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    Monday, January 3rd, 2011
    5:47 pm
    @@@@@ She had submitted the best to the
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    She had submitted the best to the disappointment in Henry
    CrawfordAfter the first bitterness of the conviction of being slighted
    was over, she had been tolerably soon in a fair way of not thinking
    408
    Mansfield Park
    of him again; and when the acquaintance was renewed in town, and
    MrRushworth’s house became Crawford’s object, she had had the
    merit of withdrawing herself from it, and of chusing that time to pay
    a visit to her other friends, in order to secure herself from being again
    too much attractedThis had been her motive in going to her cousin’sYates’s convenience had had nothing to do with itShe had been
    allowing his attentions some time, but with very little idea of ever
    accepting him; and had not her sister’s conduct burst forth as it did,
    and her increased dread of her father and of home, on that event,
    imagining its certain consequence to herself would be greater severity
    and restraint, made her hastily resolve on avoiding such immediate
    horrors at all risks, it is probable that MrYates would never have
    succeededShe had not eloped with any worse feelings than those of
    selfish alarmIt had appeared to her the only thing to be doneMaria’s
    guilt had induced Julia’s folly
    Henry Crawford, ruined by early independence and bad domestic
    example, indulged in the freaks of a cold-blooded vanity a little
    too longOnce it had, by an opening undesigned and unmerited,
    led him into the way of happinessCould he have been satisfied
    with the conquest of one amiable woman’s affections, could he have
    found sufficient exultation in overcoming the reluctance, in working
    himself into the esteem and tenderness of Fanny Price, there
    would have been every probability of success and felicity for him
    His affection had already done somethingHer influence over him
    had already given him some influence over herWould he have deserved
    more, there can be no doubt that more would have been
    obtained, especially when that marriage had taken place, which
    would have given him the assistance of her conscience in subduing
    her first inclination, and brought them very often togetherWould
    he have persevered, and uprightly, Fanny must have been his reward,
    and a reward very voluntarily bestowed, within a reasonable
    period from Edmund’s marrying Mary
    Had he done as he intended, and as he knew he ought, by going
    down to Everingham after his return from Portsmouth, he might
    have been deciding his own happy destinyBut he was pressed to
    stay for MrsFraser’s party; his staying was made of flattering consequence,
    and he was to meet MrsCuriosity and
    409
    Jane Austen
    vanity were both engaged, and the temptation of immediate pleasure
    was too strong for a mind unused to make any sacrifice to
    right: he resolved to defer his Norfolk journey, resolved that writing
    should answer the purpose of it, or that its purpose was unimportant,
    and staidRushworth, was received by her with a
    coldness which ought to have been repulsive, and have established
    apparent indifference between them for ever; but he was mortified,
    he could not bear to be thrown off by the woman whose smiles had
    been so wholly at his command: he must exert himself to subdue so
    proud a display of resentment; it was anger on Fanny’s account; he
    must get the better of it, and make MrsRushworth Maria Bertram
    again in her treatment of himself
    In this spirit he began the attack, and by animated perseverance
    had soon re-established the sort of familiar intercourse, of gallantry,
    of flirtation, which bounded his views; but in triumphing over the
    discretion which, though beginning in anger, might have saved them
    both, he had put himself in the power of feelings on her side more
    strong than he had supposedShe loved him; there was no withdrawing
    attentions avowedly dear to
    Sunday, January 2nd, 2011
    5:51 pm
    @@@@@ “I’ll tell you whether you have or not,”
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    “I’ll tell you whether you have or not,” shot back Bourne, his eyes angry as he started across the
    sand, adding in a loud voice without looking around, “I’m going to have a dozen questions for you,
    and I hope to Christ you can answer them!”
    StJacques tensed, taking a step forward but stopped by his sister“Leave it alone, Bro,” said
    Marie, her hand on his arm
    “He’s what? He’s one nasty son of a bitch is what he is!”
    “Yes, I know
    The brother looked at his sister“That stranger you were talking about yesterday at the house?”
    “Yes, only now it’s worseThat’s why he’s frightened
    “I don’t understand
    “He’s older, JohnnyHe’s fifty now and he wonders if he can still do the things he did before,
    years ago—in the war, in Paris, in Hong KongIt’s all gnawing at him, eating into him, because he
    knows he’s got to be better than he ever was
    “I know he will be, for he has an extraordinary reason going for himA wife and two children
    were taken from him once beforeHe barely remembers them, but they’re at the core of his
    torment; Mo Panov believes that and I do, tooNow, years later, another wife and two children
    are threatenedEvery nerve in him has to be on fire
    Suddenly, from three hundred feet away on the beach, Bourne’s voice erupted, splitting through
    the breezes from the sea“Goddamn it, I told you to hurry! Expert, there’s a reef
    out here with the color of a sandbar beyond it! Have you considered that?”
    “Don’t answer, JohnnyWe’ll go out to the plane
    “A sandbar? What the hell’s he talking about? Oh, my God, I do see!”
    “I don’t,” said Marie as they walked rapidly up the pier
    “There are reefs around eighty percent of the island, ninety-five percent where this beach is
    concernedThey brake the waves, it’s why it’s called Tranquility; there’s no surf at all
    “So what?”
    “So someone using a tank under water wouldn’t risk crashing into a reef, but he would into a
    sandbar in front of a re
    Saturday, January 1st, 2011
    5:54 pm
    @@@@@Don't you remember? You told they were like
    @@@@@Don't you remember? You told they were like a
    cathedralWe'll put in an organYou can raise new foals on Bach
    You can't let things beat you, Bart, you've to keep going on
    I know, I've been down to the bottom myselfcan't give up, you just
    can't John Morland's eyes were like cold embers"I'm going to
    gland tonight on the eight o'clock boatI never want to see an face
    or hear an Irish voice againI put Dijon in a safe place sold up
    She's entered in the claiming race this afternoon, and it's over, so is
    Ireland for me His tragic eyes were at least And dryScarlett
    almost wished he would begin to cry againleast he'd felt something
    thenNow he looked as if he would be able to feel anything ever
    againThen, as she watched, a transformation took
    placeSir John Morland, Baronet, came back to life by effort of
    will
    His shoulders firmed, and his mouth curved in a smileHis eyes even
    had a hint of laughter in them"Poor Scarlett, I fear I rather put
    you through the wringerFinish your coffee, there's a good girl, and
    come along to the track with meI'll put a fiver on Dijon for you,
    and you can buy the champagne with your winnings when she shows
    her
    heels to the rest of the field Scarlett had never in her life
    respected anyone as much as she did Bart Morland at that moment
    She
    found a smile to meet his"I'll match your fiver with one of my own,
    Bart, and we'll have champagne, too
    Friday, December 31st, 2010
    5:55 pm
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    But she was gone
    It took us a long timeI was surprised by how far we had to goI'd been thinking we were
    going to the big plaza or the kitchen–the usual places for congregatingBut we went through
    the eastern field and kept going until we finally reached the big, deep black cave that Jeb cartier santos 100 had
    called the game roomI hadn't been here since my first tourThe biting scent of the sulfurous
    spring greeted me
    Unlike most of the caverns here, the game room was much wider than it was tallI could see
    that now because the dim blue lights hung from the ceiling rather than resting on the floorThe
    ceiling was only a omega moon watch few feet over my head, the height of a normal ceiling in a houseBut I
    couldn't even see the walls, they were so distant from the lightsI couldn't see the smelly spring,
    tucked away in some far corner, but I could hear it dribble and gush
    Kyle sat in the brightest spot of lightHe had his long arms wrapped around his rolex submariner price legsHis face
    was set in a stiff maskHe didn't look up when Ian helped me limp in
    On either side of him were Jared and Doc, on their feet, both with their arms hanging loose and
    ready at their sidesAs though they were… guards
    Jeb stood beside Jared, his gun slung over one shoulderHe appeared relaxed, but I knew balenciaga motorcycle how
    quickly that could changeJamie held his free hand… no, Jeb had his hand around Jamie's wrist,
    and Jamie didn't seem happy about itWhen he saw me come in, though, he smiled and waved
    He took a deep breath and looked pointedly at JebJeb dropped Jamie's wrist
    Sharon stood beside Doc, with Aunt Maggie at her other chanel jewelry
    Thursday, December 30th, 2010
    5:47 pm
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    dolce sale,Cartier tank,chanel knockoff,gucci mens watch,spy bag fendi@@@@@At least once or twice every night, a man on guard would awaken the entire squad and they would sit in their holes for almost an hour searching the field beneath them in the silver uncertain moonlight
    Occasionally, they would hear the crackling of some rifles in the distance sounding like a bonfire of dry twigs on an autumn day, and often a shell or two would arch lazily overhead, sighing and murmuring before it crashed into the jungle beyond their linesAt night the machine guns would be hollow and deep, and would hold the mournful boding note of primitive drumsAlmost always, they could hear some noise like a dolce sale grenade or a mortar or the insistent shrill tatting of a sub-machine gun, but the sounds were so far away and so muffled that in time they disregarded themThe week went by in an uncomfortable suspended tension which they felt only in their unvoiced fear of the towering mute walls of Watamai Range on their right

    Every day a ration detail of three men would trudge over to the hill on which the adjacent platoon of A Company was bivouacked, and return with a box of 10-in-l rations and two five-gallon jerricans of waterThe trip was always uneventful and the men did not dislike it, for the monotony of the morning was Cartier tank broken and it gave them a chance to talk to someone other than the men in their squad
    On the last day of the week, Croft and Red and Gallagher filed down their hill, wove through the six-foot kunai grass in the valley beneath them, emerged into a bamboo grove, and from there followed the trail that led to A CompanyThey filled their empty water cans, strapped them to pack boards, and talked for a few minutes with some of the men in A Company before starting backCroft was leading them, and when he reached the beginning of the trail he halted, and motioned to Red and Gallagher to come forward
    "Listen," he chanel knockoff whispered"You men were making too goddam much noise coming down the hillJust 'cause this is a short distance and you got a little weight on your back don' mean you're supposed to wallow round like a bunch of goddam pigs
    "Okay," Gallagher muttered sullenly
    "C'mon, let's go," Red mutteredHe and Croft had hardly spoken to each other all week
    The three men filed slowly down the trail keeping a distance of ten yards between themRed found himself treading warily, and he realized with a trace of anger that Croft's command was influencing himHe walked along for many yards trying to determine whether he was afraid of Croft's gucci mens watch anger or his caution came from habitHe was still debating this when he saw Croft stop abruptly, and creep through some bushes on the side of the trailCroft turned around and looked at Gallagher and him, and then waved his arm forward in a slow silent motionRed looked at his face; Croft's mouth and eyes were expressionless but there was a poise and tension about his entire body which was imperativeRed crouched and moved up beside himWhen the three of them were together, Croft held his finger to his mouth, and then pointed through a break in the foliage beside the trailAbout twenty-five yards away there was a tiny spy bag fendi hollo
    Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
    5:47 pm
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    "Well, sureNo sense having a six-shooter if you're not going to put
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    rough hand
    "I'll let you learn to ride Western, too, Wade HamptonI reckon
    you'll be the only boy in these Gucci Purse parts that'll know what a real saddle
    ought to beBut we can't start todayMy brother's going to be
    giving me lessons in farmingSee how it Is-everybody's got to learn
    new things all the time Tony planted quick kisses on Suellen's and
    Scarlett's cheeks- the little girls got theirs on the top of their
    head-and then he said spy bag fendi goodbye"Alex is waiting for me down by the
    creekWhy don't you go find Sally? I think she's hanging up the wash
    out behind the house Sally acted glad to see them, but Suellen
    refused her invitation to stop in for a cup of coffee"I've got to
    get home and do just what you're doing, Sally, we can't stayWe just
    didn't want to leave without replica balenciaga saying hello
    And she hurried Scarlett back to the wagon"I don't see why you
    were
    so rude to Sally, SuellenYour wash could have waited while we had a
    cup of coffee and talked about the party"Scarlett, you don't know
    anything about keeping a farm goingIf Sally got behind on her wash,
    she'd be behind on everything else all dayWe can't birkin bag hermes get a bunch of
    servants way out here in the country the way you can in Atlanta
    We've
    got to do plenty of the work ourselves Scarlett bridled at the tone
    of her sister's voice"I might just as well go back to Atlanta on
    this afternoon's train," she said crossly"It would make things a lot
    easier for all of us if you did," Suellen Tiffany Bracelets reto
    Monday, December 27th, 2010
    5:52 pm
    @@@@@DeSole adjusted his steelrimmed glasses and
    @@@@@DeSole adjusted his steelrimmed
    glasses and squinted at his watch, barely able to see the radium handsAs near as he could
    determine, it was between 3:15 and 3:20 in the morning, which meant he was early and that was
    goodHe had to adjust his thoughts; he was unable to do so while driving, as his severe night
    blindness necessitated complete concentration on the road, and hiring a taxi or a driver was out of
    the question
    The information was at first His name is
    Webb, the caller had saidThank you, he had repliedA sketchy description was given, one fitting
    several million men, so he had thanked the informer again and hung up the phoneBut then, in the
    recesses of his analyst’s mind, by profession and training a warehouse for both essential and
    incidental data, an alarm went offamnesia? A clinic in Virginia years agoA man
    more dead than alive had been flown down from a hospital in New York, the medical file so
    maximum classified it could not even be shown to the Oval OfficeYet interrogation specialists
    talk in dark corners, as often to relieve frustration as to impress a listener, and he had heard about a
    recalcitrant, unmanageable patient, an amnesiac they called “Davey” and sometimes just a short,
    sharp, hostile “Webb,” formerly a member of Saigon’s infamous Medusa, and a man they
    suspected of feigning his loss of memoryLoss of memory? Alex Conklin had told them that the
    Medusan they had trained to go out in deep cover for Carlos the Jackal, an agent provocateur they
    called Jason Bourne, had lost his memoryLost his memory and nearly lost his life because his
    controls disbelieved the story of amnesia! That was the man they called “Davey” David
    Webb was Conklin’s Jason Bourne! How could it be otherwise?
    David Webb! And he had been at Norman Swayne’s house the night the Agency was told that
    poor cuckolded Swayne had taken his own life, a suicide that had not been reported in the papers
    for reasons DeSole could not possibly understand! David WebbWhy?
    The headlights of an approaching limousine shot through the darkness at the far end of the
    parking lot, swerving in a semicircle toward the CIA analyst, causing him to shut his eyes—the
    refracted light through his thick lenses was painfulHe had to make the sequence of his revelations
    clear to these menThey were his means to a life he and his wife had dreamed of—moneyNot
    bureaucratic less-than-money, but real moneyEducation at the best universities for their
    grandchildren, not the state colleges and the begged-for scholarships that came with the
    government salary of a bureaucrat—a bureaucrat so much better than those around him it was
    pitifulDeSole the Mute Mole, they called him, but would not pay him for his expertise, the very
    expertise that prohibited him from going into the private sector, surrounding him with so many
    legal restrictions that it was pointless to applySomeday Washington would learn; that day would
    not come in his lifetime, so six grandchildren had made the decision for himThe empathetic new
    Medusa had beckoned with generosity, and in his bitterness he had come running
    He rationalized that it was no more an unethical decision on his part than those made every year
    by scores of Pentagon personnel who walked out of Arlington and into the corporate arms of their
    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
    175
    old friends the defense contractorsAs an army colonel once said to him, “It’s work now and get
    paid later,” and God knew that one Steven DeSole worked like hell for his country, but his country
    hardly reciprocated in kindHe hated the name Medusa, though, and rarely if ever used it because it
    was a symbol from another time, ominous and mislead
    Sunday, December 26th, 2010
    5:55 pm
    @@@@@ "You talking about bribes?" My new young
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    "You talking about bribes?" My new young employee
    looked glum"Well, I'm sure it happens,
    especially down here
    "Don't be so cynicalSometimes it's just a matter
    of friendshipYour builders, your contractors,
    your building-code inspectors, even your OSHA
    guysthey usually drink in the same bars, and
    they all went to the same schools
    "Reform schools, in some cases
    Jack said, "They condemned a couple beach houses
    at the north end of Casey Key when the erosion
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    there sped upOne of em actually did fall into
    the drink
    "Well, as you say, I'll probably hear it groaning,
    and it looks safe enough for the time beingLet's
    get my stuff inside
    I opened my door, got out, then staggered as my
    bad hip locked upIf I hadn't gotten my crutch
    planted in time, I would have said hello to Big
    Pink by sprawling on her stone doorstep
    "I'll get the stuff in," Jack said"You better go
    in and sit down, MrA cold drink
    wouldn't hurt, eitherYou look really tired
    iv
    The traveling had caught up with me, and I was
    more than tiredBy the time I eased into a living
    room armchair (listing to the left, as usual, and
    trying to keep my right leg as straight as
    possible), I was willing to admit to myself that I
    was exhausted
    Yet not homesick, at least not yetAs Jack went
    back and forth, stowing my bags in the bigger of
    the two bedrooms and putting the laptop on the
    75
    desk in the smaller one, my eye kept being drawn
    to the living room's western wall, which was all
    glass, and the Florida room beyond it, and the
    Gulf of Mexico beyond thatIt was a vast blue
    expanse, flat as a plate on that hot November
    afternoon, and even with the sliding glass windowwall
    shut, I could hear its mild and steady
    sighingI thought, It has no memoryIt was an
    odd thought, and strangely optimisticWhen it
    came to memory - and anger - I still had my issue
    Saturday, December 25th, 2010
    5:55 pm
    @@@@@ Another long silence “Aren't you going to
    @@@@@
    Another long silence
    “Aren't you going to go eat?” Jared asked
    “I think I'll hang out here for a bit How about you?”
    Jared didn't answer“Is there something you want to say to me, Jared?”
    “The girl in there…” Jared said slowly
    “Yes?”
    “That body doesn't belong to her
    “Your point?”
    Jared's voice was hard when he answered“Keep your hands off it
    A low chuckle from Ian“Jealous, Howe?”
    “That's not really the issue Ian was sarcastic now
    “Wanda seems to be, more or less, cooperating with MelanieIt sounds like they're almost… on
    friendly termsBut obviously Wanda's making the decisionsWhat if it were you? How would
    you feel if you were Melanie? What if you were the one… invaded that way? What if you were
    trapped, and someone else was telling your body what to do? If you couldn't speak for yourself?
    Wouldn't you want your wishes–as much as they could be known–respected? At the very least
    by other humans?”
    “Okay, okayI'll keep that in mind
    “What do you mean, you'llkeep that in mind? ” Jared demanded
    “I mean that I'll think about it
    “There's nothing to think about,” Jared retortedI knew how he would look from the sound of
    his voice–teeth clenched, jaw strained“The body and the person locked inside it belong tome”
    “You're sure that Melanie still feels the –”
    “Melanie will always be mineAnd I will always be hers
    Melanie and I were suddenly at opposite ends of the spectrumShe was flying, el
    Friday, December 24th, 2010
    5:47 pm
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    Red was thinking once more of the bodies in the drawHe felt a curious fascination as he remembered how they had lookedA wash of fear penetrated through the whirling in his mind, and he looked over his shoulder again"Why don't we go looking for souvenirs?" he shouted omega replica watches furiously
    "Where?"
    "There ought to be some dead Japs around here," Red saidHe resisted the impulse to look behind him"They is, they is," he said suddenly"Down 'bout two-three hunnerd yards from that mess sergeant's still, they was a battleAh 'member we passed right by it, jus' right by gucci fabric it"Night we go up to the river, and the Japs comeThat night Japs come down almost to here
    "Tha's right," Wilson said"Ah heard they had tanks down 'bout here
    "Well, let's go lookin' then," Red muttered"We rate a couple of souvenirs"If they's one goddam thing Ah gotta do when Ah prada clutch get likkered up it's to start roamin' round He stretched his arms"Well, men, let's git goin'
    The others looked at him dumblyThey had settled into a stupor and their conversation had been random and purposelessThey had talked without thinking of what they said, and now they were necklace chanel bewildered by Wilson's energy"Come on, men," he repeated
    They obeyed him because they were passive and would have obeyed anybody who told them to do somethingWilson picked up his rifle, and the others, seeing him do this, slung theirs also
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    Thursday, December 23rd, 2010
    5:47 pm
    @@@@@ "At midnight the masks come off That's
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    "At midnight the masks come off
    That's about four minutes from nowWe'll waltz to visibility, then
    leave Rhett took her in his arms, and Scarlett forgot her anger,
    forgot the peril of unmasking before her enemies, forgot the world
    Nothing was important but that he was here and holding her
    Scarlett lay awake most of the night, struggling to understand what
    had
    happenedEverything was fine at the Ball When twelve o'clock
    came, DrMeade said that everyone should take off their masks, and
    Rhett was laughing when he yanked off hisbeard, tooI'd take an oath
    he was enjoying himselfHe kind of saluted the doctor and bowed to
    MrsMeade and then he whisked me out of there as easy as a greased
    pigHe didn't even notice the way people turned their backs on me,
    at
    least he didn't let on if he didHe was grinning from ear to ear
    And in the carriage coming home it was too dark to see his face1 but
    his voice sounded fineI didn't know what to say, but I hardly even
    had to think about itHe asked how things were at Tara and if
    his lawyer was paying my bills on time, and by the time I answered,
    we
    were homeThat's when it happenedHe was here, right downstairs
    in
    the hallwayThen he just said good night, he was tired, and went up
    to
    his dressing roomHe wasn't hateful or cold, he just said good night
    and went upstairsWhat does that mean? Why did he bother to come
    all
    this way? Not just to go to a party when it's party time in
    CharlestonNot because it was a masquerade-he could go to Mardi
    Gras
    if he wanted toAfter all, he has lots of friends in New OrleansHe
    said "to keep down goss
    Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010
    5:59 pm
    @@@@@I myself am monitoring all aircraft
    @@@@@I myself am monitoring all
    aircraft arriving here and sending the manifests on to Martinique, to a famous surgeon, no less! Of
    course, at the moment all flights are on hold, orders from Government House
    “The American military helicopter?” asked the awed Pritchard
    “Shhh! It, too, is a secret, everything is secret
    “Then it is a very loud and apparent secret, my esteemed UnclePeople are on the beach
    watching it now
    “What?”
    “It’s hereSaint Jay and the children are boarding as we speakAlso that dreadful Mrs
    Cooper—”
    “I must call Paris at once,” interrupted the immigration officer, disconnecting the line
    “Paris?” repeated Mr“How inspiring! How privileged we are!”
    “I didn’t tell him everything,” said Peter Holland quietly, shaking his head as he spoke“I
    wanted to—I intended to—but it was in his eyes, in his own words actuallyHe said that he’d louse
    us up in a minute if it would help Bourne and his wife Charles Casset nodded; he sat in the chair in front of the director’s desk, a
    computer printout of a long-buried classified file in his hand“When you read this you’ll
    understandAlex really did try to kill Bourne in Paris years ago—his closest friend and he tried to
    put a bullet in his head for all the wrong reasons
    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
    304
    “Conklin’s on his way to Paris now
    “That’s on your head, PeterI wouldn’t have done it, not without strings
    “I couldn’t refuse him
    “Of course you couldHe brought us Medusa—and from here on, Charlie, that’s all that concerns us
    “I understand, Director Holland,” said Casset coldly“And I assume that due to foreign
    entanglements you’re working backwards into a domestic conspiracy that should be incontestably
    established before you alert the guardians of domestic accord, namely, the Federal Bureau
    “Are you threatening me, you lowlife?”
    “I certainly am, Pete
    Sunday, December 19th, 2010
    5:56 pm
    @@@@@ The picture was of a horse looking over a
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    The picture was of a horse looking over a fence
    railIt wore an unlikely (and un-equine) smile
    In the foreground, back-to, was a little girl with
    lots of golden ringlets, holding out a carrot the
    size of a shotgun for the smiling horse to eatTo
    either side, bracketing the picture almost like
    theater curtains, were palm treesAbove were
    puffy white clouds and a great big sun, shooting
    off happy-rays of light
    It was a child's picture, but the talent that had
    created it was beyond doubtThe horse had a joie
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    de vivre that made the smile the punchline of a
    cheerful jokeYou could put a dozen art students
    in a room, tell them to execute a happy horse, and
    I was willing to bet not one of them would be able
    to match the success of that pictureEven the
    oversized carrot felt not like a mistake but part
    of the giggle, an intensifier, an artistic steroid
    "It's not a joke," I muttered, bending closer
    only bending closer did no goodI was seeing this
    picture through four aggravating levels of
    obfuscation: the photograph, the newspaper
    reproduction of the photograph, the Xerox of the
    newspaper reproduction of the photographOver eighty years of it, if I had the
    math right
    "What's not a joke?" Wireman asked
    "The way the size of the horse is exaggeratedIt's a child's cry
    of glee, Wireman!"
    "A hoax is what it isShe would have
    been two! A child of two can't even make stickfigures
    and call em mommy and daddy, can she?"
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    "Was what happened to Candy Brown a hoax? Or what
    about the bullet that used to be in your brain?
    The one that's now gone?"
    He was silent
    I tapped CHILD PRODIGY"Look, they even had the
    right fancy term for itDo you suppose if she'd
    been poor and black, they would have called her
    PICKANINNY FREAK and stuck her in a sideshow
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    "Is that what hap-" I stopped, my eye caught by
    the blurry photograph againNow it was big sis I
    was looking at
    "What?" Wireman asked, and his tone was What now?
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    Saturday, December 18th, 2010
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    Last night, I took a break from writing and watched a TV program on the history of a young man named Alexander Graham BellBell had just Tiffany Necklace patented his telephone, and was having growing pains because the demand for his new invention was so strongNeeding a bigger company, he then went to the giant at that time, Western Union, and asked them if they would buy his patent and his tiny companyHe wanted $100,000 for the whole packageThe president of Western Union scoffed at him and turned him down, saying the price was ridiculousA multi-billion-dollar industry emerged, and AT&T was born
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    Slowly, cautiously, he examined the periphery of the groveThe Japanese had left, and by the number of empty dior bag ration cartons, the size of their latrine trench, he estimated that they must have made up a full platoonRecon had run into much less than that; it could mean only that most of their platoon had been withdrawn a day or two before, and the men who had attacked them were a rear guard, who had retreated up the pass shortly afterward
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    Saturday, December 11th, 2010
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    shouldn't go
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    whistling
    "Wearing o' the Green
    "Where have you been?" Pierre Robillard demanded
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    I like them very much She stalked out of the roomBut she did see
    to a fresh supper tray for her grandfather before she went up to her
    room"What about your supper, Miss Scarlett?" Pansy asked
    "You wants I should fetch you a tray upstairs?"
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    any supper
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    want now is some sleepAll that crying wore me
    Friday, December 10th, 2010
    5:58 pm
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    see who was watching my moment of disgrace
    The Seeker from Chicago had her cell phone in her hand, trying to decide which authority to
    callI took one good look at her and bent over the leaves againEmpty stomach or no, she was
    the last person I needed to see right now
    But, as my stomach heaved uselessly, I realized that there would be a reason for her presence
    Oh, no! Oh, no no no no no no!
    “Why?” I gasped, panic and sickness stealing the volume from my voice“Why are you here?
    What's happened?” The Comforter's very uncomforting words pounded in my head
    I stared at the hands gripping the collar of the Seeker's black suit for two seconds before I
    realized they were mine
    “Stop!” she said, and there was outrage on her face
    My hands jerked open and landed against my face“Excuse me!” I huffedI don't
    know what I was doing
    The Seeker scowled at me and smoothed the front of her outfit“You're not well, and I suppose
    I startled you
    “I wasn't expecting to see you,” I whispered“Why are you here?”
    “Let's get you to a Healing facility before we speakIf you have a flu, you should get it healed
    There's no point in letting it wear your body down
    “I don't have a flu
    “Did you eat bad food? You must report where you got it
    Her prying was very annoying“I did not eat bad food, eith
    Tuesday, December 7th, 2010
    5:58 pm
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    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
    It was the only one still long enough to afford a
    decent gripIt must not have been her favorite
    991
    colorOr maybe it was just that Duma's greens
    were darker
    "All right, now what?"
    "Draw me in the kitchenPut me up agin the
    breadbox, that do fine
    "On the counter, do you mean?"
    "Think I was talkin bout on the flo?"
    "Christ," Wireman mutteredThe voice had been
    changing steadily with each exchange; now it
    wasn't Jack's at allAnd whose was it, given the
    fact that in its prime the only ventriloquism
    available to make the doll speak had been provided
    by a little girl's imagination? I thought it had
    been Nan Melda's then, and that we were listening
    to a version of that voice now
    As soon as I began to work, the itch swept down my
    missing arm, defining it, making it thereI
    sketched her sitting against an old-fashioned
    breadbox, then drew her legs dangling over the
    edge of the counterWith no pause or hesitation -
    something deep inside me, where the pictures came
    from, said that to hesitate would be to break the
    spell while it was still forming, while it was
    still fragile - I went on and drew the little girl
    992
    standing beside the counterStanding beside the
    counter and looking upLittle four-year-old girl
    in a pinaforeI could not have told you what a
    pinafore was before I drew one over little
    Libbit's dress as she stood there in the kitchen
    beside her doll, as she stood there looking up, as
    she stood there
    Shhhhh-
    -with one finger to her lips
    Now, moving quicker than ever, the pencil racing,
    I added Nan Melda, seeing her for the first time
    outside that photograph where she was holding the
    red picnic basket bunched in her armsNan Melda
    bent over the little girl, her face set and angry
    No, not angryvi
    Scared
    That's what Nan Melda is, scared near to death
    She knows something is going on, Libbit knows
    something is going on, and the twins know, too -
    Tessie and Lo-Lo are as scared as she isEven
    that fool Shannington knows something's wron
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    you seemed sensible of the wonderful improvement that has taken
    place in her looks within the last six weeksYou see her every day,
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    creature from what she was in the autumnShe was then merely
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    prettyI used to think she had neither complexion nor countenance;
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    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
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    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
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    say, ‘I will not like you, I am determined not to like you’; and I say
    she shall
    “Foolish fellow! And so this is her attraction after all! This it is,
    her not caring about you, which gives her such a soft skin, and
    makes her so much taller, and produces all these charms and graces!
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    “It can be but for a fortnight,” said Henry; “and if a fortnight can
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