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    Monday, January 3rd, 2011
    2:54 am
    @@@@@A man who had studied him and pretended to
    @@@@@A man who had studied him and
    pretended to speak no French, who had the sign of the Jackal in his eyesWhere you and the
    learned MrPatrick are concerned, we follow the instructions of the Crown governorThe Crown
    governor who took his instructions from a master of death in Paris
    A decade ago, after five productive years with the monseigneur, he had been given a telephone
    number in Argenteuil, six miles north of Paris, that he was never to use except in the most extreme
    emergencyHe had used it only once before, but he would use it nowHe studied the international
    codes, picked up the phone and dialedAfter the better part of two minutes, a voice answered
    “Le Coeur du Soldat,” said a flat male voice, martial music in the background
    “I must reach a blackbird,” said Fontaine in French“My identity is Paris Five
    “If such a request is possible, where can such a bird reach you?”
    “In the Caribbean Fontaine gave the area code, the telephone number and the extension to
    Villa ElevenHe hung up the phone and sat despondent on the edge of the bedIn his soul he knew
    that this might be his and his woman’s last few hours on earthIf so, he and his woman could face
    their God and speak the truthHe had killed, no question about that, but he had never harmed or
    taken the life of a person who had not committed greater crimes against others—with a few minor
    exceptions that might be called innocent bystanders caught in the heat of fire or in an explosionAll
    life was pain, did not the Scriptures tell us that? On the other hand, what kind of God allowed
    such brutalities? Merde! Do not think about such things! They are beyond your understanding
    The telephone rang and Fontaine grabbed it, pulling it to his ear“This is Paris Five,” he said
    “Child of God, what can be so extreme that you would use a number you have called only once
    before in our relationship?”
    “Your generosity has been absolute, monseigneur, but I feel we must redefine our contract
    “In what way?”
    “My life is yours to do with as you will, as mercifully as you will, but it does not include my
    woman
    “What?”
    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
    88
    “A man is here, a learned man from the city of Boston who studies me with curious eyes, eyes
    that tell me he has other purposes in mind
    “That arrogant fool flew down to Montserrat himself? He knows nothing!”
    “Obviously he does, and I beg you, I shall do as you order me to do, but let us go back to Paris
    Sunday, January 2nd, 2011
    2:54 am
    @@@@@ She burned the contrite note he slid under
    @@@@@
    She burned the contrite note he slid under her door during night, and
    she left too early in the morning to need to say goodbyeú When she
    got
    home, she went at once to find CatIt came no surprise to learn that
    she and Billy had gone to the towerthe only cool place on
    BallyharaWhat was a surprise was to Colum and MrsFitzpatrick
    waiting for her under a big tree at rear of the house, with a lavish
    tea spread on a shadowed table7 Scarlett was delightedColum had
    been such a stranger for so long, so stand-offish about coming up to
    the Big houseIt was wonderful to have her almost-brother back
    "I've got the strangest story to tell you," she said"It drove me
    half-crazy with curiosity when I heard itWhat do you think, Colum?
    Is it possible that the young lord really hanged himself in the
    tower?"
    Scarlett described the Marquess of Trevanne with laughing, wicked
    accuracy and mimicked his speech as she repeated itColum set down
    his teacup with tightly controlled precision"I have no opinion,
    Scarlett darling," he said, and his voice was as light and laughing as
    Scarlett liked to remember it"Anything is possible in Ireland, else
    we would be plagued with snakes like the rest of the world
    Ne smiled as he stood upI tarried from my
    day's
    duties only to see your beautiful selfDisregard anything this woman
    may tell you about my fondness for the cakes I ate with my tea he
    walked away so rapidly that Scarlett had no time to wrap some cakes
    in
    a napkin for him to take along"I'll return shortly," said Mrs
    Fitz, and she hurried after Colum"Well!" said ScarlettShe saw
    harriet Kelly in the distance, at the end of the browned lawn, and
    waved at her"Come have tea," Scarlett shouted
    There was plenty leftRosaleen Fitzpatrick had to lift up her skirt
    and run to catch up with Colum halfway down the long d
    Saturday, January 1st, 2011
    2:54 am
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    And now I can sit here and watch TV like it is five years ago and Mom and Dad are in the other
    room and I've never spent a night hiding in a drainpipe with Jamie and a bunch of rats while
    body snatchers with spotlights search for the thieves who made off with a bag of dried beans
    and a bowl of diamond gucci cold spaghetti
    I know that if Jamie and I survived alone for twenty years we would never find this feeling on
    our ownThe feeling of safetyMore than safety, even–happinessSafe and happy, two things I
    thought I'd never feel again
    Jared makes us feel that way without trying, just by being Jared
    I breathe in the scent of his skin and feel the warmth of his body under mine
    Jared makes everything safe, everything gucci backpacks happy
    He still makes me feel safe,Melanie realized, feeling the warmth where his arm was just half an
    inch from minehough he doesn't even know I'm hereLoving Jared made me feel less safe than anything else I could think of
    I wondered if Melanie and I would have loved Jared if he'd always been who he was now,
    rather than the smiling Jared in our memories, the one who had come to Melanie with his gucci twirl watch hands
    full of hope and miraclesWould she have followed him if he'd always been so hard and cynical?
    If the loss of his laughing father and wild big brothers had iced him over the way nothing but
    Melanie's loss had?
    Of course would love Jared in any formEven like this, he belongs with me
    I wondered if the same held true for meWould I love him now if he were like this in her
    memory?
    Then I was interruptedWithout gucci ladies watch any cue that I perceived, suddenly Jared was talking, speaking
    as if we were in the middle of a conversation
    “And so, because of you, Jeb and Jamie are convinced that it's possible to continue some kind
    of awareness after… being caughtThey're both sure Mel's still kicking in there
    He rapped his fist lightly against my headI flinched away from him, and he folded his arms
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    Friday, December 31st, 2010
    2:54 am
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    There was a frantic scuffling behind the first wall of jungle and Roth ground his jaws together to keep from uttering a soundThe noises were coming closer like men creeping up, moving a few feet and then halting, before approaching another few feetHe fumbled around the tripod of the machine gun to find a grenade, and then held it in his hand wondering where to throw itThe grenade seemed extremely heavy, and he felt so weak that he doubted if he could hurl it more than ten yardsIn training he had been told the effective range of a grenade was thirty-five yards, balenciaga replica and he was afraid now that he would be killed by his own grenadeHe replaced it beneath the machine gun, and just sat there
    His fear had to ebb after a timeFor perhaps half an hour he had been waiting for the noises to develop into something, and when nothing occurred, his confidence began to come backHe did not reason that if there were Japs they might spend two hours in advancing fifty yards toward him; because he could not bear the suspense, a part of him assumed that they could not either, and he became convinced there was nothing in the jungle but some animals tank louis scurrying aboutHe lay back in the hole with his shirt against the damp rear wall, and began to relaxHis nerves calmed slowly, rousing to a pitch of fear again every time some sudden noise came out of the jungle, but still becoming more and more composed like a receding tideAfter an hour had passed he grew sleepyHe thought of nothing, listened only to the profound pendant silence of the woodA mosquito began to sing about his ears and his neck, and he waited for it to bite him so that he could crush itIt made him think that there might be insects in the hole with gucci women watches him, and his body began to crawl, and for a few moments he was certain an ant was traveling down his backIt recalled to him the roaches that had infested the first apartment he had had when he was marriedHe remembered how he had reassured his wife, "There's nothing to worry about, ZeldaI can tell you from my studies that the roach is not too vicious a pest Zelda had got some idea that there must be bedbugs also, and no matter how many times he reassured her, "Zelda, roaches eat bedbugs," she would start up in bed, and grasp him with fear, "Herman, I know there's cheap rolex something biting me
    "But I tell you that's impossible
    "Don't tell me about your roaches," she would whisper angrily in the darkened bedroom"If roaches take care of bedbugs they have to get into the bed to do it, don't they?"
    Roth felt a mingled pleasure and wistfulness in rememberingTheir life together had not been all that he had hopedThere were so many fights, and Zelda had a cruel tongue; he recalled how she had taunted him with his education and the fact that he could make no moneyIt had not been entirely her fault, he thought, but then it had not been his necklace chanel eith
    Thursday, December 30th, 2010
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    On receiving it, she could instantly decide on its containing little
    writing, and was persuaded of its having the air of a letter of haste and
    businessIts object was unquestionable; and two moments were enough
    to start the probability of its being merely to give her notice that they
    should be in Portsmouth that very day, and to throw her into all the
    agitation of doubting what she ought to do in such a caseIf two
    moments, however, can surround with difficulties, a third can disperse
    them; and before she had opened the letter, the possibility of
    Mrand Miss Crawford’s having applied to her uncle and obtained
    his permission was giving her easeThis was the letter—
    “A most quilted bag chanel scandalous, ill-natured rumour has just reached me, and
    I write, dear Fanny, to warn you against giving the least credit to it,
    should it spread into the countryDepend upon it, there is some
    mistake, and that a day or two will clear it up; at any rate, that
    Henry is blameless, and in spite of a moment’s etourderie, thinks of
    nobody but youSay not a word of it; hear nothing, surmise nothing,
    whisper nothing till I write againI am sure it will be all hushed
    up, and nothing proved but Rushworth’s follyIf they are gone, I
    would lay my life they are only gone to Mansfield Park, and Julia
    with themBut why would not you let us come for you? I wish you
    may not repent itAs no miu miu bag scandalous, ill-natured rumour had
    reached her, it was impossible for her to understand much of this
    strange letterShe could only perceive that it must relate to Wimpole
    384
    Mansfield Park
    Street and MrCrawford, and only conjecture that something very
    imprudent had just occurred in that quarter to draw the notice of the
    world, and to excite her jealousy, in Miss Crawford’s apprehension, if
    she heard itMiss Crawford need not be alarmed for herShe was
    only sorry for the parties concerned and for Mansfield, if the report
    should spread so far; but she hoped it might notIf the Rushworths
    were gone themselves to Mansfield, as was to be inferred from what
    Miss Crawford said, it was rolex ladies watches not likely that anything unpleasant should
    have preceded them, or at least should make any impressionCrawford, she hoped it might give him a knowledge of
    his own disposition, convince him that he was not capable of being
    steadily attached to any one woman in the world, and shame him
    from persisting any longer in addressing herself
    It was very strange! She had begun to think he really loved her,
    and to fancy his affection for her something more than common;
    and his sister still said that he cared for nobody elseYet there must
    have been some marked display of attentions to her cousin, there
    must have been some strong indiscretion, since her correspondent
    was not of a sort to fake louis vuitton bags regard a slight one
    Very uncomfortable she was, and must continue, till she heard from
    Miss Crawford againIt was impossible to banish the letter from her
    thoughts, and she could not relieve herself by speaking of it to any
    human beingMiss Crawford need not have urged secrecy with so much
    warmth; she might have trusted to her sense of what was due to her
    cousin
    The next day came and brought no second letterFanny was disappointed
    She could still think of little else all the morning; but,
    when her father came back in the afternoon with the daily newspaper
    as usual, she was so far from expecting any elucidation through
    such a channel that the subject was for a moment out of her top chanel hea
    Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
    2:54 am
    @@@@@“Now, what’s the number where I can reach
    @@@@@“Now, what’s the
    number where I can reach MrJacques?”
    The clerk gave it to Conklin, then added, “Many phones are out, sirIt might be well if you left a
    number hereThe wind is still strong, but MrSaint Jay will no doubt come over with the first light
    if he can
    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
    120
    “Certainly Alex rattled off the number of the sterile telephone in the Vienna apartment and had
    the man in Montserrat repeat it“That’s it,” said Conklin“I’ll try Plymouth now
    “The spelling of your name, pleaseIt is C-o-n-c-h—”
    “C-o-n-k,” broke in Alex, snapping off the line and instantly dialing the number in the town of
    Plymouth, the capital of MontserratOnce again a startled, drowsy voice answered; it was a barely
    coherent greeting“Who’s this?” asked Conklin impatiently
    “Who the hell is this—are you?” replied an angry English man
    “I’m trying to reach John StIt’s an emergency, and I was given this number by the
    desk at Tranquility Inn
    “Good Lord, their phones are intact Please, is John there?”
    “Yes, yes, of courseHe’s across the hall, I’ll fetch himWho shall I say—”
    “ ‘Alex’ is good enough
    “Just ‘Alex’?”
    “Hurry, please!” Twenty seconds later the voice of John StJacques filled the line
    “Conklin? Is that you?”
    “Listen to meThey know Marie and the children flew into Montserrat
    “We heard that someone was asking questions over at the airport about a woman and two kids—

    “Then that’s why you moved them from the house to the inn
    Monday, December 27th, 2010
    2:54 am
    @@@@@ The wise woman looked no older, no
    @@@@@ The wise woman looked no
    older, no different from the time Scarlett had seen herI'd even be
    willing to bet those are same shawls she was wearing, Scarlett
    thought
    Cat busied herself the small dark cottage, getting cups from their
    shelf, raking the a cient-smelling burning peat into a mound of glowing
    embers for kettleShe was very much at home"I'll fill the kettle
    at the she said as she carried it outsideGrainne watched her
    lovingly"Dara visits me often," said the wise woman"It's her - to
    a lonely soulI haven't the heart to send her away, for she - the
    right of it"She likes to
    be alone, she doesn't have to - lonelyI've asked her time and again
    if she'd like to have come play, and she always says no
    "It's a wise childThey try to stone her, but Dara is too for
    them
    Scarlett couldn't believe she'd heard right"They do what?" children
    from the town, Grainne said placidly, hunted through woods for Dara,
    like a beastShe heard them, though, long they got to her
    Only the biggest ever came near enough to the stones they carried
    And
    those came near only because they run faster than Dara on longer,
    older
    legsShe knew how to even themThey wouldn't dare chase her into
    her tower, they - afraid of it, haunted as it was by the ghost of the
    young hanged Scarlett was aghastHer precious Cat tormented by the
    of
    Ballyhara! She'd whip every single one of them with her hands, she'd
    evict their parents and break every stick of their - - furniture into
    splinters! She started up out of her chair"You will burden the
    child with the ruin of Ballyhara?" Grainne
    Others would be the sameThey fear anyone different to themselves
    What they fear they try to drive away
    Sunday, December 26th, 2010
    2:54 am
    @@@@@He half spun, eyes flashing toward
    @@@@@He half spun, eyes flashing toward the
    exit“Where's Sharon?”
    Brandt shook his head“It's just running sweepsStarts at Picacho, then fans out in spokes
    Doesn't look like it's focusing on anything closeCircled around a few times where we dumped
    the car
    “Sharon?” Doc asked again
    “She's with the kids and LucinaThe boys are getting things packed in case we
    have to roll tonight, but Jeb says it's not likely
    Doc exhaled, then paced over to his deskHe slouched against it, looking as if he'd just run a
    long race“So it's nothing new, really,” he murmuredJust have to lay low for a few days,” Brandt reassured himHis eyes were flickering
    around the room again, settling on me every other second“Do you have any rope handy?” he
    askedHe pulled up the edge of the sheet on an empty cot, examining it
    “Rope?” Doc echoed blanklyKyle sent me out here to secure it
    My muscles contracted involuntarily; my hand gripped Walter's fingers too tightly, and he
    whimperedI tried to force it to relax while I kept my eyes on Brandt's hard faceHe was
    waiting for Doc, expectant
    “You're here tosecure Wanda?” Doc said, his voice hard again“And what makes you think
    that's necessary?”
    “Come on, DocYou've got some big vents in here, and a lot of reflective
    metal Brandt gestured to a file cabinet against the far w
    Saturday, December 25th, 2010
    2:54 am
    @@@@@"No, I don't think soI heard Goldstein yell,
    @@@@@"No, I don't think soI heard Goldstein yell, and then the gun started to come down on meIt was rolling back so I got out of the way Already he was uncertain exactly how it had occurred, and a part of his mind was trying to convince him that he spoke the truthWith it, however, he felt a surprising flush of shame"I guess it was my fault," he blurted out honestly, but his voice was so tired that it lacked sincerity, and Croft thought he was trying to protect GoldsteinA spasm of rage worked through him, and he turned on Goldstein and said, "Listen, Izzy
    "My name isn't Izzy," Goldstein said angrily
    "I don't give a damn what it isThe next time you pull a goddam trick like that, I'm going to put you in for a court-martial
    "But I don't think I let go," Goldstein protested weaklyBy now, he too was no longer sureThe sequence of his sensations when the gun had begun to pull out of his hands was too confused for him to feel righteousHe had thought that Wyman stopped pushing first, but when Wyman declared he was to blame, Goldstein had a moment of panicLike Croft, he believed Wyman was protecting him"I don't know," he said"I don't think I did
    "You don't think," Croft cut him off"Listen, for as long as you've been in the platoon, Goldstein, you've done nothing but have ideas about how we could do something betterBut when it comes down to a little goddam work, you're always dicking offI've had enough of that bullshit from you
    Once again Goldstein was feeling a helpless angerA reaction he could not control, his agitation was even greater than his resentment and choked him so that he could not speakA few tears of frustration welled in his eyes, and he turned away and lay down againHis anger was now directed toward himself and he felt a hopeless sha
    Friday, December 24th, 2010
    2:54 am
    @@@@@ Scarlett poured ham gravy over her grits,
    @@@@@
    Scarlett poured ham gravy over her grits, piled grits on a piece of
    ham, and speared the arrangement with her fork"Uncle Rhett would
    let
    me go, too," Ella sobbedI won't listen, thought Scarlett, I'll just
    close my ears and enjoy my breakfastShe put ham and grits and
    gravy
    in her mouthMother, when is Uncle Rhett coming to
    Tara?"
    Ella's voice was sharply piercingScarlett heard the words in spite
    of herself, and the rich food turned to sawdust in her mouthWhat
    could she say, how could she answer Ella's question? "Never Was
    that the answer? She couldn't, wouldn't believe it herselfShe
    looked at her red-faced daughter with loathingElla had ruined
    everythingCouldn't she have left me alone at least long enough to
    eat my breakfast? Ella had the ginger-colored curly hair of her
    father, Frank KennedyIt stuck out around her tear-blotched face like
    rusted coils of wire, always escaping from the tight braids Prissy
    plaited, no matter how much she slicked it down with waterElla's
    body was like wire, too, skinny and angularShe was older than
    Susie,
    almost seven compared to Susie's six and a half, but Susie was half a
    head taller already and so much heftier that she could bully Ella with
    impunityNo wonder Ella wants Rhett to come, Scarlett thoughtHe
    really cares for her, and I don'tShe gets on my nerves just like
    Frank did, and no matter how hard I try I just can't love her"When's
    Uncle Rhett coming, Mother?" Ella asked againScarlett pushed her
    chair away from the table and stood up"That's grown-ups' business,"
    she said"I'm going to see to ú Mammy She couldn't bear to think
    about Rhett now, she'd think about all that later, when she wasn't so
    upsetIt was more important-much more-to coax Mammy into
    swallowing
    her broth* * * "Just one more little spoonful, Mammy darling, it'll
    make me happy The old woman turned her head away from the
    spo
    Thursday, December 23rd, 2010
    2:52 am
    @@@@@If not, the entire jaw might have to go
    @@@@@If not, the
    entire jaw might have to go Panov could feel the car briefly swerve as the driver momentarily lost
    controlA minute and a half later: “The whole fuckin’ jaw? Half the face?”
    “It’s either that or the whole of the patient’s life Thirty seconds later: “You think I could have
    something like that?”
    “I’m a doctor, not an alarmistI merely noted a symptom, I did not make a diagnosis
    “So bullshit! So make a dagassnossis!”
    “I’m not qualified
    “Bullshit! You’re a doctor, ain’t you? I mean a real doctor, not a fasullo who says he is but ain’t
    got no shingle that’s legit
    “If you mean medical school, yes, I’m that kind of doctor
    “So look at me!”
    “I can’t Panov suddenly felt the guard’s thick strong hand clawing at his
    head, yanking the kerchief off himThe dark interior of the automobile answered a question for
    Mo: How could anyone travel in a car with a blindfolded passenger? In that car it was no problem;
    except for the windshield, the windows were not merely tinted, they were damn near opaque, which
    meant from the outside they were opaqueNo one could see inside
    “Go on, look!” The capo subordinato, his eyes on the road, tilted his large head grotesquely
    toward Panov; his thick lips were parted and his teeth bared like those of a child playing monster in
    the mirror, he shouted again“So tell me what you see!”
    “It’s too dark in here,” replied Mo, seeing essentially what he wanted to see in the front window;
    they were on a country road, so narrow and so country the next step lower was dirtWherever he
    was being taken, he was being driven there by an extremely circuitous route
    “Open the fuckin’ window!” yelled the guard, his head still twisted, his eyes still on the road, his
    gaping mouth approaching a caricature of Orca, the about-to-vomit whale“Don’t hold nothin’
    backI’ll break every goddamn finger in that prick’s hands! He can do his fuckin’ surgery with his
    elbows! I told that stupid sister of mine he was no fuckin’ good, that fairyAlways readin’ books,
    no action on the street, y’know what I mean?”
    “If you’ll stop shouting for a few seconds, I can get a closer look,” said Panov, having lowered
    the window at his side, seeing nothing but trees and the coarse underbrush of a distinctly
    backcountry road, one he doubted was on too many maps“There we are,” continued Mo, raising
    his loosely bound hands to the capo’s mouth, his eyes, however, not on that mouth but on the road
    ahead“Oh, my God!” cried Panov
    “What?” screamed the guardPockets of pus everywhereIn the upper and lower mandibles
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    Sunday, December 19th, 2010
    2:54 am
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    @@@@@For example, one dad had a habit of saying, "I can't afford it The other dad forbade those words to be usedHe insisted I say, "How can I afford it?" One is a statement, and the other is a questionOne lets you off the hook, and the other forces you to thinkMy soon-to-be-rich dad would explain that by automatically saying the words "I can't afford it," your brain stops workingBy asking the question "How can I afford it?" your brain is put to workHe did not mean buy everything you wantedHe was fanatical about exercising your mind, the most powerful computer in the world"My brain gets stronger every day because I exercise itThe stronger it gets, the more money I can make He believed that automatically saying "I can't afford it" was a sign of mental laziness
    Although both dads worked hard, I noticed that one dad had a habit of putting his brain to sleep when it came to money matters, and the other had a habit of exercising his brainThe long-term result was that one dad grew stronger financially and the other grew weakerIt is not much different from a person who goes to the gym to exercise on a regular basis versus someone who sits on the couch watching televisionProper physical exercise increases your chances for health, and proper mental exercise increases your chances for wealthLaziness decreases both health and wealth
    My two dads had opposing attitudes in thoughtOne dad thought that the rich should pay more in taxes to take care of those less fortunateThe other said, "Taxes punish those who produce and reward those who don't produce
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    Saturday, December 18th, 2010
    2:54 am
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    Friday, December 17th, 2010
    2:53 am
    @@@@@"If you could be saying a small blessing on
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    hour agoWhy, he sounds just like Pa at his most Irish
    Scarlett bowed her head for the priest's blessing, as did the groups of
    workmenHer eyes smarted from the tang of the cut pine and the
    quick
    tears for her father that she blinked awayI'll go see Pa's brothers,
    she decidedNo matter that they must be about a hundred years old,
    Pa
    would want me to go and say hello at least
    She walked with the priest back to the convent, and another placid
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    Scarlett kept her temper, but her eyes were dangerously bright"Tell
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    a
    few blocks awayShe was going to be late for
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    big pink house"Take these things," she said to Pansy, and she got
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    entered
    the dining room"Pere wants to see you, Scarlett
    "Can't it wait until after dinner? I'm starving
    "He said 'the minute she comes'" Scarlett picked up a steaming hot roll
    from the bread basket and took an angry bite as she swung on her
    heel
    She finished it while she marched to her grandfather's roomThe old
    man frowned at her over the tray that rested on his lap in the big
    bed
    His plate, Scarlett saw, held only mashed potatoes and a mound of
    soggy-looking bits of carrotMy grief! No wonder he looks so
    fierce
    There's not even any butter on the potatoesEven if he doesn't have
    a
    tooth in his head, they could feed him better than that"I do not
    tolerate a disregard for the schedule of my house," said the old man
    "I'm sorry, Grandfath
    Saturday, December 11th, 2010
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    Friday, December 10th, 2010
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    muteIt was like being given
    back your memory, and a person's memory is
    everything, really
    Even from that first line - that incredibly brave
    first line meant to show where the Gulf met the
    sky - she had understood that seeing and memory
    were interchangeable, and had set out to mend
    herself
    Perse hadn't been in it
    v
    824
    For the next four hours, I slipped in and out of
    Libbit's worldIt was a wonderful, frightening
    place to beSometimes I scribbled words - The
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    language we shared
    I understood her family's quick arc from amazement
    to acceptance to boredomIt had happened partly
    because the girl was so prolific, maybe more
    because she was part of them, she was their little
    Libbit, and there's always that feeling that no
    good can come out of Nazareth, isn't there? But
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    of seeing
    And found them, God help her
    I drew birds flying upside-down, and animals
    walking on the swimming pool
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    sides of its faceI thought it was right around
    then that Perse had entered the pictureOnly -
    "Only Libbit didn't know it was Perse," I said
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    825
    I thumbed back through her drawings, almost to the
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    floor and grabbed another
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    Tuesday, December 7th, 2010
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    It required a longer time, however, than MrsNorris was inclined
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    were very acute, and too little understood to be properly attended
    13
    Jane Austen
    toNobody meant to be unkind, but nobody put themselves out of
    their way to secure her comfort
    The holiday allowed to the Miss Bertrams the next day, on purpose
    to afford leisure for getting acquainted with, and entertaining
    their young cousin, produced little unionThey could not but hold
    her cheap on finding that she had but two sashes, and had never
    learned French; and when they perceived her to be little struck with
    the duet they were so good as to play, they could do no more than
    make her a generous present of some of their least valued toys, and
    leave her to herself, while they adjourned to whatever might be the
    favourite holiday sport of the moment, making artificial flowers or
    wasting gold paper
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    the drawing-room, or the shrubbery, was equally forlorn, finding
    something to fear in every person and placeShe was disheartened
    by Lady Bertram’s silence, awed by Sir Thomas’s grave looks,
    and quite overcome by MrsHer elder cousins
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    her shyness: Miss Lee wondered at her ignorance, and the
    maid-servants sneered at her clothes; and when to these sorrows was
    added the idea of the brothers and sisters among whom she had
    always been important as playfellow, instructress, and nurse, the
    despondence that sunk her little heart was severe
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    The rooms were too large for her to move in with ease: whatever she
    touched she expected to injure, and she crept about in constant
    terror of something or other; often retreating towards her own chamber
    to cry; and the little girl who was spoken of in the drawingroom
    when she left it at night as seeming so desirably sensible of her
    peculiar good fortune, ended every day’s sorrows by sobbing herself
    to sleepA week had passed in this way, and no suspicion of it conveyed
    by her quiet passive manner, when she was found one morning
    by her cousin Edmund, the youngest of the sons, sitting crying
    on the attic stairs
    “My dear little cousin,” said he, with all the gentleness of an excellent
    nature, “what can be the matter?” And sitting down by her,
    he was at great pains to overcome her shame in being so surprised,
    14
    Mansfield Park
    and persuade her to speak openly“Was she ill? or was anybody
    angry with her? or had she quarrelled with Maria and Julia? or was
    she puzzled about anything in her lesson that he could explain? Did
    she, in short, want anything he could possibly get her, or do for her?
    For a long while no answer could be obtained beyond a “no, no—
    not at all—no, thank you”; but he still persevered; and no sooner
    had he begun to revert to her own home, than her increased sobs
    explained to him where the grievance layHe tried to console her
    “You are sorry to leave Mama, my dear little Fanny,” said he, “which
    shows you to be a very good girl; but you must remember that you
    are with relations and friends, who all love you, and wish to make
    you happyLet us walk out in the park, and you shall tell me all
    about your brothers and sisters
    On pursuing the subject, he found that, dear as all these brothers
    and sisters generally were, there was one among them who ran more
    in her thoughts than the restIt was William whom she talked of
    most, and wanted most to seeWilliam, the eldest, a year older than
    herself, her constant companion and friend; her advocate with her
    mother (of whom he was the darling) in every distress“William
    did not like she should come away; he had told her he should miss
    her very much indeed “But William will write to you, I dare say
    “Yes, he had promised he would, but he had told her to write first
    “And when shall you do it?” She hung her head and answered hesitatingly,
    “she did not know; she had not any paper
    “If that be all your difficulty, I will furnish you with paper and
    every other material, and you may write your letter whenever you
    choo
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    Martinez smiled lazilyIn three minutes he was asleep



    8

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    been so undependable for so long
    Suppose having this baby kills me? Oh, God, please, please, God,
    don't
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    She crossed herself again and again in confused entreaty, propitiation,
    superstitionThen she shook her head angrilyWhat was she doing?
    Just being sillyShe was strong and healthyNot like Melly at
    all
    Why, Mammy always said it was downright shameful the way she
    dropped a
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    She was going to do just fine, and her baby would be fine, tooAnd
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    Gracious, she hadn't even thought of Miss EleanorTalk about
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    old man who sweeps out the trashThis baby's going to be the talk of
    Charleston before it even draws its first breathThat's where I should be goingI want
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