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    Monday, January 3rd, 2011
    12:46 pm
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    Jamie was staring at me with big eyes
    “It wasn't that exciting, really,” I told himHe took my hand, and I squeezed his, my heart
    swollen with gratitude and loveI'm a bugger, too, after all
    “I didn't mean –” Jared started to apologize
    I waved his protest away, smiling
    “How did you explain the scar on your face?” Doc asked“Didn't they wonder why you hadn't
    –”
    “I had to have fresh injuries, of courseI was careful to leave them nothing to be suspicious
    aboutI told them I'd fallen with a knife in my hand I nudged Jamie with my elbow“It could
    happen to anyone
    I was really flying high nowEverything seemed to glow from inside–the fabrics, the faces, the
    very wallsThe crowd inside and outside the room had begun to murmur and question, but that
    noise was just a ringing in my ears–like the lingering sound after a bell is struckA shimmer in
    the airNothing seemed real but the little circle of people I lovedJamie and Jared and Ian and
    JebEven Doc belonged in this perfect moment
    “Fresh injuries?” Ian asked in a flat voice
    I stared at him, surprised at the anger in his eyesI had to hide my scarAnd learn how to heal Jamie
    Jared picked up my left wrist and stroked his finger over the faint pink line a few inches above
    11:15 am
    @@@@@ "Think he's gonna last?" Ridges asked
    @@@@@
    "Think he's gonna last?" Ridges asked hoarsely
    "You can't kill ol' Wilson," Red mutteredGallagher looked away"Come on, let's get going
    They started out, progressing slowly and carefully over the hills back to the hollow where they had left the rest of the platoonIt was hard labor, and they took frequent rests, alternating the guard for the litter-bearers
    Wilson gained consciousness slowly, muttering incoherently for minutes at a timeHe seemed awake for almost a minute, but he recognized none of them
    "Doko koko cola," he muttered several times, giggling feebly
    They stopped, wiped the blood from his mouth, and then set out againIt took them more than an hour to reach the platoon, and they were very tired when they got thereThey laid Wilson down, slipped him off the stretcher, and flopped on the ground to restThe other men gathered about them nervously, asking questions, mildly jubilant that Wilson had been found, but they were too weary to talk much"Goddam it, you men, stop standing around with your finger in your ass They looked at him in bewilderment
    "Minetta and Polack and Wyman andRoth, git over there in that grove, and cut two poles about six feet long, and about two inches in diameter, and bring back a couple of struts about eighteen inches wide?"
    "What for?" Minetta asked
    "What the hell do you think it's for? For a stretcherNow git goin', you men
    Muttering, they picked up a couple of machetes, and filed out of the hollow to the groveIn a minute or so, the platoon could hear them hacking away at the treesCroft spat disgustedly"Them men are enough to frost your nuts There was a restless titterWilson, unconscious now, lay in the center of the hollow, very stil
    Sunday, January 2nd, 2011
    12:46 pm
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    It's the only place you can get away from the heat in Chicago, Ina saysWe're so backward to New York, you think they would have had a roof garden on a hotel here before thisI can't wait until we get out to CharlevoixPronounced: Choliveoil
    Michigan, that's a green state, Bill Hearn saysThere is silence again, gucci women watch and MrsJudd turns to Robert Hearn and says, you're such a big boy for twelve, Bobby, I thought you were a little more
    No, ma'am, only twelveHe ducks his head uncomfortably as the waiter places the roast duck before him
    Don't mind Bobby, he's just kind of shy, Bill Hearn booms, he certainly ain't a chip off my old blockPushing his scant black hair over the bald spot on his head, his little red nose a button in the round hermes bag sweating jowls of his face
    When we were out to Hollywood, MrsHearn says, we got taken over the Paramount lot by some assistant director fellow, Jew, but he was sort of niceHe was telling us all about the stars
    Is it true Mona Vaginus is a tramp? Mrs
    (Looking at Bobby, and whispering Oh, an awful tramp, the things she's supposed to doBut she hasn't got much of a future anyway now that those talkie pictures are the only vintage omega seamaster ones being made
    This ain't the place to talk business, MrJudd of Budd (Hearn laughs), I guess you hear that all the time, Judd of Budd, but the truth is you're in business to do business, and a curiosity enough, I'm out for the same thing, so it's just a case of our compromising on the price, but there's one thing this Thompson machine is on the way out and if the reformers come in it's going to be a case of playing gucci twirl watch ball with 'em, or else havin' to put perfume in the factory toilet bowls and such stuff for all the Polack element that don't know a washcloth from their underwear, so I gotta be careful about my commitmentsI been plannin' for a bust 'cause we got an overexpanded economy, an' your prices over at Budd ain't makin' it any easier for meJudd and I are planning to go to ParisThe petits-fours and the melting ice are set before prada bag the
    11:15 am
    @@@@@ "Just pick the one that shows the darning
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    "Just pick the one that shows the darning least Eulalie dropped an
    armload of rattling leaves"I didn't hear you come in, Scarlett Pauline nodded coldly
    She had forgiven Scarlett for her insults, as a good Christian woman
    should, but in all likelihood she'd never forget them"There are no
    darns in Mere's linens, Scarlett," she said"They're all in perfect
    condition Scarlett looked at the stacks that covered the long table
    and remembered the worn, mended cloths that her aunts had in
    Charles- I
    tonIf it was up to her, she'd pack up all this stuff and take it
    back to Charleston when they left on Saturday
    Grandfather wouldn't miss it, and the aunts could use itI'll never
    in my life be as afraid of anybody as they are of that old tyrantBut
    if I said what I think, Aunt Eulalie would start to sniffle, and Aunt
    Pauline would lecture me for an hour about duty to my elders"I have
    to go buy a present for him," she said aloud
    "Is there any shopping you want me to do for you?" And don't dare,
    she
    said silently, offer to come with meI've got to go to the convent to
    see the Mother SuperiorShe can't still be in retreat
    If I have to, I'll stand by the gate and grab her when she comes out
    I'm almighty tired of being turned awayThey were much too busy,
    her
    aunts said, to go shopping, and they were astonished that Scarlett had
    not yet selected and wrapped a gift for her grandfatherScarlett left
    before they could describe the extent of their busyness and depth of
    their astonishment"Old loolas," she said under her breathShe
    wasn't at all sure what the Irish phrase meant, but the sound of it was
    enough to make her smileThe trees in the square looked somehow
    thicker, the grass greener than the day beforeThe sun was warmer,
    tooScarlett felt the quickened optimism that always accompanied the
    first hint of spring
    Saturday, January 1st, 2011
    12:54 pm
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    to believe for an instant that your crafty old lawyer didn't notify you
    when I cut off the money I was sending to AtlantaI'm too fond of
    Henry Hamilton to credit such negligence
    "Stopped sending the money? You can't do that!" Scarlett's knees
    turned to jellyRhett couldn't mean itWhat would happen to her?
    The house on Peachtree Street-the tons of coal it took to heat it, the
    servants to clean and cook logo chanel and wash and keep the garden and the
    horses
    and polish the carriages, the food for all of them-why, it cost a
    fortuneHow could Uncle Henry pay the bills? He'd use her money!
    No, no that couldn't beShe'd scrabbled along with no food in her
    belly, broken shoes on her feet, her back breaking and her hands
    bleeding while she worked in the fields to keep from starvingShe'd
    given up all her pride, turned her back on everything she'd pearl chanel been
    taught, done business with low-down people not fit to spit on,
    schemed
    and cheated, worked day and night for her moneyShe wouldn't let it
    go, she couldn'tIt was the only thing she had"You
    can't take my money!" she screamed at RhettBut it came out a
    cracked
    whisper"I haven't taken any away from you, my pet
    I've only stopped adding to itAs long as you're living in the house
    I provide in Charleston, there's no reason for me to cartier pasha watch maintain an empty
    house in AtlantaOf course, if you were to return to it, it would no
    longer be emptyThen I'd feel obliged to begin paying for it
    again
    Rhett walked over to the fireplace where he could see her face in the
    light of the flamesHis challenging smile disappeared and his
    forehead
    creased with concern"You really didn't know, did you? Hold on,
    Scarlett, I'll get you a brandyYou look like you're going to pass
    outHe had chanel clutch to steady her hands with his to hold the glass to her
    lips
    She was trembling uncontrollablyWhen the glass was empty, he
    dropped
    it on the floor and chafed her hands until they warmed and stopped
    shaking
    "Now tell me, in sober truth, is there really a soldier breaking into
    bedrooms?"
    "Rhett, you didn't mean it, did you? You aren't going to stop sending
    the money to Atlanta?"
    "To hell with the money, Scarlett, I asked you a chanel sale questi
    11:23 am
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    “He’s well,” answered Carlos, his voice flat“We’re moving Le Coeur du Soldat
    “Does he still tend to his gardens—his English gardens?”
    “Yes, he does
    “He should have been a landscaper, or a florist, I thinkAnd I should have been a fine
    agricultural engineer, an agronomist, as they say—that’s how Santos and I met, you know
    Melodramatic politics changed our lives, didn’t they?”
    “Political commitments changed themEverywhere the fascists balenciaga replica changed them
    “And now we want to be like the fascists, and they want to take what’s not so terrible about us
    Communists and spread a little money around—which doesn’t really work, but it’s a nice thought
    “What has this to do with me—your monseigneur?”
    “Horse droppings, RamirezAs you may or may not know, my Russian wife died a number of
    years ago and I have three children in the Moscow UniversityWithout my position they would not
    be birkin bag hermes there and I want them thereThey will be scientists, doctorsYou see, those are the risks you
    ask of meI’ve covered myself up until this moment—and you deserve this moment—but perhaps
    no moreIn a few months I will retire, and in recognition of my years of service in southern Europe
    and the Mediterranean, I will share a fine dacha on the Black Sea where my children will come and
    visit meI will not unduly risk what life I have before meSo be Prada Purse specific, Ramirez, and I’ll tell you
    whether you’re on your own or notI repeat, your getting in here cannot be traced to me, and, as
    I say, you deserved that much, but this is where I may be forced to stop
    “I see,” said Carlos, approaching the suitcase Enrique had placed on the sacristy table
    “I hope you do and, further, I hope you understandOver the years you’ve been good to my
    family in ways that I could never be, but then I’ve served you gucci women watch well in ways that I couldI led you to
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    we’ve lost our appetites for causes—you long before me, of course
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    Friday, December 31st, 2010
    12:54 pm
    @@@@@In my country we figure those initials mean
    @@@@@In my country we figure those initials mean Caught In the Act,
    and I told him so!”
    “That’s even nicerWhat did he say?”
    “He said we were going to a safe house in Virginia, and I said mine’s pretty goddamned safe
    right here and we had a restaurant and room service and a beach and ten guards who could shoot
    his balls off at two hundred yards
    “You’re full of tactAnd what did he say to that?”
    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
    302
    “Actually, he laughedThen he explained that his place had twenty guards who could take out
    one of my balls at four hundred yards, along with a kitchen and room service and television for the
    kids that I couldn’t match
    “That’s pretty persuasive
    “Well, he said something else that was even more persuasive that I really couldn’t matchHe
    told me there was no public access to the place, that it was an old estate in Fairfax turned over to
    the government by a rich ambassador who had more money than Ottawa, with its own airfield and
    an entrance road four miles from the highway
    “I know the place,” said Bourne, wincing at the noise of the patisserie“It’s the Tannenbaum
    estateHe’s right; it’s the best of the sterile houses
    “I asked you before—where’s Marie?”
    “She’s with me
    “She found you!”
    “Later, JohnnyI’ll reach you in Fairfax Jason hung up the phone as his wife awkwardly made
    her way through the crowd and handed him a pink plastic cup with a blue plastic spoon plunged
    into a mound of dark brown
    “The children?” she asked, raising her voice to be heard, her eyes on fire
    “Everything’s fine, better than we might have expectedAlex reached the same conclusion about
    the Jackal as I didPeter Holland’s flying them all up to a safe house in Virginia, Mrs
    “Thank God!”
    “Thank Alex Bourne looked at the pink plastic cup with the thin blue spoon“What the hell is
    this? They didn’t have vanilla?”
    “It’s a hot fudge sundaeIt was meant for the man beside me but he was yelling at his wife, so I
    took it
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    11:23 am
    @@@@@The phone or e-mail really isn't the way to
    @@@@@The phone or e-mail really
    isn't the way to talk something like this out
    Plus, I want to see if the attraction is still
    there, and if so, how much She glanced sideways,
    a little anxiously"That doesn't gross you out,
    does it?"
    "No, honey
    765
    "Can I ask you something?"
    "Yes
    "How many second chances did you give Mom?"
    I smiled"Over the course of the marriage? I'd
    say two hundred or so
    "And how many did she give you?"
    "About the same"I can't ask you
    that
    I looked at the pool, aware of a very middle-class
    flush rising in my cheeks"Since we're having
    this discussion at six in the morning and not even
    the pool boy's here yet, and since I think I know
    what your problem with Carson Jones is, you can
    askBut if I'm
    dead honest, I have to say that was more luck than
    stone-ass righteousnessThere were times when I
    came close, and once when it was probably only
    luck or fate or providence that kept it from
    happeningI don't think the marriage would have
    ended if thethe accident had happened, I think
    there are worse offenses against a partner, but
    they don't call it cheating for nothingOne slip
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    can be excused as human fallibilityTwo can be
    excused as human frailtyAfter that-" I shrugged
    "He says it was just once Her voice was little
    more than a whisperHer feet had slowed to a
    dreamy underwater drift"He said she started
    coming on to himIt happens that way all the timeIn books
    and movies, anywayMaybe sometimes in real life,
    to
    Thursday, December 30th, 2010
    12:46 pm
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    @@@@@Should I bring
    it?"
    "Not on such a wet day," she said"I thought I'd
    have you throw her in the pond, the pond would do,
    but I've changed my mindIt seems unnecessary on
    such a wet dayThe 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 y
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    Monday, December 27th, 2010
    12:46 pm
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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, laboriously, he forced himself to concentrate on the work before himIt was a problem for which he was quite suited
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    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 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 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 humo
    11:15 am
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    the evening evolved by itselfOften the whole family ended up at
    Matt's house, because he had five young children asleep upstairs
    Maureen and Jamie could leave Jacky and Helen in Mary Kate's care,
    and
    Patricia could bring her sleeping two-year-old and three-year-old
    without waking themBefore too long the music would beginLater,
    when Colum came in, he would be the leaderThe first time Scarlett
    saw the bodhran, she thought it was an outsize tambourineThe
    metal-framed circle of stretched leather was 10 more than two feet
    across, but it was shallow, like a tambourine, and 1
    Gerald was holding it in his hand, like a tambourineThen he sat
    down,
    braced it on his knee and tapped on it with a wooden stick that he held
    in the middle, rocking it to strike one end, then the other, against
    the skin, and she saw that it was really a drumNot much of a drum,
    she thoughtUntil Colum picked it up
    His left hand spread against the underside of the taut leather as if
    caressing it, and his right wrist was suddenly as fluid as waterHis
    arm moved from top to bottom to top to center of the drum while
    his right hand made a curious, careless-looking motion that pounded
    the
    stick with a steady, blood-stirring rhythmThe tone and volume
    differed, but the hypnotic, demanding beat never varied, as fiddle,
    then whistle, then concertina joined inMaureen held the bones
    lifeless in her hand, too caught up in the music to remember them
    Scarlett gave herself over to the drumbeatIt made her laugh, it
    made
    her cry, it made her dance as she'd never dreamed she could dance
    It
    was only when Colum laid the bodhran down on the floor beside him
    and
    demanded a drink, saying "I've drummed myself dry," that she saw
    that
    everyone else was as transported as she wasShe looked at the
    short,
    smiling pug-nosed figure with a shiver of awestruck wonderThis man
    was not like other men"Scarlett darling, you understand oysters
    better than I do," said Maureen when they entered the City Market
    "Will you find us the best of them? I want to make a grand oyster
    stew
    for Colum's tea todayp 'For tea? Oyster stew's rich enough for a
    meal
    "And isn't that the reason for it? He's speaking at a meeting tonight,
    and he'll need the strength of it
    "What kind of meeting, Maureen?
    Will we all go?"
    "It's at the Jasper Greens, the American Irish volunteer soldiering
    group, so there'll be no wo
    Sunday, December 26th, 2010
    12:54 pm
    @@@@@May I offer you some tea?" Before Scarlett
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    Scarlett could accept, Rhett spoke"I'm afraid we have to go, Miss
    JuliaI haven't gotten the woods trails in condition yet for riding
    in the dark, and the days are so short
    "You could have avenues, not trails, if you'd put your men to work on
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    "Now, Miss Julia, I thought we'd reached a truceFurthermore, I'll admit that you
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    of
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