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    Monday, January 3rd, 2011
    10:11 am
    @@@@@The quality of mercy is not strained, you
    @@@@@The quality of mercy is not
    strained, you knowIt droppeth like the gentle
    rain
    "From heaven," I said She flapped her hand as if that part
    were of no matter
    "Why don't you arrange your chinas, Elizabeth?
    They're all mixed up today
    She cast a glance at the table, then looked at the
    window when an especially strong gust of wind
    slapped it with rain"I'm so
    fucking confused And then, with a spite I would
    not have guessed she had in her: "They all died
    and left me to this
    I was the last one to be repulsed by her lapse
    into vulgarity; I understood it too wellMaybe
    the quality of mercy isn't strained, there are
    372
    millions of us who live and die by the idea, but
    we have things like this waiting
    She said, "He never should have got that thing,
    but he didn't know
    "What thing?"
    "What thing," she agreed, and noddedI want to get out of here before the big
    boy comes
    After that we both lapsed into silenceElizabeth
    closed her eyes and appeared to doze off in her
    wheelchair
    For something to do, I got out of my own chair,
    which would have looked at home in a gentlemen's
    club, and approached the tableI plucked up a
    china girl and boy, looked at them, then put them
    asideI scratched absently at the arm that wasn't
    there, studying the senseless litter before me
    There had to be at least a hundred figures on the
    polished length of oakAmong
    them was a china woman with an old-fashioned cap
    on - a milkmaid's cap, I thought - but I didn't
    want her, eitherThe cap was wrong, and besides,
    she was too youngI 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
    Sunday, January 2nd, 2011
    10:12 am
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    Jamie?
    She writhed, fighting the obviousness of the answeres, but… I can't… She took a moment to
    steady herself find myself unable to be the death of you, Wanda
    I saw the depth of her pain, and tears formed in my eyesBut santos cartier there's not room for the both of us hereIn this body, in this cave, in
    their lives…
    I disagree
    Look, just stop trying to annihilate yourself, okay? Because if I think you can do it, I'll make
    Doc pull me out todayJust imagine what he would do
    I imagined it for her, smiling a little through my omega replica watches tearsemember? He said no guarantees about
    what he would or wouldn't do to keep you hereI thought of those burning kisses in the hall…
    thought of other kisses and other nights in her memoryMy face warmed as I blushedNo more silent treatment
    We thought of other things then, things that didn't hurtLike omega seamaster gmt where we would send the Seeker
    Mel was all for the Mists Planet after my story tonight, but I thought the Planet of the Flowers
    would be more fittingThere wasn't a mellower planet in the universeThe Seeker needed a nice
    long lifetime eating sunshine
    We thought of my memories, the pretty onesThe ice diaper bag gucci castles and the night music and the
    colored sunsThey were like fairytales to herAnd she told me fairytales, tooGlass slippers,
    poisoned apples, mermaids who wanted to have souls…
    Of course, we didn't have time to tell many stories
    They all returned togetherJared had come back through the main Gucci Clutches entr
    Saturday, January 1st, 2011
    10:19 am
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    And the beach at Botoi Bay was the only place where he could land troops for at least fifty miles down the coastPast Botoi some of the densest jungle forests on Anopopei grew virtually into the water, and nearer his own front line were bluffs too steep to be scaled by invasion troopsThere was no alternativeTo take the Toyaku Line from the rear they would need the Navy
    The thing that appealed to Cummings about this flanking invasion was what he called its "psychological soundness The men who would land at Botoi would be in the enemy rear without any safe way to retreat, and their only security chanel logo would be to drive ahead and meet their own troopsThey would have to advanceAnd, conversely, the troops attacking frontally would do so with more enthusiasmCummings had found from experience that men fought better when they believed their share of an assignment was the easy partThey would be pleased they missed the invasion, and even more important, they would believe that the resistance before them would be softer, less decisive, because of the movement in the rear
    After the battle plan for the frontal assault had been completed, and it was merely a question of waiting a few days until all the supplies had been brought up dior bag to the front, Cummings called a special conference of his staff officers, outlined the new plan to them, and gave orders that it should be developed as a corollary of the major attack, to be used as opportunity grantedAt the same time he sent a request through channels for three destroyersThen he put his staff to work
    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 chanel wholesale 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, 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 ladies gucci watches puz
    Friday, December 31st, 2010
    10:19 am
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    Jimmy choo handbag,omega sale,fake louis vuitton bags,watch omega,cartier must 21@@@@@Middleton's wife, Edith, looked increasingly drawn and
    paleAnd no one could understand Rhett's imperturbabilityWhy
    didn't
    he do something? the little world of Charleston society wonderedhe
    yearly races were second only to the Saint Cecilia Ball as the crowning
    event of Charleston's social seasonIndeed there were many
    people-largely bachelors -who considered them the only event"You
    can't gamble on a bunch of waltzes," they grumbled mutinously
    Before
    the War, the Season had included a full week of racing, and the Saint
    Cecilia Society hosted three ballsThen came the Jimmy choo handbag years of siege; an
    artillery shell ignited a path of fire through the city that consumed
    the building where the balls had always been held; and the long,
    landscaped oval track, its clubhouse, and its stables were used as a
    Confederate Army encampment and hospitals for the woundedIn I
    865 the city surrenderedIn I 866 an enterprising and ambitious Wall
    Street banker named August Belmont bought the monumental carved
    stone
    entrance pillars of the old Race Course and had them transported
    north
    to become the entrance to his Bellmont Park racetrackThe Saint
    Cecilia
    Ball omega sale found a borrowed home only two years after the end of the War
    and
    Charlestonians rejoiced that the Season could begin againIt took
    longer to regain and restore the fouled and rutted land of the Race
    CourseNothing was quite the samethere was one ball, not three;
    Race
    Week was Race Day; the entrance pillars could not be recovered, and
    the
    Clubhouse had been replaced by half-roofed tiers of wooden benches
    But on the bright afternoon in late January 1875, the entire remaining
    population of old Charleston was en route for the second year of
    racing
    The streetcars of all fake louis vuitton bags four City Railway lines were diverted to the
    Rutledge Avenue route that ended near the Race Course, the cars
    were
    hung with green and white bunting, the Club colors, and the horses
    pulling them had green and white ribbons braided in their tails and
    manesRhett presented his three ladies with green and white striped
    parasols when they were ready to leave the house and inserted a
    white
    camellia into hisbuttonholeHis white smile was brilliant in
    his tanned face"The Yankees are taking the bait," he saidBelmont himself has sent down two horses, and
    Guggenheim
    has oneThey watch omega don't know about the brood mares Miles Brewton hid in
    the swampTheir get grew into a mettlesome family-a bit shaggy
    from
    swamp living and unbeautiful from crossbreeding with strays from the
    cavalry-but Miles has a wonder of a three-year-old that's going to
    make
    every big-money pocket a lot lighter than it expected to be
    "You mean there's betting?"
    Scarlett asked"Why else would anyone race?"
    Rhett laughedHe tucked folded banknotes into his mother's reticule,
    Rosemary's pocket, and Scarlett's glove"Put it all on Sweet Sally
    and buy yourselves a trinket with your cartier must 21 winnin
    Thursday, December 30th, 2010
    10:11 am
    @@@@@“As usual, you have heard nothing “And, as
    @@@@@“As usual, you have
    heard nothing
    “And, as usual, you will be rewarded
    It was 4:17 when Rodchenko returned to his office and sat down at his desk, studying his notes
    It was incredible! It was beyond belief, yet there it was—he had heard for himself the words and
    the voices saying those words! Not those concerning the monseigneur in Paris; he was secondary
    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
    331
    now and could be reached in minutes, if it was necessaryThat could wait, but the other could not
    wait, not an instant longer! The general picked up his phone and rang his secretary
    “I want an immediate satellite transmission to our consulate in New YorkAll maximum
    scramblers in place and operational
    How could it happen?
    Medusa!
    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
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    32
    Frowning, Marie listened to her husband’s voice over the telephone, nodding at Mo Panov across
    the hotel room“Where are you now?” she asked
    “At a pay phone in the Plaza-Athénée,” answered Bourne“I’ll be back in a couple of hours
    “What’s happening?”
    “Complications, but also some progress
    “That doesn’t tell me anything
    “There’s not that much to tell
    “What’s this Krupkin like?”
    “He’s an originalHe brought us to the Soviet embassy and I talked to your brother on one of
    their linesHow are the children?”
    “FineJamie’s thoroughly enjoying himself and MrsCooper won’t let
    Johnny touch Alison
    “Which means Bro doesn’t want to touch Alison
    “What’s the number? I want to call
    “Holland’s setting up a secure lineWe’ll know in an hour or so
    “Which means you’re lyi
    Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
    10:11 am
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    I really was a talented sonofabitchIt only took
    467
    twenty minutes, and when I was done I had drawn a
    human brain floating on the Gulf of MexicoIt was,
    in a way, way cool
    It was also horrifyingIt isn't a word I want to
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    took the X-ray down and compared it to my picture
    - slug in the science, no slug in the art - I
    realized something I perhaps should have seen much
    earlierCertainly after I started the Girl and
    Ship seriesWhat I was doing didn't work just
    because it played on the nerve-endings; it worked
    because people knew - on some level they earring chanel really
    did know - that what they were looking at had come
    from a place beyond talentThe feeling those Duma
    pictures conveyed was horror, barely held in check
    Horror waiting to happenInbound on rotted sails
    v
    I was hungry againI made myself a sandwich and
    ate it in front of my computerI was catching up
    with The Hummingbirds - they had become quite chanel white bag the
    little obsession with me - when the phone rang
    468
    "My headache's gone," he said
    "Do you always say hello like that?" I asked"Can
    I maybe expect your next call to begin 'I just
    evacuated my bowels'?"
    "Don't make light of thisMy head has ached ever
    since I woke up on the dining room floor after
    shooting myselfSometimes it's just background
    noise and gucci men watch sometimes it rings like New Year's Eve
    in hell, but it always achesAnd then, half an
    hour ago, it just quitI was making myself a cup
    of coffee and it quitI couldn't believe itAt
    first I thought I was deadI've been walking
    around on eggshells, waiting for it to come back
    and really wallop me with Maxwell's Silver Hammer,
    and it hasn't
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    Monday, December 27th, 2010
    10:14 am
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    No one called me on my liesThey knew I was saying this for myself“I don't want to be away from Jodi longShe might need something“Let's get this over with The quicker the betterBecause it didn't matter
    what was said here; Doc had agreed to gucci ladies watch my termsAnd yet there was some stupid part of me that
    hoped… hoped that there was a solution that would make everything perfect and let me stay
    with Ian and Mel with Jared in a way that absolutely no one would suffer forBest to crush that
    impossible hope gucci mens watch quickly“Wanda, what's your side?”
    “I'm giving Melanie back Firm, short–no reasons to argue against
    “Ian, what's yours?”
    “We need Wanda here
    Firm, short–he was copying me
    Jeb nodded to himself“That's a tricky oneWanda, why should I agree with you?”
    “If it were gucci for sale you, you'd want your body backYou can't deny Melanie that
    “We have to look at the greater good, JebWanda's already brought us more health and security
    than we've ever hadShe's vital to the survival of our community–of the entire human raceOne
    person can't stand in replica tiffany jewelry the way of that“Wanda, what does Mel say?”
    Ha,Mel said
    I stared into Jared's eyes, and the strangest thing happenedAll the melting and melding I had
    just been through was shoved aside, into the smallest part of my body, the little corner that I
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    Sunday, December 26th, 2010
    10:22 am
    @@@@@ He thought of the Sound and the pale dunes
    @@@@@ He thought of the Sound and the pale dunes that surrounded it"It was beautiful thereYou know you can't beat America for beautiful country
    "You can say that again, brother," Gallagher snorted suddenly
    It was just his way of talking, Goldstein decidedHe didn't mean any harm"Did you ever go out on boats, Gallagher?" he asked mildly
    Gallagher raised himself on an elbow"Aaah, I went canoeing once in a while out on the Charles, past West RoxburyUsed to go with my wife He said it first, and then thought about itHis face altered for an instant, assumed a numb stricken cast
    "Oh, I'm sorry," Goldstein breathed Gallagher felt some irritation at getting sympathy from a Jew"Forget it," he added, a little meaninglesslyBut he was becoming tender again, dissolving in a bath of self-pity and pleasant gentle sorrow"Look," he said abruptly, "you got a kid, ain't ya?"
    Goldstein nodded"Oh, yes," he answered eagerly"My boy is three years old nowWait, I'll show you a picture of him With some effort, he rolled over on the cot and withdrew his wallet from his back pocket"This isn't a good picture of him," Goldstein apologized, "he's really one of the handsomest children you could imagineWe've got a big picture at home of him that we had a professional photographer take, and honestly you couldn't beat it
    Gallagher stared at the pictureyeah, he's a cute kid, all ri
    Saturday, December 25th, 2010
    10:22 am
    @@@@@ Sally pulled on her gloves with quick,
    @@@@@ Sally pulled on her gloves with quick, practiced motions
    and started for the door"Wait!" said ScarlettWho? Rhett and who?" Sally's
    monkey face crumpled in sympathy"Nobody we know," she said
    gentlyHe was only nineteen when he left Charleston, and at
    that age boys go to a bordello or to a willing poor white girlSince
    he returned he's demonstrated great delicacy in refusing all offers
    without hurting any feelings"Charleston isn't a sink of iniquity,
    dearPeople don't feel any social pressure to be constantly
    rutting
    I'm sure that Rhett is faithful to you"I'll see myself out As soon
    as Sally was gone Scarlett ran upstairs to her bedroom and locked
    herself inShe threw herself across the bed and wept
    uncontrollably
    Grotesque visions assaulted her mind of Rhett with one woman still another, and another and another of the ladies she saw at
    parties every dayWhat a fool she'd been to believe that he would be
    jealous of herWhen she could no longer bear her thoughts, she rang
    for Pansy, then washed and powdered her faceShe couldn't sit and
    smile and talk with Miss Eleanor when she woke upShe had to get
    away, at least for a while"We're going out," she told Pansy * * Scarlett walked for miles-quickly and
    silently, uncaring whether Pansy was keeping upAs she passed
    Charleston's tall, beautiful old houses, she didn't see their crumbling
    pastel stucco walls as proud evidence of survival, she saw only that
    they cared not how they looked to passers-by and turned their
    shoulders
    to the street to face inward toward their private walled gardensThey keep their secrets, she thoughtExcept from each
    otherEveryone pretends about everythingwas nearly dark when
    Scarlett got back, and the house looked silent and forbiddin
    Friday, December 24th, 2010
    10:11 am
    @@@@@ “Oh, it was, was it?” cried the former
    @@@@@
    “Oh, it was, was it?” cried the former brigadier of the British army“Well, let me explain
    something else, shall I? You’ve been duped by an international terrorist wanted the world over! Do
    you know the universal penalty for aiding and abetting such a killer? I’ll make it plain, in case it’s
    escaped your attention—in your official capacity, of courseIt is death by firing squad or, less
    charitably, a public hanging! Now, what’s that goddamned number in Paris?”
    “Under the circumstances,” said the deputy, summoning what dignity he could despite the fact
    that his trembling nephew clutched his left arm and his hand shook as he reached for his notebook
    “I’ll write it out for youOne asks for a blackbirdI speak a few words, Sir
    Henry
    Summoned by an armed guard dressed casually as a weekend guest in white slacks and a loose,
    bulky white linen jacket, John StJacques walked into the library of their new safe house, an estate
    on Chesapeake BayThe guard, a muscular, medium-sized man with clean-cut Hispanic features,
    stood inside the doorway; he pointed to the telephone on the large cherry-wood desk
    “Thanks, Hector,” said Johnny, pausing brieflyJones stuff really necessary?”
    “As necessary as ‘Hector My real name’s Roger Jacques crossed to the desk and picked up the phone“Holland?”
    “That number your friend Sykes got is a blind, but useful
    “As my brother-in-law would say, please speak English
    “It’s the number of a café on the Marais waterfront on the SeineThe routine is to ask for a
    blackbird—un oiseau noir—and somebody shouts outIf the blackbird’s there, contact is madeIf
    he isn’t, you try again
    “Why is it useful?”
    “We’ll try again—and again and again—with a man inside
    “What’s happening otherwise?”
    “I can only give you a limited answer
    “Goddamn you!”
    “Marie can fill you in—”
    “Marie?”
    “She’s on her way homeShe’s mad as hell, but she’s also one relieved wife and mother
    “Why is she mad?”
    “I’ve booked her low-key on several long flights back—”
    “For Christ’s sake, why?” broke in the brother angrily“You send a goddamned plane for her!
    She’s been more valuable to you than anyone in your dumb Congress or your corkscrew
    administration, and you send planes for them all over the p
    Thursday, December 23rd, 2010
    10:12 am
    @@@@@"No overgrowth back thenYou could see the
    @@@@@"No
    overgrowth back thenYou could see the original
    house from the mainland and vice-versaAnd so far
    as I know, amigo, the house is still there
    Whatever's left of it He
    reached the kitchen door and looked at me,
    unsmiling"That would be something to paint,
    wouldn't it? A ghost-ship on dry land
    viii
    655
    He took me into the library with the suit of armor
    in the corner and the museum-quality weapons on
    the wallThere, on the table next to the
    telephone, was a folder marked JOHN
    EASTLAKE/HERON'S ROOSTIHe opened it and removed
    a photograph showing a house that bore an
    unmistakable similarity to the one we were in -
    the similarity, say, of first cousinsYet there
    was one basic difference between the two, and the
    similarities - the same basic footprint for both
    houses, I thought, and the same roof of bright
    orange Spanish tile - only underlined it
    The current Palacio hid from the world behind a
    high wall broken by only a single gate - there
    wasn't even a tradesman's entranceIt had a
    beautiful interior courtyard which few people
    other than Wireman, Annmarie, the pool girl, and
    the twice-weekly gardener ever saw; it was like
    the body of a beautiful woman hidden under a
    shapeless piece of clothing
    The first Heron's Roost was very differentLike
    Elizabeth's mansion in China Town, it featured
    half a dozen pillars and a broad, welcoming
    verandaIt had a wide drive sweeping boldly up to
    656
    it, splitting what looked like two acres of lawn
    Not a gravel drive, either, as Mary Ire had told
    me, but rosy crushed shellsThe original had
    invited the world inIts successor - El Palacio -
    told the world to stay the hell outIlse had seen
    that at once, and so had I, but that day we had
    been looking from the roadSince then my view had
    changed, and with good reason: I had gotten used
    to seeing it from the beachTo coming upon it
    from its unarmored side
    The first Heron's Roost had also been higher,
    three stories in front and four in back, so - if
    it really did stand on a rise, as Mary had said -
    people on the top floor would have had a
    breathtaking three-hundred-and-sixty-degree view
    of the Gulf, the mainland, Casey Key, and Don
    Pedro IslandBut the lawn looked
    strangely ragged - unkempt - and there were holes
    in the line of ornamental palms dancing like hula
    girls on either side of the houseI looked closer
    and saw that some of the upper windows had been
    boarded upThe roofline had a strangely
    unbalanced look, too
    Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010
    10:22 am
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    Sunday, December 19th, 2010
    10:18 am
    @@@@@ “Please, Monsieur Fontaine,” protested the
    @@@@@
    “Please, Monsieur Fontaine,” protested the stocky black immigration official in a pronounced
    British accent“This is merely an informal formality, a stamping procedure, if you likeAlso to
    remove you from the inconvenience of so many admirersRumors have gone throughout the airport
    that a great man has arrived
    “Really?” Fontaine smiled; it was a pleasant smile
    “Oh, but not to be concerned, sirThe press has been barredWe know you want complete
    privacy, and you shall have it
    “Really?” The old man’s smile faded“I was to meet someone here, an associate, you might say,
    I must consult with confidentiallyI hope your most considerate arrangements do not prevent him
    from reaching me
    “A small, select group with proper standing and credentials will greet you in Blackburne’s
    honored-guest corridor, Monsieur Fontaine,” said the Crown governor’s chief aide“May we
    proceed? The reception line will be swift, I assure you
    “Really? That swift?”
    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
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    It was, less than five minutes actually, but five seconds would have been enoughThe first
    person the Jackal’s courier-killer met was the beribboned Crown governor himselfAs the Queen’s
    royal representative embraced the hero in Gallic style, he whispered into Jean Pierre Fontaine’s ear
    “We’ve learned where the woman and her children were takenWe are sending you thereThe
    nurse has your instructions
    The rest was somewhat anticlimactic for the old man, especially the absence of the pressHe had
    never had his picture in the newspapers except as a felon was a very angry man, and he always tried to control his very angry
    moments because they never helped him or his patientsAt the moment, however, sitting at his
    office desk, he was having difficulty curbing his emotionsHe had not heard from David WebbHe
    had to hear from him, he had to talk to h
    Saturday, December 18th, 2010
    10:15 am
    @@@@@When the hostess "turned" the table,
    @@@@@When the hostess
    "turned"
    the table, Scarlett enchanted the tired general on her right with a
    day-by-day account of the siege of tlantaHer Southern accent was
    not
    at all what one expected an American to sound like, they reported
    later
    to anyone who'd listen, and she's a damn'd intelligent womanShe
    was
    also a "damn'd attractive woman The excessively big
    diamond-and-emerald engagement ring she'd received from Rhett
    sparkled
    impressively on her bare-but-not-too-bare bosomCharlotte had
    ordered
    it remade into a pendant that hung from a white gold chain so fine
    that
    it was nearly invisibleAfter dinner Scarlett played whist with her
    customary skillHer partner won enough money to cover her losses at
    three previous house parties, and Scarlett became a sought-after
    companion among ladies as well as gentlemenThe following
    morning,
    and for five mornings after, there was a huntEven on a mount from
    her host's stables Scarlett was adept and fearlessHer success was
    assuredThe Anglo-Irish gentry as a whole admired nothing quite as
    much as they did a fine riderCharlotte Montague had to be vigilant,
    or she'd be caught looking like a cat who'd just finished a bowl of
    thick cream"Did you enjoy yourself?" she asked Scarlett on the way
    back to Ballyhara"Every minute, Charlotte! Bless you for getting me
    invitedEverything was perfectIt's so thoughtful having those
    sandwiches in the bedroomI always get hungry late at night, I guess
    everybody does Charlotte laughed until her eyes were streaming
    with
    tearsIt made Scarlett hurry"I don't see what's so funny about a
    healthy appetiteWith the card game lasting until all hours, it's a
    long time after dinner when you go to bed When Charlotte could
    speak, she explainedAt the more sophisticated houses the ladies'
    bedrooms were supplied with a plate of sandwiches that could be used
    as
    a signal to admirersSet on the floor of the corridor outside a
    lady's room, the sandwiches were an invitation for a man to come in
    Scarlett blushed crim
    Friday, December 17th, 2010
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    “No,” I told him sadly
    “She's strong and brave
    “Do you think…” He paused to sniff“Do you think that maybe Dad is still there, too?”
    I swallowed, trying to move the lump farther down my throatNo, I
    don't think so
    “Why?”
    “Because he brought the Seekers looking for youWell, the soul inside him didYour father
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    was–she didn't even let me know that you existed for the longest timeShe didn't bring me here
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    “NoI don't want to hurt you
    “Why?”
    “Your sister and I have… spent a lot of time togetherShe shared you with meAnd… I started
    to… to love you, too
    “And Jared, too?”
    I gritted my teeth for a second, chagrined that he had made the connection so easily“Of course
    I don't want anything to hurt Jared, eith
    Saturday, December 11th, 2010
    10:47 am
    @@@@@And like an entrepreneur considering
    @@@@@And like an entrepreneur considering improvements, he had been calculating what kind of patrols he could manage with a full seventeen men
    When he learned that recon had been given only four new men, he was infuriatedIt brought them up to thirteen, but since the paper strength of the unit was twenty men this gave him no balmOn Motome, the headquarters squad, consisting of seven men, had been assigned permanently to the regimental intelligence section, and for all practical purposes were out of the platoonThey never went on patrols, they never shared guard or labor details, they took their orders from other noncoms, and by now he no longer knew all of them by nameOn Motome the riflemen in the platoon had gone out sometimes with three or four men on a patrol which needed twice as manyAnd all that time there had been seven additional men in his platoon over whom he had no authority
    To increase his anger he discovered that a fifth man had been assigned to the platoon, but had been diverted already to headquarters squadAfter evening chow, he stalked over to the orderly room tent and started an argument with the Headquarters Company Commander, Captain Mantelli
    "Listen, Cap'n, you're gonna give me that other man in headquarters squad
    Mantelli was a light-haired man with glasses, and a high-pitched merry laughHe held his hands before his face in a mock attitude of defense as Croft burst in on him
    "Hold on, Croft," he laughed"I ain't a goddam JapWhat the hell do you mean busting in here and tearing down this orderly room?"
    "Cap'n, I been shorthanded too long, and I ain't gonna take it any moreI'm tired of taking the men out and risking their ass, when there's seven men, seven men goddammit, just sitting around in headquarters, being orderlies and to hell knows what for you officersHe was smoking a cigar which looked incongruous on his thin face"Croft, suppose I was to give you those seven men? Who the hell would hand me a piece of toilet paper in the morning?"
    Croft gripped the desk and glared down at him"It's one thing to kid around, Cap'n, but I know my rights and the platoon ought to get that fifth manAll they'll use him for over at Operations 'n' Intelligence is to sharpen pencils
    Mantelli giggled againGoddam! Croft, I don't think you got a good opinion of me The evening air was blowing in from the beach, rustling the pyramidal tent flapsAt the moment there was no one else in the orderly room"Listen," Mantelli went on, "I know it's a damn shame your platoon's short, but what can I do?"
    "You can give me that fifth man
    Friday, December 10th, 2010
    10:20 am
    @@@@@Not that it would set her back all that
    @@@@@Not that it would set her back all that much-there's
    hardly anybody hereThat black preacher looks like he could eat
    enough for twenty, thoughIf he doesn't stop going on about resting
    in Abraham's bosom and crossing the River Jordan, I'm going to
    scream
    Those three scrawny women he calls a choir are the only people here
    who
    don't look twitchy from embarrassmentSome choir! Tambourines
    and
    spirituals! Mammy should have something
    solemn in Latin, not "Climbing Jacob's Ladder Oh, it's all so
    tacky
    A good thing there's almost nobody here, just Suellen and Will and me
    and the children and the servantsAt least we all really loved Mammy
    and care that she's goneBig Sam's eyes are red from cryingLook
    at
    poor old Pork, crying his eyes out, tooWhy, his share's almost white;
    I
    never think of him as oldDilcey sure doesn't look her age, whatever
    that might be, she hasn't changed a bit since she first came to

    Scarlett's exhausted, rambling mind suddenly sharpened
    What were Pork and Dilcey doing here at all? They hadn't worked at
    TarNot since Pork became Rhett's valet and Dilcey, Pork's
    wife, went to Melanie's house, as Beau's mammyHow did they come
    to
    be here, at Tara? There was no way they could have learned about
    Mammy's deathUnless Rhett told themScarlett looked over her
    shoulderHad Rhett come back? There was no sign of himAs soon
    as
    the service was over, she made a beeline for PorkLet Will and
    Suellen deal with the long-winded preacher"It's a sad day, Miss
    Scarlett," Pork's eyes were still welling with tears"Yes, it is,
    Pork," she saidMustn't rush him, she knew, or she'd never find out
    what she wanted to knowScarlett walked slowly beside the old black
    servant, listening to his reminiscences of "Mist' Gerald" and Mammy
    and
    the early days at
    Tuesday, December 7th, 2010
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    ignition, and looking over my right shoulder as I
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    little pink Oxycontin pills instead of the usual
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    Saturday, December 4th, 2010
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    It was strange to see such depths of compassion in a human, particularly DocI couldn't look at
    him the same way after watching him live Walter's painSo great was his compassion, he
    seemed to bleed internally with itAs I watched, it became impossible to believe that Doc was a
    cruel person; the man simply could not be a torturerI tried to remember what had been said to
    found my conjectures–had anyone made the accusation outright? I didn't think soI must have
    jumped to false conclusions in my terror
    I doubted I could ever mistrust Doc again after this nightmarish dayHowever, I would always
    find his hospital a horrible place
    When the last of the daylight disappeared, so did the helicopterWe sat in the darkness, not
    daring to turn on even the dim blue lightIt took a few hours before any of us would believe the
    hunt was overBrandt was the first to accept it; he'd had enough of the hospital, too
    “Makes sense for it to give up,” he muttered, edging out the exit“Nothing to see at nightI'll
    just take your light with me, Doc, so that Jeb's pet parasite can't get up to anything, and be on
    my way
    Doc didn't respond, didn't even look at the sullen man as he left
    “Make it stop, Gladdie, make it stop!” Walter begged meI wiped the sweat from his face
    while he crushed my hand
    Time seemed to slow down and stop; the black night felt unendingWalter's screams got more
    and more frequent, more and more excruciating
    Melanie was far away, knowing she could do nothing usefulI would have hidden, too, if
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