreed, and I couldn’t care less whether you did or not, whether you were responsible or not
    I’ve got other priorities
    “Like getting ‘caught up with some old comrades’ or whatever the hell it was?”
    “That’s right, I’m owed
    “I still can’t figure you—”
    “You don’t have to
    “You were dead!” broke in the perplexed Flannagan, the words rushing out“Delta One from the
    illegals was Bourne, and Bourne was dead and Langley proved it to us! But you’re not dead—”
    “I was taken, Sergeant! That’s all you have to know—that and the fact that I’m working alone
    I’ve got a few debts I can call in, but I’m strictly soloI need information and I need it quickly!”
    Flannagan shook his head in bewildermentmaybe I can help you there,” he said
    quietly, tentatively, “better than anyone else wouldI was given a special assignment, so I had to
    learn things, things someone like me wouldn’t normally be told
    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
    103
    “That sounds like the opening notes of a con song, SergeantWhat was your special
    assignment?”
    “NursemaidTwo years ago Norman began to fall apartI controlled him, and if I couldn’t I was
    given a number to call in New York
    “Said number being part of the help you can give me
    “That and a few license-plate ID’s I wrote down just in case—”
    “In case,” completed Bourne, “someone decided your nursemaid’s services were no longer
    required
    “Something like thatThose pricks never liked us—Norman didn’t see it but I did
    “Us? You and Rachel and Swayne?”
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    they’re right about the necessa
    Saturday, December 4th, 2010
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