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    Monday, January 3rd, 2011
    9:15 am
    @@@@@She wished that it could last forever, and
    @@@@@She wished that it
    could last forever, and she begged Miss Eleanor to tell about Cousin
    Townsend"Townsend's not really a cousin-cousin, you know, only a
    third cousin twice removed, but he is the direct descendent of
    Great-GreatGrandfather Ellinton, only son of an eldest son of an eldest
    sonSo he inherited that original land grant, and the Ellinton
    gambler's fever, and the Ellinton luckThey were always lucky, the
    EllintonsExcept for one thing: there's another Ellinton family
    trait, the boys are always cross-eyedTownsend married an
    extremely
    beautiful girl from a fine Philadelphia family-Philadelphia called it
    the wedding of beauty and the beast
    But the girl's father was a lawyer and a very sensible man about
    property, and Townsend was fabulously richTownsend and his wife
    settled in BaltimoreThen, of course, the War cameTownsend's wife
    went running home to her family the minute Townsend went off to join
    General Lee's armyShe was a Yankee, after all, and Townsend would
    more than likely get killedHe couldn't shoot a barn, much less a
    barn door, because of his cross eyesHowever, he still had the
    Ellinton luckHe never got anything worse than chilblains although he
    served all the way through to Appomattox
    Meanwhile, his wife's three brothers and her father were all killed,
    fighting in the Union ArmySo she inherited everything piled up by
    her careful father and his careful ancestors
    Townsend's living like a king in Philadelphia and doesn't care a fig
    that all his property in Savannah was confiscated by Sherman
    Did you see him, Rhett? How is he?"
    "More cross-eyed than ever, with two cross-eyed sons and a daughter
    that, thank God, takes after her mother Scarlett hardly heard
    Rhett's
    answer"Did you say the Ellintons were from Savannah, Miss Eleanor?
    My mother was from Savannah," she said eagerlyThe crisscross of
    relations that was so much a part of Southern life had long been a
    frustrating lack in her ownEveryone she knew had a network of
    cousins and uncles and aunts that covered generations and hundreds
    of
    milesPauline and Eulalie had no childrenGerald
    O'Hara's brothers in Savannah were childless, tooThere must be lots
    of O'Haras still in Ireland, but that did her no good, and all the
    Robillards except her grandfather were gone from Savanna
    Sunday, January 2nd, 2011
    9:15 am
    @@@@@Exchange for exchange, like walking across a
    @@@@@Exchange for exchange, like walking across a bridge with our respective prisoners in tow
    The money for the information
    “You’re crazy, SantosMy clients don’t expose themselves that wayYou just lost the rest of the
    three million
    “Why not try them? They could always hire a blind, couldn’t they? An innocent tourist with a
    false bottom in his or her Louis Vuitton carryon? No alarms are set off with paperTry it! It is the
    only way you’ll get what you want, monsieur
    “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 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,
    absently perhaps, as if the repeated ritual might bring about a repetition of his appearance so long
    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
    Bourne thirteen years ago: When running or hunting, analyze your options but remember your first
    It’s usually the cleanest and the bestMost of the time you’ll take it
    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-heade
    Saturday, January 1st, 2011
    9:15 am
    @@@@@Together they turned her walker away from
    @@@@@Together they turned her walker away
    from the play-table, and she began to clump with
    surprising speed toward a door in the far end of
    the roomHe walked watchfully beside her
    Her "television room" was dominated by a big flatscreen
    SamsungAt the other end of the room was a
    stack of expensive sound componentsI hardly
    noticed either oneI was looking at the framed
    sketch on the wall above the shelves of CDs, and
    for a few seconds I forgot to breathe
    The sketch was just pencil, augmented by two
    scarlet threads, probably added with nothing more
    than a plain red ballpoint pen - the kind teachers
    267
    use to grade papersThese not-quite-offhand
    scribbles had been laid along the horizon-line of
    the Gulf to indicate sunset
    They were genius writ smallIt was my horizon,
    the one I saw from Little PinkI knew that just
    as I knew the artist had been listening to the
    shells grind steadily beneath him as he turned
    blank white paper into what his eye saw and his
    mind translatedOn the horizon was a ship,
    probably a tankerIt could have been the very one
    I'd drawn my first evening at Number 13 Duma Key
    RoadThe style was nothing at all like mine, but
    the choice of subject-matter was damn near
    identical
    Scribbled almost carelessly at the bottom: Salv
    Dalí
    iv
    Miss Eastlake - Elizabeth - had her cigarette
    while Oprah questioned Kirstie Alley on the always
    fascinating subject of weight-lossWireman
    produced egg salad sandwiches, which were
    deliciousMy eyes kept straying to the framed
    268
    Dalí sketch, and I kept thinking - of course -
    Hello, DalíPhil came on and began
    berating a couple of fat ladies in the audience
    who had apparently volunteered to be berated, I
    told Wireman and Elizabeth that I really ought to
    be getting back
    Elizabeth used the remote to silence DrPhil,
    then held out the book the remote had been sitting
    onHer eyes looked both humble and hopeful
    "Wireman says you'll come and read to me on some
    afternoons, Edmund, is that true?"
    We're forced to make some decisions in a split
    second, and I made one thenI decided not to look
    at Wireman, who was sitting to Elizabeth's left
    The acuity she'd exhibited at her play-table was
    fading, even I could see that, but I thought there
    was still quite a lot l
    Friday, December 31st, 2010
    9:22 am
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    Of course, it made sense to be afraid that her disappearance would bring the other Seekers
    down on usEveryone was afraid of thatSpying on the search for my body, the humans had
    seen how vocal she was about her convictionsShe'd been trying to convince the other Seekers
    that there were humans hiding in this desert wastelandNone seemed to take her seriouslyThey
    had gone home; she was the only Gucci Indy Bag one who kept looking
    But now she'd vanished in the middle of her searchThat changed everything
    Her vehicle had been moved far away, left in the desert on the other side of TucsonIt looked
    as though she'd disappeared in the same way it was believed I had: pieces of her bag left torn
    nearby, the snacks she'd carried with her chewed open and scatteredWould the other souls
    accept such a gucci fashion coincidence?
    We already knew they would notWould the search become
    more intense?
    But to be afraid of the Seeker herself… That didn't make much senseShe was physically
    insignificant, probably smaller than JamieI was stronger and faster than she wasI was
    surrounded by friends and allies, and she, inside these caves at least, was all aloneTwo guns,
    the rifle and her own Glock–the very gun Ian had once envied, spy bag fendi the gun that had killed my friend
    Wes–were trained on her at every momentOnly one thing had kept her alive until now, and it
    couldn't save her for long
    Jeb had thought I might want to talk to her
    Now that I was back, she was condemned to die within hours whether I spoke to her or not
    So why did I feel as though I was at the disadvantage? Why this strange premonition thatshe
    would be the one to omega replica watches walk away from our confrontation?
    I hadn't decided if I wanted to talk to herAt least, that was what I'd told Jeb
    Without a doubt, I didnot want to talk to herI was terrified to ever see her face again–a face
    that, no matter how I tried, I could not imagine looking frightened
    But if I told them I had no desire for conversation, Aaron would shoot herIt would be like I'd
    given him the order to Tiffany Necklace fire
    Thursday, December 30th, 2010
    9:14 am
    @@@@@ So are you, we're all phoniesThe thing is
    @@@@@
    So are you, we're all phoniesThe thing is to get out and join the movement
    What's the matter, Hearn asks, you going political on me?
    I'm not political, that's bullshit, everything's bullshitHe waves his arm sweepingly
    Hearn, cupping his chin in his handYou know when nothing else is left I'm going to become a fairy, not a goddam little nance, you understand, but a nice upright pillar of the community, live on green lawnsNever a dull moment, man or woman, it's all the same to you, exciting
    Jansen's head lollsNone of your machine-made copulations for meYou know the trouble with Americans is they don't know how to screw, there's no art in our lives, every intellectual has a Babbitt in the closetOh, I like that one, I like itCan it for me, will you, Jansen?
    We're all neurotic
    For a little while it is all quite gloriousThey are wise and aware and sick and the world outside is corrupt and they are the only ones who know itWeltschmertzen, mahogany melancholies, and Weltanschauungen are the only currency
    But it does not always workI'm a phony, Hearn says, and there are times when it goes beyond the flippancy, the easy depression, the almost gratifying self-disgustSometimes there are things which can be done about it
    He broods about this through the summer, has a fight with his father
    I'll tell you, Robert, I don't know where you picked up all this union idea guff, but if you think they ain't a bunch of gangsters, if you think my men weren't better off depending on me, when Jesus Christ I've helped them out of many a scrape, and Christmas bonuses, Why don't you stay out of this, you don't know what the hell you're talking about
    I resent that, but you never could understand what paternalism is
    Maybe I don't being as it's a big word, but it seems to me it's easy enough to bite the hand that feeds ya
    Well, you don't have to worry about that any more
    But after a further series of supplications and quarrels, he goes back to school early, gets a job washing dishes in the Georgian, and keeps it once classes have startedThere are movements toward reconciliation; Ina comes out to Boston for the first time in three years, and a grudged truce is achie
    Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
    9:15 am
    @@@@@"I assume you won't object if I smoke His
    @@@@@"I assume you won't object if I
    smoke His long fingers dipped into the interior pocket of his coat
    and extracted a cherootWhy ,am I shut up down
    here
    in the dark? I want to go upstairs in the sun
    "Above," Rhett corrected automatically"This is a rather small
    craft
    The crew is black, Pansy is black, you are white and a womanThey
    get
    the cockpit, you get the cabinPansy can roll her eyes at the two
    men, laugh at their somewhat indelicate gallantries, and they'll all
    three have a pleasant timeYour presence would spoil it"So at the
    same time that the underclass is enjoying the journey, you and I, the
    privileged elite, will be thoroughly miserable cooped up in each
    other's company while you continue to pout and whine
    "I'm not pouting and whining! And I'll thank you not to talk to me as
    if I was a child!" Scarlett pulled in her lower lipShe hated it
    when Rhett made her feel foolish
    "What was that quarry we stopped at?"
    "That, my dear, was the salvation of Charleston and my passport back
    into the bosom of my peopleIt is a phosphate mineThere are
    dozens
    of them scattered along both rivers He lit his cigar with prolonged
    appreciation and the smoke spiraled upward to the porthole"I see
    your eyes gleaming, ScarlettIt's not the same as a gold mineYou
    can't make coins or jewelry out of phosphateBut, ground and
    washed
    and treated with certain chemicals, it makes the best quick-acting
    fertilizer in the worldThere are customers waiting for as much of it
    as we can produce
    "So you're getting richer than everBut, more to the point, this is respectable, Charleston
    moneyI can spend as much of my ill-gotten, speculator profit as I
    like now without disapprovalEveryone can tell themselves that it
    comes from phosphates, even though the mine is puny in size
    Monday, December 27th, 2010
    9:15 am
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    Admiral Peter Holland, currently director of the Central Intelligence Agency, voice confirmation to
    be verified if necessaryThis is an interview with an informer we’ll call John Smith, voice
    distortion to follow on interagency master tape, identification in the DCI’s classified filesSmith, we’re going to cut through the silver chanel bullshit to the essential questionsI’ll generalize
    them as much as possible for your protection, but you’ll know exactly what I’m referring to and I
    expect specific answersWhom do you work for, MrSmith?”
    “Atlas Coin Vending Machines, Long Island City,” replied Dellacroce, his words slurred and
    spoken gruffly
    “Who owns it?”
    “I dunno who owns itMost of us work from home—some fifteen, maybe twenty guys, you
    know what I mean? We louis vuitton prices service the machines and send in our reports
    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
    291
    Holland glanced over at Conklin; both men smiledWith one answer the mafioso had placed
    himself within a large circle of potential informersNicolo was not new to the game“Who signs
    your paychecks, MrLouis DeFazio, a very legitimate businessman, to d’best of my knowledgeHe gives us
    our assignments
    “Do you know where he lives?”
    “Brooklyn HeightsOn gucci hobo handbag the river, I think someone told me
    “What was your destination when our personnel intercepted you?”
    Dellacroce winced, briefly closing his swollen eyes before answering“One of those drunk-anddope
    tanks somewhere south of Philly—which you already know, MrBig Shot, ’cause you found
    the map in the car
    Holland angrily reached for the recorder, snapping it off“You’re on your way to Hatteras, you
    son of a bitch!”
    “Hey, you get your omega seamaster gold info your way, I give it mine, okay? There was a map—there’s always a
    map—and each of us has to take those cockamamy back roads to the joint like we were driving the
    president or even a don superiore to an Appalachian meetYou gimme that message pad and the
    pencil, I’ll give you the location right down to the brass plate on the stone gate The mafioso
    raised his uncased right arm and jabbed his index finger at the DCI“It’ll be accurate, purse logo
    Sunday, December 26th, 2010
    9:23 am
    @@@@@I found another woman with
    @@@@@I found another woman with long
    373
    painted hair, and she was betterThat hair was a
    little too long and a little too dark, but -
    No it wasn't, because Pam had been to the beauty
    parlor, sometimes known as the Midlife Crisis
    Fountain of Youth
    I held the china figure, wishing I had a house to
    put her in and a book for her to read
    I tried to switch the figurine to my right hand -
    perfectly natural because my right hand was there,
    I could feel it - and it fell to the table with a
    clackIt didn't break, but Elizabeth's eyes
    opened"Dick! Was that the train? Did it whistle?
    Did it cry?"
    "Not yet," I said"Why don't you nap a little?"
    "Oh, you'll find it on the second floor landing,"
    she said as if I had asked her something else, and
    closed her eyes again"Call me when the train
    comesI'm so sick of this stationAnd watch for
    the big boy, that cuntlicker could be anywhereMy right arm itched horriblyI
    reached into my back pocket, hoping my notebook
    was thereI'd left it on the kitchen
    counter back at Big PinkBut that made me think
    of the Palacio kitchenThere was a notepad for
    374
    messages on the counter where I'd left the tinI
    hurried back, snatched up the pad, stuck it
    between my teeth, then almost ran back to the
    China Parlor, already pulling my Uni-ball pen from
    my breast pocketI sat down in my wingback chair
    and began to sketch the china doll rapidly while
    the rain whipped the windows and Elizabeth sat
    leaning in her wheelchair across the table from me,
    dozing with her mouth ajarThe wind-driven
    shadows of the palms flew around the walls like
    bats
    It didn't take long, and I realized something as I
    worked: I was pouring the itch out through the tip
    of the pen, decanting it onto the pageThe woman
    in my drawing was the china figure, but she was
    also PamThe woman was Pam, but she was also the
    china figureHer hair was longer than when I'd
    last seen her, and spread out on her shoulders
    She was sitting in
    (the BURN, the CHAR)
    a chairWhat chair? A rocking chairHadn't been
    any such item in our house when I left it, but
    there was no
    Saturday, December 25th, 2010
    9:23 am
    @@@@@ “What are we after?” He was intense,
    @@@@@
    “What are we after?” He was intense, already shifting into his mission mode
    “I'll explain on the wayWe don't have a lot of time
    “Can I come?” Jamie said
    “No!” Jared and I said together
    Jamie frowned and let me go, sinking down onto the mattress and crossing his legsHe put his
    face in his hands and sulkedI couldn't look directly at him before I ducked out of the roomI
    was already yearning to sit beside him, to hold him tight and forget this whole mess
    Jared followed as I retraced my path through the south tunnel
    “Why this way?” he asked
    “I…” He would know if I tried to lie or evade“I don't want to run into anyoneJeb, Aaron, or
    Brandt, particularly
    “Why?”
    “I don't want to have to explain myself to them
    He was quiet, trying to make sense of my answer
    I changed the subject“Do you know where Lily is? I don't think she should be aloneShe
    seems…”
    “Ian's with her
    Ian would help Lily–he was exactly what she needed nowWho would help Ian when… ? I
    shook my head, shaking the thought away
    “What are we in such a hurry to get?” Jared asked me
    I took a deep breath before I answered him
    The south tunnel was blackI could not see his fac
    Friday, December 24th, 2010
    9:15 am
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    After a hurried lunch, Major Dalleson returned to his G-3 tent, and began to draw up the plans for the Botoi invasionHe sat himself down before his desk, opened his collar, sharpened a few pencils with slow absorbed motions, his heavy lower lip dangling pensively and moistly, and then he selected a blank piece of paper and wrote "Operation Coda" in large block letters at the top of his sheetHe sighed pleasurably and lit a cigar, diverted momentarily by the word "coda," which was unfamiliar to him"Code, it means probably," he muttered to himself, and then forgot about itSlowly, replica gucci laboriously, he forced himself to concentrate on the work before himIt was a problem for which he was quite suited
    A more imaginative man would have loathed the assignment, for it consisted essentially of composing long lists of men and equipment and creating a timetableIt demanded the same kind of patience that is needed to construct a crossword puzzleBut Dalleson relished the first portion of the work before him because he knew he could do it, and there were other kinds of work about which he was not so certainThis was the type of job that could be managed by following the procedures to motorcycle balenciaga be found in one Field Manual or another, and Dalleson had the kind of satisfaction a tone-deaf person might know in recognizing a piece of music
    Dalleson began by estimating the number of trucks that would be necessary to move the invasion troops from their front line positions down to the beachSince the frontal attack would undoubtedly be in progress then, it was impossible to decide now which troops could be usedThat would depend on the future situation, but it had to be one of the four rifle battalions on the island, and Dalleson separated it into four isolated problems, allotting chanel white bag a different number of trucks for each possibilityThere would be trucks needed for the land attack, and the assignment of them could be handled by G-4Dalleson looked up and scowled, staring at the clerks and officers in his tent
    "Hey, Hearn," he shouted
    "Yes?"
    "Bring this over to Hobart, and tell him to work out where we can draw the trucks from
    Hearn nodded, took the piece of paper Dalleson handed him, and strolled out of the tent, whistling to himselfDalleson watched him with a puzzled and slightly belligerent expressionHearn irritated him slightlyHe could not express it, but he cartier must 21 was a little uncomfortable with him, a little uncertainHe always had the feeling that Hearn was laughing at him, and he had nothing concrete to fasten it uponDalleson had been a little surprised when the General had transferred Hearn, but it had been none of his affair, and he had assigned Hearn to supervising the draftsmen in their map overlays, and forgot about him almost entirelyHearn had done his work well enough, quietly enough, and with over a dozen men in the tent almost all the time, Dalleson had paid little attention to himLately it seemed as if Hearn had introduced a new Cartier watch tank humo
    Thursday, December 23rd, 2010
    9:15 am
    @@@@@Meet Middleton somewhere in the afternoons
    @@@@@Meet Middleton somewhere
    in the afternoons and pleasure yourself all you like, but don't make
    your husband and his wife and everyone in town watch you two
    panting at
    each other in a ballroom like a dog after a bitch in heat Scarlett
    thought that nothing could be as horrifying as Sally's wordsThe next
    ones proved her wrong"I should warn you, though, that he's not
    very
    good in bedHe's Don Juan in the ballroom but a village idiot once he
    takes off his dancing pumps and tailcoat Sally reached over to the
    tray and shook the teapot
    "If you let this steep much longer, we'll be able to tan hides with
    it
    Do you want me to pour?" She peered closely at Scarlett's face
    "My God," she said slowly, "you're as ignorant as a newborn babe,
    aren't you? I am sorry, Scarlett, I didn't realizeHere-let me give
    you a cup of tea with lots of sugar Scarlett drew back into her
    chairShe wanted to cry, to cover her earsShe'd admired Sally,
    been proud to be a friend of hers, and Sally- had turned out to be no
    better than trash! 'My poor child," said Sally, "if I had known, I
    would have been a lot easier on youAs it is, consider this an
    accelerated educationYou're in Charleston and married to a
    Charlestonian, ScarlettYou can't afford to wrap your backwoods
    innocence around you as a shieldThis is an old city with an old
    civilizationAn essential part of being civilized is consideration
    for the sensibilities of othersYou can do anything you like,
    provided you do it discreetlyThe unpardonable sin is to force your
    peccadilloes down the throats of your friendsYou must make it
    possible for others to pretend they don't know what you're doing
    Scarlett couldn't believe what she was hearingThis was not at all
    like pretending that initialed napkins belonged to someone elseAlthough she had married three times while she was
    in
    love with someone else, she had never thought of physically betraying
    any one of her husbandsShe could yearn for Ashley, imagine
    Ashley's
    embraces, but she would never have sneaked off to meet him for an
    hour
    in
    Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010
    9:25 am
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    He was initially trained there and that’s what he came back to do—to blow the place up! It’s his
    revenge! Get down, we’ve got to get up there!”
    “No, you’re wrong,” broke in Benjamin, quickly lowering himself into the seat as Bourne started
    the engine and yanked the jeep into gear“ ‘Spain’s’ no more than five or six miles from here
    Those fires are a lot farther away
    “Just show me the fastest route,” said Jason, pressing the accelerator to the floor
    Under the trainer’s swiftly roving eyes accompanied by sudden shouts of “Turn here!” and “Go
    right!” and “Straight down this road!” they raced through “Paris,” and north into successive sectors
    labeled “Marseilles,” “Montbéliard,” “Le chloe white Havre,” “Strasbourg” and so many others, circling town
    squares and passing quaint streets and miniaturized city blocks, until finally they were in sight of
    the “Spanish” borderThe closer they came, the louder were the booms in the distance, the brighter
    the yellow night skyThe guards at the gate were furiously manning their telephones and hand-held
    radios; the two-note blasts of sirens joined the shouting and the screaming as police cars and fire
    engines appeared seemingly out of nowhere, racing into the streets of “Madrid” on their way to the
    next northern border crossing
    “What’s happening?” yelled Benjamin, leaping from the jeep and dropping all pretense of
    Novgorod training new cartier by speaking Russian“I’m senior staff!” he added, slipping the card into the
    release equipment, snapping the barrier up“Tell me!”
    “Insanity, comrade!” shouted an officer from the gatehouse windowIt’s as if
    the earth went crazy! First ‘Germany,’ all over there are explosions and fires in the streets and
    buildings going up in flamesThe ground trembles, and we are told it’s some kind of massive
    earthquakeThen it happens in ‘Italy’—‘Rome’ is torched, and in the ‘Greek’ sector ‘Athens’ and
    the port of ‘Piraeus’ are filled with fires everywhere and still the explosions continue, the streets in
    flames!”
    “What does Capital Headquarters say?”
    “They don’t know what to say! The earthquake prada clutch nonsense was just that—nonsenseEveryone’s
    in panic, issuing orders and then countermanding them Another wall phone rang inside the
    gatehouse; the officer of the guard picked it up and listened, then instantly screamed at the top of
    his lungs“Madness, it’s complete madness! Are you certain?”
    “What is it?” roared Benjamin, rushing to the window
    “ ‘Egypt!’ ” he screamed, his ear pressed to the telephone‘Cairo’ and ‘Tel
    Aviv’—fires everywhere, bombs everywhere! No one can keep up with the devastation; the trucks
    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
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    crash into one another in the narrow streetsThe hydrants are blown up; water flows in the gutters
    but the streets are still in men wallet gucci flamesAnd some idiot just got on the line and asked if the No Smoking
    signs were properly placed while the wooden buildings are on their way to becoming rubble! Idiots
    They are all idiots!”
    “Get back here!” yelled Bourne, having made the jeep lurch through the gate“He’s in here
    somewhere! You drive and I’ll—” Jason’s words were cut off by a deafening explosion up ahead in
    the center of “Madrid’s” Paseo del PradoIt was an enormous detonation, lumber and stone arcing
    up into the flaming skyThen, as if the Paseo itself were a living, throbbing immense wall of fire,
    the flames rolled forward, swinging to the left out of the “city” into the road that was the approach
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    Sunday, December 19th, 2010
    9:16 am
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    "Got it!" Jack cried, and actually laughed
    "The fuck you do," Wireman said, stungThen:
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    "Behind the tennis court
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    had drawn the Desert Eagle automatic until it went
    off
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    dropped the handles of the picnic basket and
    jammed the heels of his hands against his ears
    "One dead heron," Wireman said, his voice not
    quite steadyHe prodded the bundle of feathers,
    then flipped it off my boots"For God's sake,
    don't tell Fish and WildlifeShooting one of
    these'd probably cost me fifty grand and five
    years in dolce sale jail
    Saturday, December 18th, 2010
    9:15 am
    @@@@@Let him be applied to, if you please, for
    @@@@@Let
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    than to have a perfect stranger
    Charles Maddox was to be the manTom repeated his resolution
    of going to him early on the morrow; and though Julia, who had
    scarcely opened her lips before, observed, in a sarcastic manner, and
    with a glance first at Maria and then at Edmund, that “the Mansfield
    theatricals would enliven the whole neighbourhood exceedingly,”
    Edmund still held his peace, and shewed his feelings only by a determined
    gravity
    “I am not very sanguine as to our play,” said Miss Crawford, in an
    undervoice to Fanny, after some consideration; “and I can tell Mr
    Maddox that I shall shorten some of his speeches, and a great many
    of my own, before we rehearse togetherIt will be very disagreeable,
    and by no means what I expected
    132
    Mansfield Park
    CHAPTER XVI
    IT WAS NOT in Miss Crawford’s power to talk Fanny into any real
    forgetfulness of what had passedWhen the evening was over, she
    went to bed full of it, her nerves still agitated by the shock of such
    an attack from her cousin Tom, so public and so persevered in, and
    her spirits sinking under her aunt’s unkind reflection and reproach
    To be called into notice in such a manner, to hear that it was but the
    prelude to something so infinitely worse, to be told that she must
    do what was so impossible as to act; and then to have the charge of
    obstinacy and ingratitude follow it, enforced with such a hint at the
    dependence of her situation, had been too distressing at the time to
    make the remembrance when she was alone much less so, especially
    with the superadded dread of what the morrow might produce in
    continuation of the subjectMiss Crawford had protected her only
    for the time; and if she were applied to again among themselves
    with all the authoritative urgency that Tom and Maria were capable
    of, and Edmund perhaps away, what should she do? She fell asleep
    before she could answer the question, and found it quite as puzzling
    when she awoke the next morningThe little white attic, which had
    continued her sleeping-room ever since her first entering the family,
    proving incompetent to suggest any reply, she had recourse, as soon
    as she was dressed, to another apartment more spacious and more
    meet for walking about in and thinking, and of which she had now
    for some time been almost equally mistressIt had been their schoolroom;
    so called till the Miss Bertrams would not allow it to be called
    so any longer, and inhabited as such to a later periodThere Miss
    Lee had lived, and there they had read and written, and talked and
    laughed, till within the last three years, when she had quitted them
    The room had then become useless, and for some time was quite
    deserted, except by Fanny, when she visited her plants, or wanted
    133
    Jane Austen
    one of the books, which she was still glad to keep there, from the
    deficiency of space and accommodation in her little chamber above:
    but gradually, as her value for the comforts of it increased, she had
    added to her possessions, and spent more of her time there; and
    having nothing to oppose her, had so naturally and so artlessly worked
    herself into it, that it was now generally admitted to be hersThe
    East room, as it had been called ever since Maria Bertram was sixteen,
    was now considered Fanny’s, almost as decidedly as the white
    attic: the smallness of the one making the use of the other so evidently
    reasonable that the Miss Bertrams, with every superiority in
    their own apartments which their own sense of superiority could
    demand, were entirely approving it; and MrsNorris, having stipulated
    for there never being a fire in it on Fanny’s account, was tolerably
    resigned to her having the use of what nobody else wanted,
    though the terms in which she sometimes spoke of the indulgence
    seemed to imply that it was the best room in the house
    The aspect was so favourable that even without a fire it was habitable
    in many an early spring and late autumn morning to such a
    willing mind as Fanny’s; and while there was a gleam of sunshine
    she hoped not to be driven from it entirely, even when winter came
    The comfort of it in her hours of leisure was extremeShe could go
    there after anything unpleasant below, and find immediate consolation
    in some pursuit, or some train of thought at handHer plants,
    her books—of which she had been a collector from the first hour of
    her commanding a shilling—her writing-desk, and her works of
    charity and ingenuity, were all within her reach; or if indisposed for
    employment, if nothing but musing would do, she could scarcely
    see an object in that room which had not an interesting remembrance
    connected with itEverything was a friend, or bore her
    thoughts to a friend; and though there had been sometimes much
    of suffering to her; though her motives had often been misunderstood,
    her feelings disregarded, and her comprehension undervalued;
    though she had known the pains of tyranny, of ridicule, and
    neglect, yet almost every recurrence of either had led to something
    consolatory: her aunt Bertram had spoken for her, or Miss Lee had
    been encouraging, or, what was yet more frequent or more dear,
    Edmund had been her champion and her friend: he had supported
    134
    Mansfield Park
    her cause or explained her meaning, he had told her not to cry, or
    had given her some proof of affection which made her tears delightful;
    and the whole was now so blended together, so harmonised by
    distance, that every former affliction had its charmThe room was
    most dear to her, and she would not have changed its furniture for
    the handsomest in the house, though what had been originally plain
    had suffered all the ill-usage of children; and its greatest elegancies
    and ornaments were a faded footstool of Julia’s work, too ill done
    for the drawing-room, three transparencies, made in a rage for transparencies,
    for the three lower panes of one window, where Tintern
    Abbey held its station between a cave in Italy and a moonlight lake
    in Cumberland, a collection of family profiles, thought unworthy
    of being anywhere else, over the mantelpiece, and by their side, and
    pinned against the wall, a small sketch of a ship sent four years ago
    from the Mediterranean by William, with HAntwerp at the
    bottom, in letters as tall as the mainmast
    To this nest of comforts Fanny now walked down to try its influence
    on an agitated, doubting spirit, to see if by looking at Edmund’s
    profile she could catch any of his counsel, or by giving air to her
    geraniums she might inhale a breeze of mental strength herselfBut
    she had more than fears of her own perseverance to remove: she had
    begun to feel undecided as to what she ought to do; and as she walked
    round the room her doubts were increa
    Friday, December 17th, 2010
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    Both deputy directors began talking at once, as angrily as Alex, but they were stopped by the
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    Saturday, December 11th, 2010
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    Scarlett could only laugh"It's too complicated for me," she
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    Monday, December 6th, 2010
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    That Edmund must be for ever divided from Miss Crawford did
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    the same, her own conviction was insufficientShe thought he did,
    but she wanted to be assured of itIf he would now speak to her
    with the unreserve which had sometimes been too much for her before,
    it would be most consoling; but that she found was not to be
    She seldom saw him: never aloneHe probably avoided being alone
    with herWhat was to be inferred? That his judgment submitted to
    all his own peculiar and bitter share of this family affliction, but that
    it was too keenly felt to be a subject of the slightest communication
    This must be his stateHe yielded, but it was with agonies which did
    not admit of speechLong, long would it be ere Miss Crawford’s
    name passed his lips again, or she could hope for a renewal of such
    confidential intercourse as had beenThey reached Mansfield on Thursday, and it was not
    397
    Jane Austen
    till Sunday evening that Edmund began to talk to her on the subject
    Sitting with her on Sunday evening—a wet Sunday evening—
    the very time of all others when, if a friend is at hand, the heart
    must be opened, and everything told; no one else in the room, except
    his mother, who, after hearing an affecting sermon, had cried
    herself to sleep, it was impossible not to speak; and so, with the
    usual beginnings, hardly to be traced as to what came first, and the
    usual declaration that if she would listen to him for a few minutes, he
    should be very brief, and certainly never tax her kindness in the same
    way again; she need not fear a repetition; it would be a subject prohibited
    entirely: he entered upon the luxury of relating circumstances
    and sensations of the first interest to himself, to one of whose affectionate
    sympathy he was quite convinced
    How Fanny listened, with what curiosity and concern, what pain
    and what delight, how the agitation of his voice was watched, and
    how carefully her own eyes were fixed on any object but himself,
    may be imaginedThe opening was alarmingHe had seen Miss
    CrawfordHe had been invited to see herHe had received a note
    from Lady Stornaway to beg him to call; and regarding it as what
    was meant to be the last, last interview of friendship, and investing
    her with all the feelings of shame and wretchedness which Crawford’s
    sister ought to have known, he had gone to her in such a state of
    mind, so softened, so devoted, as made it for a few moments impossible
    to Fanny’s fears that it should be the lastBut as he proceeded
    in his story, these fears were overShe had met him, he said, with a
    serious—certainly a serious—even an agitated air; but before he had
    been able to speak one intelligible sentence, she had introduced the
    subject in a manner which he owned had shocked him“‘I heard
    you were in town,’ said she; ‘I wanted to see youLet us talk over
    this sad businessWhat can equal the folly of our two relations?’ I
    could not answer, but I believe my looks spoke
    Sometimes how quick to feel! With a graver look and voice she then
    added, ‘I do not mean to defend Henry at your sister’s expense So
    she began, but how she went on, Fanny, is not fit, is hardly fit to be
    repeated to youI cannot recall all her wordsI would not dwell
    upon them if I c
    Saturday, December 4th, 2010
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    “Nothing
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    “Shut up!”
    The telephone rangGates lunged up from the chair and stared at itHe made no move to go to
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