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    Monday, January 3rd, 2011
    7:58 pm
    @@@@@It arched coldly and remotely from the
    @@@@@It arched coldly and remotely from the jungle beneath it, lofting itself massively into the low-hanging clouds of the skyIn the early drab twilight it looked like an immense old gray elephant erecting himself somberly on his front legs, his haunches lost in the green bedding of his lairThe mountain seemed wise and powerful, and terrifying in its sizeGallagher stared at it in absorption, caught by a sense of beauty he could not expressThe idea, the vision he always held of something finer and neater and more beautiful than the moil in which he lived trembled now, pitched almost to a climax of wordsThere was an instant in which he might have said a little of what he was feeling, but it passed and he was left with a troubled joy, an echo of raptureHe licked his lips, mourning his wife again
    Croft was moved as deeply, as fundamentally as caissons resettling in the river mudThe mountain attracted him, taunted and inflamed him with its sizeHe had never seen it so clearly beforeMired in the jungle, the cliffs of Watamai Range had obscured the mountainHe stared at it now, examined its ridges, feeling an instinctive desire to climb the mountain and stand on its peak, to know that all its mighty weight was beneath his feetHis emotions were intense; he knew awe and hunger and the peculiar unique ecstasy he had felt after Hennessey was dead, or when he had killed the Japanese prisonerHe gazed at it, almost hating the mountain, unconscious at first of the men about him"That mountain's mighty old," he said at last
    And Red felt only gloom, and a vague harassmentCroft's words bothered him subtlyHe examined the mountain with little emotion, almost indifferenceBut when he looked away he was bothered by the fear all of the men in the platoon had felt at one time or another that dayLike the others, Red was wondering if this patrol would be the one where his luck ran out

    Goldstein and Martinez were talking about AmericaBy chance they had chosen cots next to each other, and they spent the afternoon lying on them, their ponchos drawn over their bodiesGoldstein was feeling rather happyHe had never been particularly close to Martinez before, but they had been chatting for several hours and their confidences were becoming intimateGoldstein was always satisfied if he could be friendly with someone; his ingenuous nature was always trust
    Sunday, January 2nd, 2011
    7:58 pm
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    the LandingShe wouldn't think about that nowIf she did, she'd
    never be able to get through the evening"Do tell, Cousin Townsend,"
    Scarlett said brightly, "all about General LeeIs he really as
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    the carriage block, holding the door open, ready to assist if needed
    when Rhett helped his ladies to step up into the carriage"I still say
    that the Ellintons should be riding with us," Eleanor stewed
    "We'd be squashed to death," Rosemary grumbledRhett told her to
    be
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    When we get to Meeting Street we'll pass them so we can be there
    first
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    "There's plenty, and you know it, RhettYes, they're nice people and
    Townsend's kin, but that doesn't alter Chanel Purse the fact that Hannah's a
    dyed-in-the-wool YankeeI'm afraid she'll be pouted to death
    "Be what?" asked ScarlettCharlestonians had a
    particularly vicious and cunning game, developed after the WarThey
    treated outsiders with so much graciousness and consideration that
    their politeness became a weapon"Visitors end up feeling as louis vuitton pink if
    they're wearing shoes for the first time in their livesIt's said
    that only the strongest ever recover from the experienceI hope we
    won't be treated to a display of it tonight
    The Chinese never developed a torture to match it, although they're a
    very subtle people
    "Rhett! Please stop," begged his mother
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    Saturday, January 1st, 2011
    8:00 pm
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    you might meet
    “You know, Kruppie, one of these days they’ll catch up with youThey adore me, for I feed the Komitet more useful gossip about the upper ranks of the
    debauched, so-called free world than any other officer in a foreign balenciaga replica postI also entertain my
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    corner the Jackal here in Moscow, I’ll no doubt be made a member of the Politburo, hero status
    “Then you can really steal
    “Why not? They all do
    “If you don’t mind,” interrupted Bourne curtly, lowering the two flight bags to the ground
    “What’s happened? Have you made any progress in Dzerzhinsky Square?”
    “It’s not inconsiderable for less than thirty hoursWe’ve louis vuitton duffle bag narrowed down Carlos’s mole to
    thirteen possibles, all of whom speak French fluentlyThey’re under total surveillance, human and
    electronic; we know exactly where they are every minute, also who they meet and who they talk to
    over the telephoneI’m working with two ranking commissars, neither of whom can remotely
    speak French—they can’t even speak literate Russian, but that’s the way it is sometimesThe point
    is they’re both failsafe and dedicated; they’d rather be instrumental in ladies gucci watch capturing the Jackal than refight
    the NaziThey’ve been very cooperative in mounting surveillance
    “Your surveillance is rotten and you know it,” said Alex“They fall over toilet seats in the
    women’s room when they’re chasing a guy
    “Not this time, for I chose them myself,” insisted Krupkin“Outside of four of our own people,
    each trained in Novgorod, they’re defectors from the UK, America, France and South Africa—all
    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
    366
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    “Where you could really steal,” said Conklin
    “You’re wicked, Aleksei, very, very wickedStill, after a vodka or six, remind me to tell you
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    Friday, December 31st, 2010
    8:02 pm
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    "Twenty years ago I would have tried to get you
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    She laughed, a caw both barren and cheery"Then I
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    and led me to the doorHer body was thin and hot
    and rock-hard beneath her clothesHer gait was
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    for you to go and for me to take my afternoon
    siestaI regret to say I need it
    621
    I stepped out into the hall, then turned back
    "Mary, did dolce sale you ever hear Elizabeth speak of the
    deaths of her twin sisters? She would have been
    four or fiveOld enough to remember something so
    traumatic
    ii
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    the lobby doors, in what was a thin but
    comfortable band of shade at quarter past two in
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    traffic nor admiring the passing ladiesHe was
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    and got up as soon as he saw me
    "Great choice for this state," I said, nodding at
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    622
    "I've got to pick a career sometime," he said,
    "and the way you're moving lately, I don't think
    this job is going to last much longer
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    Thursday, December 30th, 2010
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    "What are you laughing at?" I asked with anger and frustration
    "Dad said this would happenHe said to meet with him when you were ready to quit
    "What?" I said indignantly"He's been waiting for me to get fed up?"
    "Sort of," Mike said"Dad's kind of differentHe teaches spy bag fendi differently from your dadYour mom and dad lecture a lotMy dad is quiet and a man of few wordsYou just wait till this Saturday
    "You mean I've been set up?"
    "No, not really, but maybeDad will explain on Saturday
    Waiting in Line on Saturday

    I was ready to face him and I was dior bag preparedEven my real dad was angry with himMy real dad, the one I call the poor one, thought that my rich dad was violating child labor laws and should be investigated
    My educated poor dad told me to demand what I deserveAt least 25 cents an hourMy poor dad told me that if tiffany 925 I did not get a raise, I was to quit immediately
    "You don't need that damned job anyway," said my poor dad with indignity
    At 8 o'clock Saturday morning, I was going through the same rickety door of Mike's house
    "Take a seat and wait in line," Mike's dad said as I enteredHe gucci backpacks turned and disappeared into his little office next to a bedroom
    I looked around the room and did not see Mike anywhereFeeling awkward, I cautiously sat down next to the same two women who where there four weeks earlierThey smiled and slid across the couch to make room for rolex oyster perpetual daytona me
    Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
    7:52 pm
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    "Let's start," Hearn said
    They went down again to the men in the hollow, put on their packs, and began to marchHearn alternated with Brown and Croft in leading the platoon, while Martinez acted as balenciaga replica point and scouted ahead, almost always thirty or forty yards in front of themThe grass was slick from the night's dew, and the men slipped frequently as they moved downhill, panted hoarsely as they toiled up an ascending slopeHearn, however, was feeling goodHis body had reacted from the preceding day's march, and was stronger now, the waste burned out of himHe gucci women watches had awakened with stiff muscles and a sore shoulder, but rested and cheerfulThis morning his legs were firm, and he sensed greater reserves of enduranceAs they crossed the first ridge-line, he hefted his pack higher on his broad shoulders, and turned up his face to the sun for an instantEverything smelled fine, and the grass had the sweet fresh odor of louis vuitton discount early morning"Okay, men, let's hit it," he called to them cheerfully as they passed byHe had dropped back from the point, and he moved from man to man, slowing his stride or increasing it in order to keep pace with them
    "How's it going today, Wyman, you feel any better?"
    Wyman noddedI'm sorry I pooped out yesterday
    "Hell, we all were bushed, it'll be louis vuitton pink better today He clapped Wyman on the shoulder and dropped back to Ridges
    "Lot of country, heh, boy?"
    "Yeah, Lootenant, always enough country
    He walked for a while beside Wilson, kidding him"Still fertilizing the ground, boy?"
    "Yeah, Ah lost mah petcock, ain't nothin' to hold it in now
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    Monday, December 27th, 2010
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    "Pansy,
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    bite you Scarlett, you can't ;,The aunts were
    wringing their hands"If Grandfather's too mean to come out and
    meet
    us, we'll just have to shift for ourselvesGod's nightgown, Aunt
    Eulalie! You grew up here, you and Aunt rolex ladies watches Pauline, can't you just make
    yourselves at home?" Scarlett's words and manner were bold enough,
    but
    when a basso voice bellowed "Jerome!" from the rear of the house,
    she
    felt her palms grow dampHer grandfather, she suddenly
    remembered,
    had eyes that cut right through you and made you wish you were
    anywhere
    except under hisgazeThe imposing black manservant who had
    admitted
    her now gestured Scarlett and her aunts toward the open door at tiffany replica jewelry the
    end
    of the hallScarlett let Eulalie and Pauline go firstThe bedroom
    was a tremendous high-ceilinged space that had formerly been a
    spacious
    parlorIt was crowded with furniture, all the sofas and chairs and
    tables that had been in the parlor, plus a massive four-posted bed with
    gilt eagles crouching on top of the postsIn one corner of the room
    was a flag of France and a headless tailor's dummy wearing the
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    when
    he was a young man and an officer in Napoleon's armyThe old man
    Pierre Robillard was in the bed, sitting erect against a mass of huge
    pillows, glaring at his visitorsWhy, he's shrunk up to almost
    nothingHe was such a big old man, but he's practically lost in that
    big bed, nothing but skin and bones"Hello, Grandfather," Scarlett
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    daughter
    "I haven't lost my memory," said the old manHis strong voice belied
    his fragile body"But apparently your memory fails youIn this
    house, young people do not speak unless they are spoken to
    Scarlett bit her tongue to keep silentI'm not a child to be talked
    to that way, and you should be grateful anybody comes to see you at
    allNo wonder Mother was so happy to have Pa take her away from
    home!
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    Sunday, December 26th, 2010
    8:02 pm
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    “So you’re Archie, like in the comics
    “And you’re Benjamin
    “We’ll both find out if that’s a fact, won’t we?”
    “Do we have a problem?”
    “I want the ground rules clear so there won’t be one,” said the West Coast-bred gucci ladies watches Soviet“I don’t
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    sound, I haven’t much use for Americans
    “Listen to me, Ben,” interrupted Bourne, his eyes forcing the trainer to look at him“All things
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    “I don’t know the facts and I wouldn’t be too quick to call Moscow the mercy capital of the
    world, but if you can help me—really help me—maybe I can help your mother
    “Goddamned bullshit promisesWhat the hell can you do?”
    “To repeat what I said an hour ago to a bald-headed friend of yours in the plane, I don’t owe womens rolex watches my
    government a thing, but it sure as hell owes me
    “I will because I’ve been ordered to, not because of your conBut if you try to learn things that
    have nothing to do with your purpose here—you won’t get outClear?”
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    Benjamin’s involuntary laugh through the straw caused the foam onhis milk shake to swell and
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    “I could never afford it
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    Saturday, December 25th, 2010
    8:02 pm
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    "I'm here," Wireman saidWireman?" She sounded agitatedThen, as if
    to herself: "Jesus, where are you?"
    "The fucking button," he muttered, and went to the
    wall unit, not quite runningWhat's wrong? What's happened? Did she
    fall?"
    "No!" Annmarie cried"She's awake! Awake and
    aware! She's asking for you! Can you come?"
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    "Do you hear that, Edgar? Come on!" He paused
    "What are you looking at?"
    "These," I said, and held out the two pictures of
    Eastlake in his bathing dress: the one where he
    was surrounded by all his daughters, and the one
    taken two years later, where he was flanked by
    just Maria and Hannah
    "Never mind em now - didn't you hear her? Miss
    Eastlake is back!" He booked for the gucci women watches doorI
    dropped his folder on the library table and
    followed himI had made the connection - but only
    because I'd spent the last few months cultivating
    the art of seeingCultivating it strenuouslyHe'd gone the length of the
    dogtrot and was halfway up the staircaseI was
    limping as fast as I could and he was still
    pulling awayHe waited for me, not very patiently
    "Who told him the debris field was fake cartier there?"
    "Eastlake? I assume he stumbled on it while
    pursuing his diving hobby
    "I don't think so - he hadn't been in that bathing
    suit for a long timeDiving and snorkeling may
    have been his hobby in the early twenties, but I
    670
    think that around 1925, eating dinner became his
    chief diversionSo who told him?"
    Annmarie came out of a door near the end of the
    hallThere was a goofy, unbelieving grin on her
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    "Is she-"
    "She is," came Elizabeth's cracked but
    unmistakable voice"Come in here, Wireman, and
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    I lingered in the hall with Annmarie, not sure
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    Friday, December 24th, 2010
    7:54 pm
    @@@@@That's cruel, and that's the trap I want you
    @@@@@That's cruel, and that's the trap I want you to avoid, if possibleI've seen how money runs people's livesDon't let that happen to youPlease don't let money run your life
    A softball rolled under our tableRich dad picked it up and threw it back
    "So what does ignorance have to do with greed and fear?" I asked
    "Because it is ignorance about money that causes so much greed and so much fear," said rich dad"Let me give you some examplesA doctor, wanting more money to better provide for his family, raises his feesBy raising his fees, it makes health care more expensive for everyoneNow, it hurts the poor people the most, so poor people have worse health than those with money
    "Because the doctors raise their rates, the attorneys raise their ratesBecause the attorneys' rates have gone up, schoolteachers want a raise, which raises our taxes, and on and on and onSoon, there will be such a horrifying gap between the rich and the poor that chaos will break out and another great civilization will collapseGreat civilizations collapsed when the gap between the haves and havenots was too greatAmerica is on the same course, proving once again that history repeats itself, because we do not learn from historyWe only memorize historical dates and names, not the lesson
    "Aren't prices supposed to go up?" I asked
    "Not in an educated society with a well-run governmentPrices should actually come downOf course, that is often only true in theoryPrices go up because of greed and fear caused by ignoranceIf schools taught people about money, there would be more money and lower prices, but schools focus only on teaching people to work for money, not how to harness money's power
    "But don't we have business schools?" Mike as
    Thursday, December 23rd, 2010
    7:52 pm
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    The neighbors always like Willie Brown, he is such an honest boy, he has such an average pleasant face, you can see it in all the stores, in the framed pictures on the desks of all the banks and offices in the country
    Nice-looking boy you have there, they always say to his father, James Brown
    Fine boy, but you ought to see my daughter, she's the bee-yootey
    Willie Brown is very popularThe mothers of his friends always take to him, the teachers always make him a pet
    But he has a knack for squaring itAw, that old crow, he says of the teacher, I wouldn't spit on her(Proceeding to spit on the dusty baked sod of the schoolyard I don' know why in tee hell she don' lea' me alone
    And his family is niceThe father works for the railroad in Tulsa but he is an office man even if he has started in the yardsAnd they have their own house in the suburbs, a decent plot of ground behind itJim Brown is dependable, always improving his house a little bit, fixing the plumbing or planing the sill of a door that jams
    Isn't the kind of man who runs into debt
    Ella and me try to hold to one of those budgets, he says deprecatinglyIf we find we're gone a little over, we jus' cut down on the liquor for the week(Half-apologetically) I kinda look on liquor as a luxury, especially now when you gotta break a law to get it, and you're never sure when it'll leave you blind
    Keeps up with things tooThe Saturday Evening Post and Collier's and back in the early twenties a charter subscriber to Reader's DigestIt all comes in handy for small talk when you're visiting, and the only dishonesty people have ever noticed him in is that he has a habit of talking about the articles without crediting the source
    Do you know thirty million people smoked cigarettes in 1928? he'll say
    The Literary Digest keeps him informed on politicsI voted for Herbert Hoover in the last election, he admits pleasantly, even though I've been a Democrat as long as I can rememberBut I think I'll vote Democrat in the next
    Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010
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    Friday, December 17th, 2010
    7:59 pm
    @@@@@Probably she should have had them with her
    @@@@@Probably she should have had them with her at Melanie's
    funeralThat gave all the old cats in Atlanta one more thing to
    gossip about, what an unnatural mother she wasLet them talk all
    they
    likedShe couldn't have gotten through those terrible days and nights
    after Melly's death if she'd had Wade and Ella to cope with tooShe
    wouldn't think about them, that's allShe was going home, to Tara
    and
    to Mammy, and she simply wouldn't let herself think about things that
    would upset herLord knows, I've got more than enough to upset me
    without dragging them in, tooHer head drooped
    and her eyes closed"Jonesboro, ma'am," said the conductor
    Scarlett
    blinked, sat straight She looked around the car for
    Pansy and her valisesI'll skin that girl alive if she's wandered off
    to another carOh, if only a lady didn't have to have a companion
    every single time she put her foot outside her own house
    I'd do so much better by myselfGet those
    valises off the rack Only five miles to Tara nowHome! Will Benteen, Suellen's husband, was
    waiting
    on the platformIt was a shock to see Will; the first few seconds
    were always a shockScarlett genuinely loved and respected WillIf
    she could have had a brother, like she'd always wanted, she'd wish he
    could be just like WillExcept for the wooden pegleg, and of course
    not a CrackerIt was just there was no mistaking Will for a
    gentleman; he was unmistakably lower class
    She forgot it when she was away from him, and she forgot it after she
    was with him for a minute, because he was such a good, kind man
    Even
    Mammy thought a lot of Will, and Mammy was the hardest judge in
    the
    world when it came to who was a lady or a gentleman
    "Will!" He walked toward her, in his special swinging ga
    Saturday, December 11th, 2010
    8:32 pm
    @@@@@ “I am many things, monsieurI don’t ask
    @@@@@
    “I am many things, monsieurI don’t ask forgiveness in this world; the other’s another question
    There were always circumstances—”
    “Gallic logic,” remarked Brendan Patrick Pierre Prefontaine, former judge of the first circuit
    court in Boston, as he absently touched the raw tender skin of his neck below his singed white hair
    “Thank heavens I never had to argue before les tribunals; neither side is ever actually wrong The
    disbarred attorney chuckled“You see before you a felon, justly tried and justly convictedThe
    only exculpatory aspect of my crimes is that I was caught and so many others were not and are
    not
    “Perhaps we are related, after all, Monsieur le Juge
    “By comparison, sir, my life is far closer to that of StThomas Aquinas—”
    “Blackmail,” interrupted Marie
    “No, actually the charge was malfeasanceAccepting remunerations for favorable decisions, that
    sort of thingMy God, we’re hound’s-tooth Boston! In New York City it’s standard procedure:
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    “I’m not referring to Boston, I’m talking about why you’re here
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    out where you’d gone also paid me an additional large sum of money to keep the information to
    myselfUnder the circumstances, and because I have no pressing schedule of appointments, I
    thought it logical to pursue the inquiryAfter all, if the little I knew brought so much, how much
    more might come to me if I learned a little more?”
    “You talk of Gallic logic, monsieur?” inserted the Frenchman
    “It’s simple interrogatory progression,” replied the former judge, briefly glancing at Jean Pierre
    before turning back to Marie“However, my dear, I may have glossed over an item that was
    extremely helpful in negotiations with my clientTo put it plainly, your identity was being withheld
    and protected by the governmentIt was a strong point that frightened a very strong and influential
    man
    “I want his name,” said Marie
    “Then I must have protection, too,” rejoined Prefontaine
    “You’ll have it—”
    “And perhaps something more,” continued the old disbarred atto
    Friday, December 10th, 2010
    8:06 pm
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    Drunk?
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    me
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    in
    your eyesCheering and groans hailed the hermes purse end of
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    side
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    Tuesday, December 7th, 2010
    8:09 pm
    @@@@@ It felt good: the stretch and pull of
    @@@@@
    It felt good: the stretch and pull of muscle, the sweat of exertion rather than plain heat, the
    teamwork with IanI was quick, and his aim was deadlyWes's goading
    dried up before Ian scored the third goal
    Lily called the game when we hit twenty-oneShe was breathing hardNot me; I felt good,
    muscles warm and limber
    Wes wanted another round, but Lily was done
    “Face it, they're better
    “No one ever said she couldn't play
    “No one ever said she was a pro, either
    I liked that–it made me smile
    “Don't be a sore loser,” Lily said, reaching out to tickle Wes's stomach playfullyHe caught her
    fingers and pulled her closer to himShe laughed, tugging away, but Wes reeled her in and
    planted a solid kiss on her laughing mouth
    Ian and I exchanged a quick, startled glance
    “For you, I will lose with grace,” Wes told her, and then set her free
    Lily's smooth caramel skin had taken on a bit of pink on her cheeks and neckShe peeked at Ian
    and me to see our reaction
    “And now,” Wes continued, “I'm off to get reinforcementsWe'll see how your little ringer does
    against Kyle, Ian He lobbed the ball into the far dark corner of the cave, where I heard it
    splash into the spring
    Ian trotted off to retrieve it, while I continued to look at Lily curiously
    She laughed at my expression, sounding self-conscious, which was unusual for her
    “How long has… that been going on?” I wonderedIt's not a secret–how could anything be a secret here, anyway? It's just really… new
    to me
    Monday, December 6th, 2010
    8:22 pm
    @@@@@I have funds from officers' mess to pay for
    @@@@@I have funds from officers' mess to pay for them
    "But I'm not obliged to give them to youAnd I damn sure won'tIf y' want Spam, that I can give you, and not a penny out of your pocketBut for these little extras, I suggest that you wait till a Navy ship appears againI don't have any truck with this selling of myonize He scribbled something on the requisition"If ye'll take this down into hold number two, ye'll get your whiskyIf I didn't have to give you that, I wouldn't
    "Well, thank you, Kerrigan
    "Any time, Lieutenant, any time
    Hearn paced down the corridor, his eyes glitteringThe ship rolled on a swell and he lurched into a bulkhead, smacking his hand painfully against the metal to break the impactThen he halted, wiped the perspiration from his forehead and mouth again
    He'd be damned if he'd go back without the suppliesKerrigan's smile angered him again, and with an effort he forced himself to grinThis was getting out of hand; Kerrigan after all had had style, was amusingThere were other ways to get the supplies, and he'd get themHe wasn't going to face the General and have to give explanations2 and descended the ladder to the refrigerator vaultsTo the man on duty, he handed the requisition
    "Just five cases of whisky, huh?"
    Hearn massaged his chinA jungle sore had formed near the cleft and it smarted"How about getting the rest of that, Jack?" he said abruptlyKerrigan crossed it off
    Saturday, December 4th, 2010
    7:56 pm
    @@@@@The faces around the table were without
    @@@@@The faces around the table were without lines,
    the clothes without patchesFor these sweet moments of illusion, it
    was as if Mimosa was transported to a timeless place and hour where
    there was no pain and there had never been a WarMany years
    before,
    Scarlett had vowed to herself that she would never look back
    Remembering the halcyon preWar days, mourning them, yearning for
    them
    would only hurt and weaken her, and she needed all her strength and
    determination to survive and to protect her familyBut the shared
    memories in the dining room at Mimosa were not at all a source of
    weaknessThey gave her courage; they were proof that good people
    could suffer every kind of loss and still retain the capacity for love
    and laughterShe was proud to be included in their number, proud to
    call them her friends, proud that they were what they wereWill
    walked in front of the buggy on the way home, carrying a pitch pine
    torch and leading the horseIt was a dark night, and it was very
    late
    Overhead the stars were bright in a cloudless sky, so bright that the
    quarter-moon looked almost transparently paleThe only sound was
    the
    slow clop-clop of the horse's hoovesSuellen dozed olf, but Scarlett
    fought her sleepinessShe didn't want the evening to end, she
    wanted
    the warm comfort and happiness of it to last foreverHow strong Tony
    looked! And so full of life, so pleased with his funny boots, with
    himself, with everythingThe Tarleton girls acted like a bunch of
    red-haired tabby kittens looking at a bowl of creamI wonder which
    one will catch himBeatrice Tarleton's sure going to see to it that
    one of them does! An owl in the woods beside the road said "whoo,
    whoo?" and Scarlett giggled to herselfThey were more than halfway
    to Tara before she realized that she hadn't thought about Rhett for
    hoursThen melancholy and worry clamped down on her like lead
    weights, and she noticed for the first time that the night air was cold
    and her body was chilledShe pulled her shawl close around her and
    silently urged Will to hurryI don't want to think about anything,
    not tonight
    I don't want to spoil the good time I hadHurry, Will, it's cold and
    it's darkThe next morning Scarlett and Suellen drove the children
    over in the wagon to MimosaWade was shiny-eyed with hero worship
    when Tony showed off his six-
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