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    Monday, January 3rd, 2011
    10:04 am
    @@@@@The green stuff with the yellow flowers is
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    is called wedeliaThere's
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    also rhododendronThe trees are mostly just slash
    pine, I think, although-"
    She slowed to a crawl and pointed to the left,
    craning to look up through the corner of the
    windshield to do so"Those are palms of some kind
    The road bent still farther inland, and here the
    trunks flanking the road looked like knotted
    masses of gray ropeTheir roots had buckled the
    tarWe'd be able to get over now, I judged, but
    cars passing this way a few years hence? No way
    "Strangler fig," I said
    "Nice name, right out of Alfred HitchcockAnd
    they just grow wild?"
    "I don't know," I said
    She bumped the Chevy carefully over the tunneling
    roots and drove onWe were down to no more than
    five miles an hourThere was more strangler fig
    growing out of the masses of seagrape and
    rhododendronThe high growth cast the road into
    deep shadowIt was impossible to see any distance
    at all on either sideExcept for an occasional
    wedge of blue or errant sunray, even the sky was
    goneAnd now we began to see sprays of sawgrass
    155
    and tough, waxy fiddlewood growing right up
    through cracks in the tar
    My arm began to itchThe one that wasn't thereI
    reached to scratch it without thinking and only
    scratched my still-sore ribs, as I always didAt
    the same time the left side of my head started to
    itchThat I could scratch, and did
    "Daddy?"
    "I'm okayWhy are you stopping?"
    "BecauseI don't feel so great mys
    Sunday, January 2nd, 2011
    10:04 am
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    I'll try not to let Jamie see
    Thank you for bringing me back
    I won't erase you, MelanieI'm sorry I can't give you more than that
    “What's she saying?”
    “We're just… making up
    “Why couldn't she talk vintage omega seamaster before, when you were trying to let her?”
    “I don't know, JaredThere really isn't enough room for both of usI can't seem to get myself
    out of the way completelyIt's like… not like holding your breathLike trying to pause your
    heartbeatsI can't make myself not exist
    He didn't answer, Tiffany Earrings and my chest throbbed with painHow joyful he would be if Icould figure
    out how to erase myself!
    Melanie wanted to… not to contradict me, but to make me feel better; she struggled to find
    words to soften my agonyShe couldn't come up with the right ones
    But Ian would be women rolex devastatedYou have so many friends here
    I was glad that we were back to our room nowI needed to think about something else before I
    started cryingNow wasn't the time for self-pityThere were more important issues at hand than
    my heart, breaking yet again
    CHAPTER 43
    Frenzied
    Iimagined chanel white watch that from the outside, I looked as still as a statueMy hands were folded in front of
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    Saturday, January 1st, 2011
    10:11 am
    @@@@@ Watch out for your old man when he's got a
    @@@@@
    Watch out for your old man when he's got a bag on
    In the house his mother winces at sounds and walks on tiptoeHis old man sits at the round table in the living-dining room, and grabs the yellow lace cover and crushes it in his big mittsThen he spreads it out on the table again
    Goddam, sure a man hasHey, PEG!
    What is it, Will?
    His father massages his nose and chinCut out the goddam mousing around, walk like a woman goddammit
    Yes, Will?
    That's all goddammit, get away
    When your old man's as big a sonofabitch as Will Gallagher, you leave him alone when he's got a bag onBut you watch him so one of his mitts don't catch you on the side of the mouth
    He sits stolid by the round table, and beats his fist down once or twiceHe looks at the walls(The brown pictures which once were green of shepherd girls in a wooded valleyThey came off a calendar
    The triptych on the whatnot shudders as he bangs the tableWill, don't drink so much
    SHUT UP! Shut your stupid mouthHe lumbers to his feet and staggers to the wallThe glass over the shepherd girl splatters as he throws it to the floorHe sprawls on the shabby gray-brown sofa, looks at the gray shiny nap of the carpet where it has worn throughWork your ass off, FOR WHAT?
    His wife tries to slip the bottle off the tableLEAVE IT THERE! Will, maybe you can get something elseHave you whining I need a little this, a little thatJust let me break me back wrestling that truck aroundI'm stuck, I'm in a hole
    Friday, December 31st, 2010
    10:13 am
    @@@@@It was! It was coffeeMaybe she'd live
    @@@@@It was! It was coffeeMaybe she'd live after
    all
    Her steps matched MrsButler's in an eager, accelerated paceThe
    Market was like a bazaar, an oasis of light and warmth, color and life
    in the formless gray mistTorches blazed on brick pillars that
    supported tall wide arches open to the surrounding streets,
    illuminating the bright aprons and headscarves of smiling black women
    and highlighting their wares, displayed in baskets of every size and
    shape on long wooden tables painted greenIt was crowded with
    people,
    most of them moving from table to table, talking-to other shoppers or
    to the vendors in a challenging, laughing ritual of haggling obviously
    enjoyed by all"Coffee first, Scarlett?"
    "Oh, yes, please Eleanor Butler led the way to a nearby group of
    womenThey held steaming tin mugs in their gloved hands, sipping
    from
    them while they talked and laughed with one another, oblivious to the
    din around them"Good morning, Eleanor Eleanor, how are you?
    Push over, Mildred, let Eleanor get through Oh, Eleanor, did you
    hear that Kerrison's has real wool stockings on sale? It won't be in
    the paper until tomorrowWould you like to come with Alice and me?
    We're going after dinner todayOh, Eleanor, we were just talking
    about Lavinia's daughterShe lost the baby last nightLavinia's
    prostrate with griefDo you think your cook could make some of her
    wonderful wine jelly? Nobody does it the way she doesMary has a
    bottle of claret, and I'll supply the sugar
    "Morning, Miz Butler, I saw you coming, your coffee's all ready
    "And another cup for my daughter-in-law, please, SukieLadies, I
    want
    you to meet Rhett's wife, Scarlett
    All chattering stopped and all heads turned to look at scarlett
    She smiled and inclined her head in a little bo
    Thursday, December 30th, 2010
    10:04 am
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    “I’ll do what I can,” said Bourne
    “Here is my telephone Santos picked up a prearranged card from the table with numbers
    scrawled across it“Call me when London arrivesIn the meantime, I assure you, you will be
    watched
    “You’re a real swell guy
    “I’ll escort you to the elevator
    Marie sat up in bed, sipping hot tea in the dark room, listening to the sounds of Paris outside the
    windowsNot only was sleep impossible, but it was intolerable, a waste of time when every black gucci watch hour
    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
    255
    countedShe had taken the earliest flight from Marseilles to Paris and had gone directly to the
    Meunce on the rue de Rivoli, the same hotel where she had waited thirteen years ago, waited for a
    man to listen to reason or lose his life, and in doing so, losing a large part of hersShe had ordered
    a pot of tea then, and he had come back to her; she ordered tea now from the night floor steward,
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    ago
    Oh, God, she had seen him! It was no illusion, no mistake, it was David! She had left the hotel at
    midmorning and begun wandering, going down the list she had made on the plane, heading from
    one location to another without any logical sequence in mind, simply following the succession of
    places as they had come to her—that was her sequenceIt was a lesson she had learned from Jason
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    So she had followed the list, from the pier of the Bateau Mouche at the base of the avenue
    George V to the bank on the Madeleine She had wandered aimlessly along the
    terraces of the last, as if in a trance, looking for a statue she could not remember, jostled by the
    intermittent groups of tourists led by loud, officious guidesThe huge statues all began to look
    alike; she had felt light-headedThe late August sun was blindingShe was about to sit down on a
    marble bench, remembering yet another omega ladies watch dictate from Jason Bourne: Rest is a weaponSuddenly, up
    ahead, she saw a man wearing a cap and a dark V-necked sweater; he had turned and raced toward
    the palatial stone steps that led to the avenue Gustave VShe knew that run, that stride; she knew it
    better than anyone! How often had she watched him—frequently from behind bleachers, sight
    unseen—as he had pounded around the university track, ridding himself of the furies that had
    gripped himIt was David! She had leaped up from the bench and raced after him
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    Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
    10:04 am
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    I took his hand and let him pull me out of what I
    presumed was a replacement beach chairHe had a
    strong gripThat was something else I'll never
    forget about Jerome Wireman; the man had a strong
    gripThe boardwalk up to the gate in the back
    wall was only wide enough for one, so I followed,
    limping gamely alongWhen he reached the gate -
    which was tiffany heart tag a smaller version of the one in front
    and looked as Spanish as Wireman's offhand patois
    - he turned toward me, smiling a little
    "Josie comes in to clean Tuesdays and Thursdays,
    and she's willing to keep an ear out for Miss
    Eastlake during her afternoon nap - which means I
    could come down and look at your pictures tomorrow
    afternoon around two, if that suits
    "How did you know I wanted you to? I was still
    working watches gucci up the nerve to ask"It's pretty obvious you want someone
    to look before you show them to the guy at that
    galleryBesides your daughter and the kid who
    runs your errands, that is
    "The appointment's on Friday
    256
    Wireman waggled his hand in the air and smiled
    "Don't worry," he said"If I think
    your stuff is crap, I'm going to tell you so"Just wanted to be clear Then he
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    I'd already seen the courtyard, on the day I'd
    used the front entrance to turn around, but on
    that day I'd gotten little more than a glanceI'd
    mostly been concentrating on getting myself and my
    ashen-faced, perspiring daughter back to Big Pink
    I'd noticed the tennis court and the cool blue
    tiles, but had missed the koi pool entirelyThe
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    paved surface two shades darker than the courtyard
    tileOne turn of the chrome crank would bring the
    net taut and readyA full basket of balls stood
    on wire stilts, and made me think briefly of the
    sketch Ilse had taken back to Providence with her:
    The End of the Game
    257
    "One of these days, muchacho," Wireman said,
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    Monday, December 27th, 2010
    10:06 am
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    “You should probably clean up, too,” Jared said with a sigh“Guess that means a hotel
    tonight
    Keeping up appearances was not something they'd worried about beforeOf course, I was the
    only one who had to look as if I were a part of civilization from close upThe men wore jeans
    and white chanel watch dark T-shirts now, things that didn't show dirt or attract attention in the brief moments they
    might be seen
    They all hated sleeping in the roadside inns–succumbing to unconsciousness inside the very
    mouth of the enemyIt scared them more than anything else we didIan said he'd rather charge
    an armed SeekerHe mostly slept in the van during the day and then sat up omega seamaster gold at night, acting
    as sentry
    For me, it was as easy as shopping in the storesI checked us in, made conversation with the
    clerkTold the story about my photographer partner and the friend who was traveling with us
    (just in case someone saw all three of us enter the room)I used generic names from
    unremarkable planetsSometimes we were Bats: Word Keeper, Sings the Egg Tiffany Bracelets Song, and Sky
    RoostSometimes we were See Weeds: Twisting Eyes, Sees to the Surface, and Second
    SunriseI changed the names every time, not that anyone was trying to trace our pathIt just
    made Melanie feel safer to do thatAll this made her feel like a character in a human movie
    about espionage
    The hard part, the part I really minded–not that I would say this in cartier love front of Kyle, who was so
    quick to doubt my intentions–was all the taking without giving anything backIt had never
    bothered me to shop in San DiegoI took what I needed and nothing moreThen I spent my
    days at the university giving back to the community by sharing my knowledgeNot a taxing
    Calling, but one I took seriouslyI took my turns at the less-appealing black and white bags cho
    Sunday, December 26th, 2010
    10:14 am
    @@@@@ Bill! Now, fellows, the counselor
    @@@@@
    Bill!

    Now, fellows, the counselor says, if you're a good fellow you co-operate and if you're square and honest you do your part of your dutiesWho was it that left his bed undone this morning?
    No answerIt was you, Hearn, wasn't it?
    Yes
    The counselor sighsFellows, I'm going to give this tent a demerit because of Robert
    Well, I don't see why you have to make a bed when you just got to take it apart at night
    What's the matter, Hearn, are you filthy, how were you brought up if you don't make a bed? And why didn't you come out like a man and say you were guilty?
    Aw, leave me alone
    Another demerit, the counselor saysFellows, it's up to you to make Robert behave
    Only he wins back the demerits at the team boxing matches that afternoonHe shuffles in clumsily against the other kid, his arms tired from the heavy gloves, and swings his fists desperately
    His father has come up to see him for the daySock it to him, give it to him, Robert, in the head, in the stomach, give it to him
    The other kid jolts him in the face, and he pauses for a moment, drops his gloves, and dabs at his outraged noseAnother punch makes his ear ringDon't let up, Bobby, his father shoutsA missed punch travels around his head, the forearm scraping the skin on his face
    In the belly, Robert
    He swings out feverishly, flailing his armsThe other kid walks into a punch, sits down surprised, and then gets up slowlyRobert keeps swinging at him, hitting him, and the kid goes down again, and the referee stops the fightBobby Hearn on a TKO, he shouts, gives four points to the BluesThe kids yell, and Bill Hearn is putting a bear hug around him as he climbs out of the ropes set up on the grassOh, you gave it to him, Bobby, I told you to give it to him in the belly, that was the way to fight, kid, goddam, I got to hand it to you, you're not afraid to step in and mix it
    He wiggles out of the h
    Saturday, December 25th, 2010
    10:14 am
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    tall brown grasses that swayed slowly-oh, so slowly-in the tidal
    current, and behind them thick woods draped with motionless gray
    curtains of Spanish moss, under them the tangled growth of
    overgrown
    evergreen shrubs
    It was all so silentWhy weren't there any birds singing, for
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    she was soaked to the skin and shivering, miserable in body and mind
    The bump of the bow against a dock jarred her from her huddled
    desolationShe looked up through the blur of rain on her face and
    saw
    a figure in streaming black oilskins, illuminated by a blazing torch
    The face was invisible under a deep hood Rhett
    leaned forward, one arm louis vuitton online outstretched"Good trip, boys?" Scarlett
    pushed against the crates nearest her to standHer legs were too
    cramped to hold her, and she fell back, toppling the topmost crate with
    a crash"What the hell?" Rhett caught the noosed rope that snaked
    to
    him from the boatman and dropped the circle over a mooring post
    "Toss
    up the stern line," he ordered"What's making that racket? Are you
    men drunk?"
    "No sir, Mister Rhett," the men wallet gucci boatmen chorusedIt was the first time
    they had spoken since they had left the dock in CharlestonOne of
    them gestured toward the two women in the stern of the barge"My
    God!" said Rhetto you feel better now?" Rhett's voice was carefully
    controlledScarlett nodded dumblyShe was wrapped in a blanket,
    wearing a coarse work shirt of Rhett's underneath, and sitting on a
    stool near an open fire with her bare feet in a tub of hot omega geneve water"How
    are you doing, Pansy?" Scarlett's maid, on another stool in another
    blanket cocoon, grinned and allowed as how she was doing just fine
    excepting that she was powerful hungry
    When you dry out, we'll eat Scarlett pulled the blanket more closely
    around herHe's being too nice, I've seen him like this before, all
    smiles and warm as sunshineThen it would turn out that he was
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    Friday, December 24th, 2010
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    “You cannot do this to himYou’ll kill him! Get out of hereNow!”
    Her eyes half blinded with fury and fear and tears, Marie started toward the left side of the
    lobby, desperately wanting to look back, but just as desperately knowing she could not do soShe
    reached the narrow set of glass double doors, colliding with a uniformed bellhop carrying suitcases
    inside
    “Pardon, madame!”
    “Moi aussi,” she stammered, maneuvering again blindly around the luggage and out to the
    pavementWhat could she do—what should she do? David was somewhere in the hotel—in the
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    was happening? My God, someone’s trying to kill David! The old Frenchman had said as
    much—who was itwho were they? Where were they?
    Help me! For God’s sake, Jason, tell me what to dohelp me! She stood,
    frozen, as taxis and limousines broke off from the noonday traffic and pulled up to the Meurice’s
    curb, where a gold-braided doorman under the huge canopy greeted newcomers and old faces and
    sent bellboys scurrying in all directionsA large black limousine with a small discreet religious
    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
    286
    insignia on its passenger door, the cruciform standard of some high office of the Church, inched its
    way to dolce sale the canopied areaMarie stared at the small emblem; it was circular and no more than six
    inches in diameter, a globe of royal purple surrounding an elongated crucifix of goldShe winced
    and held her breath; her panic now had a disturbing new dimensionShe had seen that insignia
    before, and all she remembered was that it had filled her with horror
    The limousine stopped; both curbside doors were opened by the smiling, bowing doorman as
    five priests emerged, one from the front seat, four from the spacious rear sectionThose from the
    back immediately, oddly, threaded their way into the noonday crowds of strollers on the pavement,
    two forward in gucci boston bag front of the vehicle, two behind it, one of the priests whipping past Marie, his black
    coat making contact with her, his face so close she could see the blazing unpriestly eyes of a man
    who was no part of a religious orderThen the association with the emblem, the religious
    insignia, came back to her!
    Years ago, when David—when Jason—was in maximum therapy with Panov, Mo had him
    sketch, draw, doodle whatever images came to himTime and again that terrible circle with the thin
    crucifix appeared invariably torn apart or stabbed repeatedly with the pencil pointThe Jackal!
    Suddenly, Marie’s eyes were drawn to a figure crossing the rue de cartier love RivoliIt was a tall man in
    dark clothes—a dark sweater and trousers—and he was limping, dodging the traffic, a hand
    shielding his face from the drizzle that soon would turn into rainThe limp was false! The leg
    straightened if only for an instant and the swing of the shoulder that compensated was a defiant
    gesture she knew only too wellIt was David!
    Another, no more than eight feet from her, also saw what she sawA miniature radio was
    instantly brought to the man’s lipsMarie rushed forward, her extended hands the claws of a tigress
    as she lunged at the killer in priest’s clothing
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    Thursday, December 23rd, 2010
    10:04 am
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    in raised gold lettersI got the after-hours
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    440
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    you give me a call?" I recited my telephone number
    and hung up, feeling a little betterFeeling as
    if I'd done something, at least
    I got a beer out of the fridge and turned on the
    TV, thinking I might find a movie worth watching
    on HBO before turning inThe shells beneath the
    house had taken on a pleasant, lulling sound,
    their conversation tonight civilized and lowpitched
    They were drowned out by the voice of a man
    standing in a thicket of microphonesIt was
    Channel 6, and the current star was Candy Brown's
    court-appointed lawyerHe must have held this
    videotaped press conference at approximately the
    same time Wireman was getting his head examined
    The lawyer looked about fifty, and his hair was
    pulled back into a Barrister Ponytail, but there
    was nothing going-through-the-motions about him
    He looked and sounded investedHe was telling the
    reporters that his client would plead not guilty
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    addition to Channel 6's mike, I saw NBC, CBS, ABC,
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    10:11 am
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    Abruptly the pores of his body opened, discharged their perspirationHe shivered in the cold mountain air, wrestling against the same anxiety he had suffered on the troopship the hours before they had invaded AnopopeiAgainst his will he stared up at the tessellated stones and jungle of the upper ridges, closed his eyes and saw the ramp of the landing boat going downHis body tensed, waiting for the machine-gun fireNothing happened and he opened his eyes, racked by an acute frustrationSomething had to happen
    If only he could see a snapshot of his kid, Gallagher thought"It's a goddam trap goin' up this mountain," he muttered
    Gallagher extended his arm, touched Martinez's elbow for a moment"Why don't we go back?" he asked
    "It's fuggin suicideWhat are we, a bunch of goddam mountain goats?" He rubbed the coarse itching hairs of his beard"Listen, we'll all get knocked off
    Martinez wriggled his toes inside his boots, extracting a bleak satisfaction
    "You wanta get your fuggin head blown off?"
    "No He fingered the little tobacco pouch in his pocket where he kept the gold teeth he had stolen from the cadaverPerhaps he should throw them awayBut they were so pretty, so valuableMartinez wavered, then left them thereHe was struggling against the conviction that they would be an effective sacrifice
    "We ain't got a fuggin chance Gallagher's voice shook, and as if he were a sounding board, Martinez resonated to itThey sat staring at each other, bound by their common
    Saturday, December 18th, 2010
    10:07 am
    @@@@@"And don't you dare laugh," Colum
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    empty buildings," she gasped"I'm awash with tea and foundering
    from
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    there's no hospitality offered and received? If you were a man, it
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    year in IrelandAccompanied by everyone who worked and lived in
    Ballyhara, Scarlett stood in the center of a big field and, after
    saying a prayer for the success of the crops, sank a spade into the
    earth, lifted and turned the first sodNow the year could begin
    After the feast of applecake-and milk, of course, because February I
    was also the feast day of Saint Brigid, Ireland's other patron saint,
    who was also patron saint of the dairyWhen everyone was eating
    and
    talking after the ceremony, Scarlett knelt by the opened earth and
    took
    up a handful of the rich loam"This is for you, Pa," she murmured
    "See, Katie Scarlett hasn't forgotten what you told her, that the land
    of County Meath is the best in the world, better even than the land of
    Georgia, of TaraI'll do my best to tend it, Pa, and love it the way
    you taught meIt's O'Hara soil, and it's ours again The age-old
    progression of plowing and harrowing, planting and praying had a
    simple, hard-working dignity that won Scarlett's admiration and
    respect
    for all who lived by the landShe had felt it when she lived in
    Daniel's cottage and she felt it now for the farmers at BallyharaFor
    herself as well, because she was, in her own way, one of themShe
    hadn't the strength to drive the plow, but she could provide itAnd
    the horses to pull itAnd the seed to plant in the furrows it made
    The Estate Office was her home even more than her rooms in the Big
    HouseThere was another cradle for Cat by her desk, identical to the
    one in her bedroom, and she could rock it with her foot while she
    worked on her record books and her accounts
    Friday, December 17th, 2010
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    memory
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    from my mouth, and I was unable to stop rolex watches for women themSharing for so long in the desert had made her
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    I tasted blood inside my cheek
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    Saturday, December 11th, 2010
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    Wireman's hand gripped mine
    "Hello, boys," Noveen said, and although Jack's
    Adam's apple bobbed up and down, his lips barely
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    "Hey! How was that?"
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    "I get paid extra for this, don't I, boss?"
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    "Ain't you gone draw nuthin?" Noveen asked,
    looking at me with those round black eyesThey
    really were shoebuttons, I was almost sure of it
    "I have nothing to draw," I said
    "I tell you sumpin you c'n drawWhereat yo pad?"
    Jack was now looking off to the side, into the
    shadows leading to the ruined parlor, bemused,
    eyes distantHe looked neither conscious nor
    unconscious; he looked someplace between
    Wireman let go of me and reached into the food-bag,
    where I had stowed the two Artisan padsJack's hand flexed a bit, and Noveen
    appeared to bend her head slightly to study it as
    I first flipped back the cover and then unzipped
    the pouch that held my pencils
    I rummaged again, and took out Libbit's pale green
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    "Draw me in the kitch
    Friday, December 10th, 2010
    10:12 am
    @@@@@All her attention was for her workShe
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    by nothing elseBut taste was too strong in herShe could not abstract
    her mind five minutes: she was forced to listen; his reading
    was capital, and her pleasure in good reading extremeTo good reading,
    however, she had been long used: her uncle read well, her cousins
    all, Edmund very well, but in MrCrawford’s reading there was
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    292
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    King, the Queen, Buckingham, Wolsey, Cromwell, all were given
    in turn; for with the happiest knack, the happiest power of jumping
    and guessing, he could always alight at will on the best scene, or the
    best speeches of each; and whether it were dignity, or pride, or tenderness,
    or remorse, or whatever were to be expressed, he could do
    it with equal beautyIt was truly dramaticHis acting had first taught
    Fanny what pleasure a play might give, and his reading brought all
    his acting before her again; nay, perhaps with greater enjoyment,
    for it came unexpectedly, and with no such drawback as she had
    been used to suffer in seeing him on the stage with Miss Bertram
    Edmund watched the progress of her attention, and was amused
    and gratified by seeing how she gradually slackened in the needlework,
    which at the beginning seemed to occupy her totally: how it
    fell from her hand while she sat motionless over it, and at last, how
    the eyes which had appeared so studiously to avoid him throughout
    the day were turned and fixed on Crawford—fixed on him for minutes,
    fixed on him, in short, till the attraction drew Crawford’s upon
    her, and the book was closed, and the charm was brokenThen she
    was shrinking again into herself, and blushing and working as hard
    as ever; but it had been enough to give Edmund encouragement for
    his friend, and as he cordially thanked him, he hoped to be expressing
    Fanny’s secret feelings too
    “That play must be a favourite with you,” said he; “you read as if
    you knew it well
    “It will be a favourite, I believe, from this hour,” replied Crawford;
    “but I do not think I have had a volume of Shakespeare in my hand
    before since I was fifteenI once saw Henry the Eighth acted, or I
    have heard of it from somebody who did, I am not certain which
    But Shakespeare one gets acquainted with without knowing howIt
    is a part of an Englishman’s constitutionHis thoughts and beauties
    are so spread abroad that one touches them everywhere; one is intimate
    with him by instinctNo man of any brain can open at a good
    part of one of his plays without falling into the flow of his meaning
    immediately
    “No doubt one is familiar with Shakespeare in a degree,” said
    Edmund, “from one’s earliest yearsHis celebrated passages are
    quoted by everybody; they are in half the books we open, and we all
    293
    Jane Austen
    talk Shakespeare, use his similes, and describe with his descriptions;
    but this is totally distinct from giving his sense as you gave itTo
    know him in bits and scraps is common enough; to know him pretty
    thoroughly is, perhaps, not uncommon; but to read him well aloud
    is no everyday talent
    “Sir, you do me honour,” was Crawford’s answer, with a bow of
    mock gravity
    Both gentlemen had a glance at Fanny, to see if a word of accordant
    praise could be extorted from her; yet both feeling that it could
    not beHer praise had been given in her attention; that must content
    them
    Lady Bertram’s admiration was expressed, and strongly to
    Tuesday, December 7th, 2010
    10:11 am
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    mother’s answers: Because Uncle John wants us to stay hereYes, well, Daddy was with us then
    There might be any number of explanations for the brief exchange he had overheard, but
    Fontaine could sense warnings quicker than most men, for his life had been filled with themHe
    sensed one now, and for that reason an old man would take a number of walks late at night for
    “circulatory purposes
    He turned from the wall and started down the concrete path so absorbed in thought that he nearly
    collided with a guest at least his own age wearing a foolish-looking little white cap and white
    shoes
    “Excuse me,” said the stranger, sidestepping out of Fontaine’s way
    “Pardon, monsieur!” exclaimed the embarrassed hero of France, unconsciously slipping into his
    native tongue“Je regrette—that is to say, it is I who must be excused
    “Oh?” At his words the stranger’s eyes briefly widened, almost as if there had been recognition
    that was quickly hidden
    “Pardon, we have met, monsieur?”
    “I don’t believe so,” replied the old man in the silly white cap“But we’ve all heard the rumors
    A great French hero is among the guestsThe accidents of war when we were all much youngerJean
    Pierre FontaineBrendan Patrick—”
    “A pleasure to make your acquaintance, monsieur Both men shook hands“This is a lovely
    place, is it not?”
    “Simply beautiful Again the stranger seemed to be studying him, thought Fontaine, yet, oddly
    enough, avoiding any prolonged eye contact“Well, I must be on my way,” added the elderly guest
    in the brand-new white shoes
    “Moi aussi,” said Jean Pierre, purposely speaking French, which evidently had an effect on the
    stranger“Toujours le médecin à notre age, n’est-ce pas?”
    “All too true,” replied the old man with the bony legs, nodding and making the gesture of a
    wave as he turned and walked rapidly up the path
    Fontaine stood motionless watching the receding figure, waiting, knowing it would happe
    Monday, December 6th, 2010
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    Sutcliffe is a magistrate, and he'll see to it that both of you end up
    in the dock!" She didn't really know that Ernest Sutcliffe was a
    magistrate, but he looked like one with his bushy ginger mustacheO'hara is it?" The Kevin who'd been cartier love told to search her buggy
    came forward beside her"We heard tell of you in
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    ago
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    "Whatever for?" she said"They're saying you're from America, Mrs
    O'hara, a fact I can tell the truth of myself after hearing chanel logo earrings you
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    a place we two hold a fondness for in our hearts, seeing we both
    fought
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    "You did?" Think of meeting someone from home on the road to
    Kilbride
    "Where were you? What part of Georgia? Were you with General
    hood?"
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    the
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    that Scarlett shook her head to clear itShe couldn't be hearing
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    men,
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    ago, and you're friends nowDon't you even argue about the North
    and
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    Saturday, December 4th, 2010
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    He nodded, his eyes bright“Were they furry, like tarantulas?”
    “NoSort of… armored–scaled, like a reptile or a fish
    I slouched against the wall, settling myself in for a long conversation
    Jeb didn't disappoint on that countI lost track of how many questions he asked meHe wanted
    details–the Spiders' looks, their behaviors, and how they'd handled EarthHe didn't flinch away
    from the invasion details; on the contrary, he almost seemed to enjoy that part more than the
    restHis questions came fast on the heels of my answers, and his grins were frequentWhen he
    was satisfied about the Spiders, hours later, he wanted to know more about the Flowers
    “You didn't half explain that one,” he reminded me
    So I told him about that most beautiful and placid of planetsAlmost every time I stopped to
    breathe, he interrupted me with a new questionHe liked to guess the answers before I could
    speak and didn't seem to mind getting them wrong in the least
    “So did ya eat flies, like a Venus flytrap? I'll bet you did–or maybe something bigger, like a
    bird–like a pterodactyl!”
    “No, we used sunlight for food, like most plants here
    “Well, that's not as much fun as my idea
    Sometimes I found myself laughing with him
    We were just moving on to the Dragons when Jamie showed up with dinner for three
    “Hi, Wanderer,” he said, a little embarrassed
    “Hi, Jamie,” I answered, a little shy, not sure if he would regret the closeness we'd sharedI
    was, after all, the bad guy
    But he sat down right next to me, between me and Jeb, crossing his legs and setting the food
    tray in the middle of our little conclaveI was starving, and parched from all the talkingI took a
    bowl of soup and downed it in a few gul
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