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    Monday, January 3rd, 2011
    9:06 am
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    I'll write a nice fat bank draft after breakfast, she thought
    "These are the best biscuits I ever tasted," Scarlett said"Could I
    have another?" She was beginning to feel much better with a good
    sleep
    behind her, a good meal in her stomach, and the children taken care
    of
    She knew she should go back to Atlanta-she still had to do something
    about BeauAshley, too; she'd promised Melanie
    But she'd think about that laterShe'd come to Tara for country peace
    and quiet, she was determined to have some before she left
    After breakfast Suellen went out to the kitchenProbably to complain
    about something, Scarlett thought uncharitably
    It gave her a chance to be alone and peaceful The house is so
    quietThe children must be having their breakfast in the kitchen, and
    of course Will's long gone to the fields with Wade dogging his
    footsteps, just the way he used to when Will first came to Tara
    Wade'll be much happier here than in Atlanta, especially with Rhett
    gone- No, I won't think about that now, I'll go crazy if I doI'll
    just enjoy the peace and quiet, it's what I came forShe poured
    herself another cup of coffee, not caring that it was only lukewarm
    Sunlight through the window behind her illuminated the painting on
    the
    wall opposite, above the scarred sideboardWill had done a grand job
    repairing the furniture that the Yankee soldiers had broken up, but
    even he couldn't remove the deep gouges they'd made with their
    swords
    Or the bayonet wound in Grandma Robillard's portraitWhatever
    soldier
    had stabbed her must have been drunk, Scarlett figured, because he'd
    missed both the arrogant almost-sneer on Grandma's thin-nosed face
    and
    the bosoms that rounded up over her low cut gownAll he'd done was
    jab through her left earring, and now she looked even more interesting
    wearing just oneHer mother's mother was the only ancestor who
    really
    interested Scarlett, and it frustrated her that nobody would ever tell
    her enough about her grandmotherMarried three times, she had
    learned
    that much from her mother, but no detailsAnd Mammy always cut
    off
    tales of life in Savannah just when they started getting interesting
    There had been duels fought over Grandma, and the fashions of her
    day
    had been scandalous, with ladies deliberately wetting their thin muslin
    gowns so that they'd cling to their legs
    And the rest of them, too, from the look of things in the portrait
    Sunday, January 2nd, 2011
    9:06 am
    @@@@@ The Chameleon sprang up from the desk, his
    @@@@@ The Chameleon sprang up from the desk, his neck frozen
    in pain
    The steel band continued its deafening assault, but now restricted to the confines of the glassenclosed
    lobby and adjacent dining roomThe speakers on the grounds were switched off on St
    Jacques’s orders, the owner of Tranquility Inn having been escorted up from the unoccupied villa
    by the two Uzi-bearing former commandos along with the Canadian doctor and the incessantly
    chattering MrThe assistant manager was instructed to return to the front desk and say
    nothing to anyone about the things he had witnessed during the past hour
    “Absolutely nothing, sirIf I am asked, I was on the telephone with the authorities over in
    ’Serrat
    “About what?” objected St“Well, I thought—”
    “Don’t thinkYou were checking the maid service on the west path, that’s all The deflated Pritchard headed for the office door, which had been opened moments
    before by the nameless Canadian doctor
    “I doubt it would make much difference what he said,” offered the physician as the assistant
    manager left“That’s a small zoo down thereThe combination of last night’s events, too much sun
    today and excessive amounts of alcohol this evening, will augur a great deal of guilt in the
    morningMy wife doesn’t think your meteorologist will have much to say, John
    “Oh?”
    “He’s having a few himself, and even if he’s halfway lucid, there aren’t five sober enough to
    listen to him
    “I’d better get down thereWe may as well turn it into a minor carnivaleIt’ll save Scotty ten
    thousand dollars, and the more distraction we have, the betterI’ll speak to the band and the bar and
    be right back
    “We may not be here,” said Bourne as his brother-in-law left and a strapping young black
    woman in a complete nurse’s uniform walked out of StJacques’s private bathroom into the office
    At the sight of her, old Fontaine approached
    “Very good, my child, you look splendid,” said the Frenchman“Remember now, I’ll be holding
    your arm as we walk and talk, but when I squeeze you and raise my voice, telling you to leave me
    alone, you’ll do as I say, correct?”
    “Yes, s
    Saturday, January 1st, 2011
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    "I take it you didn't," I saidDaddy, would you ever hurt Mom? I mean, now?
    On purpose?"
    I shook my head, but that wasn't good enough for
    herI could tell by the way she just stood there,
    looking me in the eyeI'd-"
    "You'd what, chanel handbags sale Daddy?"
    "I was going to say I'd cut my own arm off first,
    but all at once that seemed like a really bad idea
    I'd never do it, Illy
    "Then why is she still afraid of you?"
    "I think
    She hurled herself into my arms so hard she almost
    knocked us both Gucci Clutches onto the sofa"Oh, Daddy, I'm so
    sorryAll of this is just so sucky
    I stroked her hair a little"I know, but remember
    this - it's as bad as it's going to get That
    wasn't the truth, but if I was careful, Ilse would
    never know it had been an balenciaga city outright lie
    A horn honked from the driveway
    "Go on," I said, and kissed her wet cheek"Your
    sister's impatient
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    She wrinkled her nose"So what else is new?
    You're not overdoing the pain meds, are you?"
    "No
    "Call if you need me, balenciaga handbag DaddyI'll catch the very
    next planeWhich was why I wouldn't I put a kiss on her other cheek"Give
    that to your sister
    She nodded and went outI sat down on the couch
    and closed my eyesBehind them, the clocks were
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    Friday, December 31st, 2010
    9:14 am
    @@@@@“That maybe you should make the most of
    @@@@@“That maybe you should make the
    most of what time you have? That you shouldlive while you're alive?”
    I didn't see it coming the way I had with JaredIan was not as familiar to meMelanie realized
    what he was going to do before I did, just a second before his lips touched mine
    No!
    It wasn't like kissing JaredWith Jared, there was no thought, only desireA spark
    to gasoline–inevitableWith Ian, I didn't even know what I feltEverything was muddled and
    confused
    His lips were soft and warmHe pressed them only lightly to mine, and then brushed them back
    and forth across my mouth
    “Good or bad?” he whispered against my lips
    Bad! Bad, bad!
    “I–I can't think When I moved my mouth to speak, he moved his with it
    His mouth pressed down with more force nowHe caught my lower lip between his and pulled
    on it gently
    Melanie wanted to hit him–so much more than she'd wanted to punch JaredShe wanted to
    shove him away and then kick his faceThe image was horribleIt conflicted jarringly with the
    sensation of Ian's kiss
    “Please,” I whispered
    “Yes?”
    “Please stop
    He sat back at once, clasping his hands in front of him“Okay,” he said, his tone cautious
    I pressed my hands against my face, wishing I could push out Melanie's anger
    “Well, at least nobody punched
    Thursday, December 30th, 2010
    9:06 am
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    The cave was small and the air in it was dank and oppressiveThe men were sweating heavily, and yet the air seemed coldThe bodies were heaped over the boxes like bags of flour, and when they would try to move one the maggots would scatter like a school of minnowsInside was a knock off louis vuitton disordered rubble of fragments, black charred objects, rusted scraps of metal, shell fragments, a few broken boxes of mortar shells, a few mounds of gray ash like the kind found in trash barrels; there was even just a little bit of a dead body, a charred shinbone jutting from a mound of dirt and ashThe stench had the intensity and delirium of ether
    "We ain't gonna get a goddam box," Red omega automatic seamaster saidHe was feeling sick, and his back had begun to ache inordinately from the effort it took to shift the bodies with his fingertips
    "Let's quit this mess," Gallagher saidThe sunlight at the mouth of the cave seemed astringent
    "Men, you ain't gonna quit now, are ya?" Wilson pleadedHe was determined to bring back a box
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    Monday, December 27th, 2010
    9:07 am
    @@@@@She can’t get here until tomorrow morning at
    @@@@@She can’t get here until tomorrow morning at the earliest
    “Have you heard the news?” cried St“General Teagarten was killed and they say it
    was Jason—”
    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
    205
    “Oh, shut up,” said Bourne, replacing the phone and leaving the booth, walking down the street
    to collect what thoughts he could generate
    Peter Holland, director of the Central Intelligence Agency, rose to his feet behind his desk and
    roared at the crippled man seated in front of him“Do nothing? Have you lost your fucking
    senses?”
    “Did you lose yours when you issued that statement about a joint British-American operation in
    Hong Kong?”
    “It was the goddamned truth!”
    “There are truths, and then again there are other truths, such as denying the truth when it doesn’t
    serve the service
    “Shit! Fairy politicians!”
    “I’d hardly say that, Genghis KhanI’ve heard of such men going to the wall, accepting
    execution rather than betraying the current truth they had to live byYou’re off base, Peter
    Exasperated, Holland sank back into his chair“Maybe I really don’t belong here
    “Maybe you don’t, but give yourself a little more timeMaybe you’ll become as dirty as the rest
    of us; it could happen, you know
    The director leaned back, arching his head over the chair; he spoke in a broken cadence“I was
    dirtier than any of you in the field, AlexI still wake up at night seeing the faces of young men
    staring at me as I ripped a knife up their chests, taking their lives away, somehow knowing that
    they had no idea why they were there
    “It was either you or themThey would have put a bullet in your head if they could have The DCI shot forward, his eyes locked with Conklin’s“But that’s not what
    we’re talking about, is it?”
    “You might say it’s a variation on the theme
    “It’s a musician’s term
    “Then get to the main symphonic line, AlexHe told me that he thinks he’s found a cave—his word, not
    mine—where he’s convinced he can track the JackalHe didn’t say where it is, and God knows
    when he’ll call me again
    “I sent our man at the embassy over to the Pont-Royal, asking for SimonWhat they told you is
    true
    Sunday, December 26th, 2010
    9:15 am
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    138
    "I'll bet," I said
    She kissed me again, softly, on the cheek"I'm
    glad I came, DaddyAre you glad?"
    "More than you could ever know," I said, and found
    myself wishing she'd fall madly in love with Jack
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    We had nothing so grand as Christmas dinner, but
    there was one of Jack's Astronaut Chickens, plus
    cranberry dressing, salad-in-a-bag, and rice
    puddingIlse ate two helpings of everything
    After we exchanged presents and exclaimed over
    them - everything was just what we wanted! - I
    took Ilse upstairs to Little Pink and showed her
    most of my gucci hobo horsebit artistic outputThe drawing I'd done
    of her boyfriend and the picture of the woman (if
    it was a woman) in red were tucked away on a high
    shelf in my bedroom closet, and there they would
    stay until my daughter was gone
    I had clipped about a dozen others - mostly
    sunsets - to squares of cardboard and leaned them
    139
    against the walls of the roomShe rolex watches women toured them
    onceStopped, then toured them againIt was
    night by then, my big upstairs window full of
    darknessThe tide was all the way out; the only
    way you even knew the Gulf was there was by its
    soft continual sighing as the waves ran up the
    sand and died
    "You really did these?" she said at lastShe
    turned and looked at me in a way that made ladies rolex watches me
    uncomfortableIt's the way one person looks at
    another when a serious re-evaluation is going on
    "I really did," I said"What do you think?"
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    Saturday, December 25th, 2010
    9:15 am
    @@@@@ “What are youdoing? ” Ian roared “It's
    @@@@@
    “What are youdoing? ” Ian roared
    “It's having a seizure or something, IanDoc's trying to bring it around
    My ears were ringing, but not from the slapIt was the smell–the smell of the silver blood
    dripping down the walls–the smell of the blood of soulsThe room writhed around me as
    though it were aliveThe light twisted into strange patterns, curved into the shapes of monsters
    from my pastA Vulture unfurled its wings… a claw beast swung its heavy pincers toward my
    face… Doc smiled and reached for me with silver trickling from his fingertips…
    The room spun once more, slowly, and then went black
    Unconsciousness didn't claim me for longIt must have been only seconds later when my head
    clearedI was all too lucid; I wished I could stay oblivious longer
    I was moving, rocking back and forth, and it was too black to seeMercifully, the horrible smell
    had fadedThe musty, humid air of the caves was like perfume
    The feeling of being carried, being cradled, was familiarThat first week after Kyle had injured
    me, I'd traveled many places in Ian's armsthought she'd have guessed what we were up toLooks like I was wrong,” Jared was
    murmuring
    “You think that's what happened?” Ian's voice cut hard in the quiet tunnel“That she was
    scared because Doc was trying to take the other souls out? That she was afraid for herself?”
    Jared didn't answer for a minute“You don't?”
    Ian made a sound in the back of his throatAs disgusted asI am that you would
    bring back more… victims for Doc, bring them backnow! –as much as that turns my stomach,
    that's not what upset herHow can you be so blind? Can't you imagine what that must have
    looked like to her in there?”
    “I know we had the bodies covered before –”
    “Thewrong bodies, JaredOh, I'm sure Wanda would be upset by a human corpse–she's so
    gentle; violence and death aren't a part of her normal worldBut think what the things on that
    table must have meant to
    Friday, December 24th, 2010
    9:06 am
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    "Well, now, how do you like that ol' shit?" Wilson saidHe was angry and he brooded over his answer"You're gonna write a letter for me, tonightAh'm gonna tell her that she cain't get away with none of that stuff He phrased a few sentences to himself"Ah'm tellin' ya, y' better start actin' like a decent wife, and cut out all that fussin' an' naggin' or I damn sure ain't gonna come back to ya Wilson had an obscure prejudice against using profanity in a letter"There's plenty of women would be glad to have me, an' you know itAh cain't stan' a woman who's always tryin' to take away the last cent from a manIf Ah want a little money in the Army, Ah'm gonna have itAh don' want no more talk about this "lotment Wilson felt bitter and righteous, and the act of composing had given him a heady pleasureHis mind was filled with things to tell her, and he felt a glow each time he conceived a biting phrase
    He sat on the edge of the hole at the tent entrance and squinted at the sun"Y' take that other gal," he said to Gallagher, "she's awrightAh got a letter from her Red read me last mail call we had, an' she tol' me she was jus' waitin' for me to come back to Kansas so we could git married an' then go on southUse' to cook for me, mend my clo'es, starch up my shirts for Satidday inspection, an' she gave me as good lovin' as Ah've had for a long time
    Gallagher spat with disgust and envy"What a bastard you areIf you like her so goddam much why don't you tell her you're married, and give her a break?"
    Wilson looked at him as if Gallagher were stupid"Hell, man," he protested, "why should Ah tell her? Ah never can tell how Ah'm gonna be feelin' when Ah git out of the ArmyMaybe Ah'm gonna want to go to Kansas and hook up with that other womanThere's no way of sayi
    Thursday, December 23rd, 2010
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    questionsHer aunts made the hastiest possible
    farewellsú Scarlett saw them to the door, careful to walk as if she
    had cramping in her stomachEulalie patted her shoulder
    sympathetically when she kissed her goodbye"You have yourself a
    good
    long rest, now," she saidScarlett nodded meekly
    "And come to our house in the morning at chloe bag nine-thirtyIt's a half-hour
    walk to Saint Mary's for Mass Scarlett stared, gape-mouthed with
    horrorMass had never crossed her mindAt that moment a genuine
    stab of pain made her almost double overAll afternoon she cowered
    on
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    Ellen O'Hara had been a devout Catholic, and she had done her best to
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    daughters about their duties and obligations as ChristiansThe
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    them to her family
    By the time they were twelve years old, Scarlett and her sisters had
    the imperatives of the catechism firmly implanted by their mother's
    patient teachingú Now Scarlett squirmed with guilt because she had
    neglected all religious observance for so many yearsHer mother
    must
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    in Charleston? Nobody in Atlanta had ever expected her to go to
    MassButler wouldn't have fussed at her, or at worst, she might have
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    Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010
    9:16 am
    @@@@@For reasons no one can fathom, your woman
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    Meurice knowing she was there?”
    “That’s easy to answerI didn’t know she was thereWhere do we stand now?”
    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
    336
    “Carlos still trusts meHe blames everything on the woman, your wife, I’m told, and has no
    reason to hold me responsibleAfter all, you were there, which proves my allegianceWere it not
    for the Deuxième officer, you’d be dead
    Again Bourne nodded“How can you reach him?”
    “I cannot myselfI never have, nor have I cared toHe prefers it that way, and as I told you, the
    checks arrive on time, so I have no reason to
    “But you send him messages,” pressed Jason
    “Yes, I do, but never directlyI call several old men at cheap cafés—the names and numbers
    vary weekly and quite a few have no idea what I’m talking about, but for those that do, they call
    others immediately, and they call others beyond themselvesSomehow the messages get through
    Very quickly, I might add
    “What did I tell you?” said Krupkin emphatically“All the relays end with false names and
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    “Still, the messages get through,” said Alex Conklin, repeating Lavier’s words
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    cigarette“The routings are convoluted to the point of being untraceable
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    Conklin widened his eyes and fixed them on Lavie
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    sickShe could hear the family's voices from below, Maureen asking
    where she was, Kathleen saying she'd be down any minuteThen a
    door
    banged, and she heard ColumHe was asking for her, tooScarlett
    clenched her teethShe had to go downstairs
    She
    would not be discovered like this, bawling like a baby because she had
    partied too rolex ladies watches muc
    Friday, December 10th, 2010
    9:13 am
    rolex submariner price,purse louis vuitton,prada...
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    volcanoWell, still is a volcano, I expectNot quite dead, as you'll see in a bitAll these caves
    and holes are bubbles of air that got caught in the cooling lavaI've put quite a bit of work into
    it over the last few decadesSome of it was easy–connecting the tubes just took a little rolex submariner price elbow
    greaseOther parts took more imaginationDid you see the ceiling in the big room? That took
    meyears to get right
    I wanted to ask him how, but I couldn't bring myself to speak
    The floor began to slant downward at a steeper angleThe terrain was broken into rough steps,
    but they seemed secure enoughJeb led me down them confidentlyAs we dropped lower and
    lower into purse louis vuitton the ground, the heat and humidity increased
    I stiffened when I heard a babble of voices again, this time from aheadJeb patted my hand
    kindly
    “You'll like this part–it's always everyone's favorite,” he promised
    A wide, open arch shimmered with moving lightIt was the same color as the light in the big
    room, pure and white, but it flickered at a strange prada clutch dancing paceLike everything else that I
    couldn't understand in this cavern, the light frightened me
    “Here we are,” Jeb said enthusiastically, pulling me through the archway“What do you think?”
    CHAPTER 17
    Visited
    The heat hit me first–like a wall of steam, the moist, thick air rolled over me and dewed on my
    skinMy mouth opened automatically as I tried to pull gucci ladies watch a breath from the abruptly denser airThe
    smell was stronger than before–that same metallic tang that clung in my throat and flavored the
    water here
    The murmuring babble of bass and soprano voices seemed to issue from every side, echoing off
    the wallsI squinted anxiously through the swirling cloud of moisture, trying to make out where
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    Tuesday, December 7th, 2010
    9:06 am
    @@@@@ Worst of all, I saw Monica Goldstein,
    @@@@@
    Worst of all, I saw Monica Goldstein, screaming
    You killed my doggy!
    "Edgar, what's happening?" That was Jack, a
    thousand miles away
    I thought of Shark Puppy on The Bone, singing
    "Dig I thought of telling Tom, That man died in
    his pick-up
    Then put me in your pocket and we'll go together,
    she saidWe'll sail together into your real other
    life, and all the cities of the world will be at
    your feetand you'll be the artist of the age
    They'll rank you with Goya
    "Edgar?" There was panic in Wireman's voice
    "People are coming from the beach sideThis is bad, muchacho
    1071
    You don't need themThey're
    nothing butAt that, the red rage descended
    over my mind even as my right hand began to slip
    out of existence againBut before it could go
    completelybefore I lost my grip on either my
    fury or the damned cracked keg
    "Stick it up your friend, you dump birch," I said,
    and raised the keg over my throbbing, upthrust
    knee again"Stick it in the buddy I brought it
    down as hard as I could on that bony knobThere
    was a pain, but less than I had been prepared
    forand in the end, that's usually the way,
    don't you think? "Stick it up your fucking chum
    The keg didn't break; already cracked, it simply
    burst, showering my jeans with murky wetness from
    the inch or so of water that had still been left
    insideAnd a small china figure tumbled out: a
    woman wrapped in a cloak and a hoodThe hand
    clasping the edges of the cloak together at her
    neck was not really a hand at all, but a clawI
    snatched the thing upI had no time to study it -
    they were coming now, I had no doubt of that,
    coming for Wireman and Jack - but there was long
    1072
    enough to see that Perse was extraordinarily
    beautif
    Monday, December 6th, 2010
    9:25 am
    @@@@@She would learn to match him in his
    @@@@@She would
    learn to match him in his indifferenceShe would henceforth admit
    his attentions without any idea beyond immediate amusementIf
    he could so command his affections, hers should do her no harm
    198
    Mansfield Park
    CHAPTER XXIV
    HENRY CRAWFORD had quite made up his mind by the next morning
    to give another fortnight to Mansfield, and having sent for his
    hunters, and written a few lines of explanation to the Admiral, he
    looked round at his sister as he sealed and threw the letter from
    him, and seeing the coast clear of the rest of the family, said, with a
    smile, “And how do you think I mean to amuse myself, Mary, on
    the days that I do not hunt? I am grown too old to go out more than
    three times a week; but I have a plan for the intermediate days, and
    what do you think it is?”
    “To walk and ride with me, to be sure
    “Not exactly, though I shall be happy to do both, but that would
    be exercise only to my body, and I must take care of my mind
    Besides, that would be all recreation and indulgence, without the
    wholesome alloy of labour, and I do not like to eat the bread of
    idlenessNo, my plan is to make Fanny Price in love with me
    “Fanny Price! Nonsense! No, noYou ought to be satisfied with
    her two cousins
    “But I cannot be satisfied without Fanny Price, without making a
    small hole in Fanny Price’s heartYou do not seem properly aware of
    her claims to noticeWhen we talked of her last night, you none of
    you seemed sensible of the wonderful improvement that has taken
    place in her looks within the last six weeksYou see her every day,
    and therefore do not notice it; but I assure you she is quite a different
    creature from what she was in the autumnShe was then merely
    a quiet, modest, not plain-looking girl, but she is now absolutely
    prettyI used to think she had neither complexion nor countenance;
    but in that soft skin of hers, so frequently tinged with a blush as it
    was yesterday, there is decided beauty; and from what I observed of
    her eyes and mouth, I do not despair of their being capable of ex199
    Jane Austen
    pression enough when she has anything to expressAnd then, her
    air, her manner, her tout ensemble, is so indescribably improved! She
    must be grown two inches, at least, since October
    “Phoo! phoo! This is only because there were no tall women to
    compare her with, and because she has got a new gown, and you
    never saw her so well dressed beforeShe is just what she was in
    October, believe meThe truth is, that she was the only girl in company
    for you to notice, and you must have a somebodyI have always
    thought her pretty—not strikingly pretty—but ‘pretty enough,’
    as people say; a sort of beauty that grows on oneHer eyes should be
    darker, but she has a sweet smile; but as for this wonderful degree of
    improvement, I am sure it may all be resolved into a better style of
    dress, and your having nobody else to look at; and therefore, if you
    do set about a flirtation with her, you never will persuade me that it
    is in compliment to her beauty, or that it proceeds from anything
    but your own idleness and folly
    Her brother gave only a smile to this accusation, and soon afterwards
    said, “I do not quite know what to make of Miss FannyI do
    not understand herI could not tell what she would be at yesterday
    What is her character? Is she solemn? Is she queer? Is she prudish?
    Why did she draw back and look so grave at me? I could hardly get
    her to s
    Saturday, December 4th, 2010
    9:06 am
    @@@@@ RED: Do the same fuggin thing I always
    @@@@@
    RED: Do the same fuggin thing I always didWhat else is there?
    BROWN: When we hit Frisco, I'm going to take my pay and throw the biggest goddam old drunk that town ever saw, and then I'll shack up with some bitch, and I won't do nothing but screw and drink for two whole goddam weeks, and then I'm going to take it easy going home to Kansas, just stopping off whenever I damn feel like it, just throwing the damnedest old binge you ever saw, and then I'm gonna look my wife up, I ain't gonna let her know I'm coming, and I'm going to give her the surprise of her life, and have witnesses along, by God, and I'll throw her out of the house, and let people know the way you treat a bitch when we're stuck over here God knows how long, never knowing when you're going to catch something, just waiting and sweating it out, and finding out things about yourself that, by God, it don't pay to know
    GALLAGHER: All I know is there's a fuggin score to be paid off, a score to be paid offThere's somebody gonna pay, knock the fuggin civilians' heads in
    GOLDSTEIN: Oh, I can just see it when I get homeI'm going to get back in the early morning, and I'm going to take a taxi from Grand Central, and ride all the way out to our apartment house in Flatbush, and then I'm going to come up the stairs, and ring the bell, and Natalie'll be wondering who it is, and then she's going to come, and she's going to answer it
    MARTINEZ: San Antonio, see family maybeWalk around, nice Mexican girls San Antonio, big wad money, ribbons, go to church, kill too many goddam JapsDon't know, re-enlist, Army no goddam good, but Army okay
    MINETTA: I'm gonna walk up to every sonofabitch officer in uniform, and say 'Sucker' to them, every one of them right on Broadway, and I'm gonna expose the goddam Army
    CROFT: Waste of time thinking about itThe war'll go on for a while



    PART FOUR
    Wake



    THE MOPPING UP was eminently successfulA week after the Toyaku Line had been breached, the remnants of the Japanese garrison on Anopopei had been whittled into a hundred and then a thousand little segmentsTheir organization broke completely; battalions were cut off, and then companies, and finally platoons and squads and little slivers of five and three and two men hid in the jungle, attempted to escape the flood of American patrolsToward the end the casualty figures were unbelievableOn the fifth day two hundred and seventy-eight Japanese were killed and two Americans; on the eighth day, the most productive of the campaign, eight hundred and twenty-one Japanese were killed and nine captured for the loss of three American livesThe communiques went out with a monotonous regularity, terse and modest, not wholly inaccurate
    "General MacArthur announced today the official end of the battle for Anopopei
    "American troops under Major General Edward Cummings announced capture today of five enemy strong-points and large concentrations of food and ammunitionMopping up is in progress
    Astonishing reports continued to come in to Cummings's deskIt was discovered from questioning the few prisoners that for over a month the Japanese had been on half rations, and toward the end there had been almost no food at allA Japanese supply dump had been destroyed by artillery five weeks before, and no one had known itTheir medical facilities had been exhausted, there were portions of the Toyaku Line which had been in disrepair for six or eight weeks
    Friday, December 3rd, 2010
    9:06 am
    @@@@@She needed three more plow horsesWhile
    @@@@@She needed three more plow horsesWhile her
    eyes accustomed themselves to the shaded interior of the tent,
    Scarlett
    leaned against one of the thick tent supportsShe was starting to get
    tiredAnd she was only half done"Where is this Pegasus of yours,
    Bart? I don't see anything flying over the jumps Scarlett's hands
    reached for the thick supportThat sounded like
    Rhett's voice"If you brought me on a wild goose chaseIt is! It
    is!
    I can't be mistakenNo one else in the world sounds like RhettShe
    turned quickly, looking into the sunlit square, blinkIngIsn't it? It is, I'm sure it isIf only he'd say something
    else, turn his headHe's got no reason to be in
    IrelandBut I couldn't be wrong about that voiceHe turned to speak
    to the slightly built fair-haired man beside himHer
    knuckles were white against her hands, so tightly was she holding on
    to
    the postThe other man said something, pointed
    with hiscrop, and Rhett noddedThen the fair-haired man walked
    away,
    out of her sight, and ,55 Rhett was there aloneScarlett stood in the
    shadow, looking out to the lightDon't move, she ordered herself
    when
    he started to walk awayBut she couldn't obeyShe burst from the
    shadows and ran after him"Rhett!" He stopped awkwardly, Rhett
    who
    was never clumsy, and he spun aroundAn expression she couldn't
    recognize flickered on his face, and his dark eyes seemed very bright
    beneath the shading bill of hi
    Thursday, December 2nd, 2010
    9:06 am
    @@@@@Not fighting, not because of me I pulled
    @@@@@Not fighting, not because of me
    I pulled Jamie's arms from around my waist, holding his wrists when he tried to stop me
    “I just need a minute to myself,” I told him, ignoring all the stares I could feel on my face I turned my head to find Jeb“And you should have a chance to discuss this
    without me listeningIt's not fair–having to discuss strategy in front of the enemy
    “Now, don't be like that,” Jeb said
    “Let me have some time to think, Jeb
    I stepped away from Jamie, dropping his handsA hand fell on my shoulder, and I cringed“It's not a good idea for you to be wandering around by yourself
    I leaned toward him and tried to pitch my voice so low that Jamie wouldn't hear me clearly
    “Why prolong the inevitable? Will it get easier or harder for him?”
    I thought I knew the answer to my last questionI ducked under Ian's hand and broke into a
    run, sprinting for the exit
    “Wanda!” Jamie called after me
    Someone quickly shushed himThere were no footsteps behind meThey must have seen the
    wisdom of letting me go
    The hall was dark and desertedIf I was lucky, I'd be able to cut around the edge of the big
    garden plaza in the dark with no one the wiser
    In all my time here, the one thing I'd never found was the way outIt seemed as if I'd been
    down every tunnel time and again, and I'd never seen an opening I hadn't eventually explored in
    search of one thing or anotherI thought about it now as I crept through the deepest shadowed
    corners of the big caveWhere could the exit be? And I thought about this: if I could figure that
    puzzle out, would I be able to leave?
    I couldn't think of anything worth leaving for–certainly not the desert waiting outside, but also
    not the Seeker, not the Healer, not my Comforter, not my life before, which had left such a
    shallow impression on meEverything that really mattered was with me h
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