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    Monday, January 3rd, 2011
    9:10 am
    @@@@@She saw in her mind the lamplit table at the
    @@@@@She saw in her mind the lamplit table at the Fontaines',
    the simple meal of home-cured ham and home-made corn bread and
    home-grown greensShe belonged with them; they were her people,
    not
    these vulgar, trashy, flashy women and menScarlett turned to face
    Weller and hisgroup"That's what you areGet out of my house, get out of my sight, you make me sick!"
    Mamie Bart made the mistake of trying to soothe her"Come on,
    honey-"
    she said, holding out her jewelled handScarlett recoiled before she
    could be touched
    "Especially you, you greasy sow"Well, I never," Mamie Bart's voice
    quavered"I'm damn well not going to put up with being talked to like
    thisI wouldn't stay if you begged me on your knees, Scarlett
    Butler A shoving, angry stampede began, and in less than ten
    minutes
    the rooms were empty of everything except the debris left behind
    Scarlett made her way through spilled food and champagne, broken
    plates
    and glasses, without looking downShe must keep her head high, the
    way her mother had taught herShe imagined that she was back at
    Tara,
    with a heavy volume of the Waverley novels balanced on her head,
    and
    she climbed the stairs with her back as straight as a tree, her chin
    perfectly perpendicular to her shouldersThe way her
    mother had taught herHer head was swimming and her legs
    trembled,
    but she climbed without pausingA lady never let it show when she
    was
    tired or upset"High time she did that, and then some," said the
    cornetistThe octet had played waltzes from behind the palms for
    many
    of Scarlett's receptionsOne of the violinists spat accurately into a
    potted palmLie down with dogs, get up with
    fleas Above their heads Scarlett was lying face down on her
    silkcovered bed, sobbing as if her heart was broken
    She had thought she was going to have such a good timeLater that
    night, when the house was quiet and dark, Scarlett went downstairs
    for
    a drink to help her s
    Sunday, January 2nd, 2011
    9:10 am
    @@@@@ “Couldn’t you have stopped her?” “Christ,
    @@@@@
    “Couldn’t you have stopped her?”
    “Christ, I tried, DavidGoddamn it, I tried!”
    “Did you ever think about locking her up?”
    “Marie?”
    “I see what you meanShe can’t get here until tomorrow morning at the earliest
    “Have you heard the news?” cried St“General Teagarten was killed and they say it
    was Jason—”
    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
    205
    “Oh, shut up,” said Bourne, replacing the phone and leaving the booth, walking down the street
    to collect what thoughts he could generate
    Peter Holland, director of the Central Intelligence Agency, rose to his feet behind his desk and
    roared at the crippled man seated in front of him“Do nothing? Have you lost your fucking
    senses?”
    “Did you lose yours when you issued that statement about a joint British-American operation in
    Hong Kong?”
    “It was the goddamned truth!”
    “There are truths, and then again there are other truths, such as denying the truth when it doesn’t
    serve the service
    “Shit! Fairy politicians!”
    “I’d hardly say that, Genghis KhanI’ve heard of such men going to the wall, accepting
    execution rather than betraying the current truth they had to live byYou’re off base, Peter
    Exasperated, Holland sank back into his chair“Maybe I really don’t belong here
    “Maybe you don’t, but give yourself a little more timeMaybe you’ll become as dirty as the rest
    of us; it could happen, you know
    The director leaned back, arching his head over the chair; he spoke in a broken cadence“I was
    dirtier than any of you in the field, AlexI still wake up at night seeing the faces of young men
    staring at me as I ripped a knife up their chests, taking their lives away, somehow knowing that
    they had no idea why they were there
    “It was either you or themThey would have put a bullet in your head if they could have The DCI shot forward, his eyes locked with Conklin’s“But that’s not what
    we’re talking about, is it?”
    “You might say it’s a variation on the theme
    “It’s a musician’s term
    “Then get to the main symphonic line, AlexHe told me that he thinks he’s found a cave—his word, not
    mine—where he’s convinced he can track the JackalHe didn’t say where it is, and God knows
    when he’ll call me agai
    Saturday, January 1st, 2011
    9:11 am
    @@@@@And the land itself was temporary, because
    @@@@@And the land
    itself was temporary, because if you took the
    geological view, Duma wouldn't last longNone of
    the Keys would; in the end the Gulf would take
    them all and new ones would rise in new locations
    It was probably true of Florida itselfThe land
    was low, and on loan
    128
    Ah, but that sound was restful
    Without opening my eyes, I felt for Ilse's e-mail
    and ran the tips of my fingers over it againI
    did this with my right handThen I opened my eyes,
    brushed the e-mail printout aside with the hand
    that was there, and pulled the Artisan pad onto my
    lapI flipped back the cover, shook all twelve of
    the pre-sharpened Venus pencils onto the table in
    front of me, and began to drawI had an idea I
    meant to draw Ilse - who had I been thinking of,
    after all? - and thought I'd make a spectacularly
    bad job of it, because I hadn't attempted a single
    human figure since starting to draw againBut it
    wasn't Ilse, and it wasn't badNot great, maybe,
    not Rembrandt (not even Norman Rockwell), but not
    bad
    It was a young man in jeans and a Minnesota Twins
    tee-shirtThe number on the tee was 48, which
    meant nothing to me; in my old life I used to go
    to as many T-Wolves games as I could, but I've
    never been a baseball fanThe guy had blond hair
    which I knew wasn't quite right; I didn't have the
    colors to get the exact darkening-toward-brown
    shadeHe was carrying a book in one handHe was Ilse's special
    newsThat was what the shells were saying as the
    tide lifted them and turned them and dropped them
    againShe had a ring, a diamond,
    he had bought it at -
    I had been shading the young man's jeans with
    Venus BlueNow I dropped it, picked up the black,
    and stroked the word
    ZALES
    at the bottom of the sheetIt was information; it
    was also the name of the picture
    Then, without a pause, I dropped the black, picked
    up orange, and added workbootsThe orange was too
    bright, it made the boots look new when they
    weren't, but the idea was right
    I scratched at my right arm, scratched through my
    right arm, and got my ribs insteadI muttered
    "Fuck" under my brea
    Friday, December 31st, 2010
    9:18 am
    @@@@@“Don't look like that,” he whispered I
    @@@@@“Don't look like that,” he whispered
    I couldn't respondCouldn't even hear the words, really
    Doc knelt beside Trudy and pulled Jamie's chin downWith a bowl he scooped up some of the
    ice water from the cooler and let it trickle into Jamie's mouthWe all heard the thick, painful
    sound of Jamie's swallowingBut his eyes didn't open
    I felt as though I would never be able to move againThat I would turn into part of the stone
    wall
    If they dug a hole for Jamie in the empty desert, they would have to put me in it, too
    Not good enough,Melanie growled
    I was despairing, but she was filled with fury
    Trying solves nothingThey have to go back out
    For what purpose? Even if they did find your old antibiotics, what are the chances they would
    still be any good? They only worked half the time anywayHe doesn't need your
    medicineHe needs more than thatSomething that really works…
    My breathing sped up, deepened as I saw it
    He needsmine, I realized
    Mel and I were both awestruck by the obviousness of this idea
    My stone lips cracked apart“Jamie needs real medicinesThe ones the souls haveWe need to
    get him those“We don't even know what those things do, how they w
    Thursday, December 30th, 2010
    9:10 am
    @@@@@ Gallagher's spirits roseHe would be
    @@@@@
    Gallagher's spirits roseHe would be seeing his wifeBut Mary was dead; this time his mind did not retreat quite so farHe sat there thinking of how pleasant the sunlight had been that morning as he climbed on the truck, and dumbly he understood that he wanted to go back to that moment
    "Son, you've got to have courageHe could not feel the soles of his feet, and when he rubbed his mouth it felt swollen and alien under his fingersHe had a moment of panic, and he thought of the snake in the caveI bet a fuggin Yid was the doctor, he said to himself, and then forgot the thoughtIt left him with a pleasant glow of righteousness, however"Well, thanks, Father," he said
    "Go to your tent, son, and lie down," Father Leary said Gallagher walked through the bivouac areaIt was almost deserted now that the men were out on detail, and this gave him a secure feeling of isolationHe came to his tent, dropped in the hole, and stretched out on his blanketHe was feeling nothing except an extreme wearinessHis head ached and he wondered idly if he should take an atabrine tablet from his jungle aid kitMaybe I got malaria, he said to himselfHe remembered the expression on Mary's face in the first days of their marriage when she would set a plate down before him with food upon itHer wrists were very slim and he could see again the golden hairs on her forearm
    "I bet a fuggin Yid was the doctor," he said aloudThe sound startled him, and he rolled over on his backHe was becoming angry as he thought about it, and once or twice he muttered, "The Yid killed her It relieved the tension he was feelingHe felt a joyful self-pity, and he let it flow through him for several minutesHis shirt was wet, and every few seconds he would grind his teeth because the tension on his jaws pleased h
    Monday, December 27th, 2010
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    “Why not, may the man with one foot missing ask?” said Alex
    “I’d think you’d be able to answer that better than me,” retorted the DCI“Apparently all
    accesses to the cellars are sealed off except for two elevators that bypass the first floor and for
    which you need a keyThis one and another on the other side; this takes us to where we want to go,
    the other leads to the furnaces, air-conditioning units and all the rest of the normal basement
    equipmentFrank pasha cartier gave me the key, incidentallyIf it doesn’t return to its slot within a given period
    of time, another alarm goes off
    “It all strikes me as unnecessarily complicated,” said Panov curtly, nervously
    “Not necessarily, Mo,” interrupted Conklin gently“Explosives can be concealed pretty easily in
    heating pipes and ductsAnd did you know that during the last days of Hitler’s bunker a few of his
    saner aides tried to insert poison gas into the air-filtering machinery? These gucci mens watch are just precautions
    The elevator stopped and the door opened“To your left, Doctor,” Holland saidThe hallway
    was a glistening pristine white, antiseptic in its way, which was altogether proper, as this
    underground complex was a highly sophisticated medical centerIt was devoted not only to the
    healing of men and women, but also to the process of breaking them down, crippling their
    resistance so that information might be revealed, truths learned that could chanel top prevent the penetration of
    high-risk operations, frequently saving lives as a result
    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
    241
    They entered a room that was in stark contrast to the antiseptic quality of the fluorescent-lit
    hallwayThere were heavy armchairs and soft indirect lighting, a coffee urn on a table with cups
    and saucers; newspapers and magazines were folded neatly on other tables, all the comforts of a
    lounge designed for those waiting for someone or cartier santos watch somethingFrom an inner door a man in a white
    medical jacket appeared; he was frowning, looking uncertain
    “Director Holland?” he said, approaching Peter, extending his handNeedless to say, we didn’t expect you
    “I’m afraid it’s an emergency and hardly one of my choosingMay I introduce you to DrMorris
    Panov—unless you know him?”
    “Of him, of course Walsh again extended his hand“A pleasure, Doctor, also a privilege
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    Sunday, December 26th, 2010
    9:18 am
    @@@@@except I'd sort of promised Ilse, and I
    @@@@@except I'd sort of promised Ilse,
    and I wasn't in the habit of breaking the promises
    I made to my children
    My right arm was still itching, itching almost
    hard enough to hurt, but I barely noticedThere
    were eight or nine canvases lined up against the
    wall to my leftI turned toward them, thinking
    237
    I'd try to decide which ones were best, but I
    never so much as looked at them
    Tom Riley was standing at the head of the stairs
    He was naked except for a pair of light blue
    pajama pants, darker at the crotch and down the
    inside of one leg, where he had wet themHis
    right eye was goneThere was a matted socket full
    of red and black gore where it had beenDried
    blood streaked back along his right temple like
    war paint, disappearing into graying hair above
    his earHis other eye stared out at the Gulf of
    MexicoCarnival sunset swam over his narrow,
    pallid face
    I shrieked in surprise and terror, recoiled, and
    fell off my chairI landed on my bad hip and
    yelled out again, this time from painI jerked
    and my foot struck the chair I'd been sitting in,
    knocking it overWhen I looked toward the stairs
    again, Tom was gone
    vi
    Ten minutes later I was downstairs, dialing his
    home numberI had descended the stairs from
    238
    Little Pink in the sitting position, thumping down
    one riser at a time on my assNot because I'd
    hurt my hip falling off the chair, but because my
    legs were trembling so badly I didn't trust myself
    on my feetI was afraid I might take a header,
    even going down backward so I could clutch the
    banister with my left handHell, I was afraid I
    might faint
    I kept remembering the day at Lake Phalen I'd
    turned to see Tom with that unnatural shine in his
    eyes, Tom trying not to embarrass me by actual
    bawlingBoss, I can't get used to seeing you this
    way
    The telephone began to ring in Tom's nice Apple
    Valley homeTom, who'd been married and divorced
    twice, Tom who had advised me against moving out
    of the house in Mendota Heights - It's like giving
    up home field advantage in a playoff game, he'd
    saidTom who'd gone on to enjoy my home field
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    Saturday, December 25th, 2010
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    Friday, December 24th, 2010
    9:10 am
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    The seaman was a small man with a worried face"I can't get away with thatWhat santos cartier watch if Kerrigan sees me loading it on?"
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    Thursday, December 23rd, 2010
    9:10 am
    @@@@@Her mother and Mammy had drummed them into
    @@@@@Her mother and Mammy had
    drummed
    them into her from the time she could walkScarlett set her jaw
    mutinously and stared at her feet as they walked to Saint Mary'sShe
    just wouldn't listen, that's allHowever, when they were back at the
    aunts' house having breakfast Pauline said something that forced her
    to
    pay attention"You needn't scowl at me, ScarlettI'm only telling
    you for your own good what people are sayingThere's a rumor that
    you
    have two brand new ball gownsIt's a scandal, when everyone else is
    happy to make do with what they've been wearing for years
    You're new in town and you have to be careful of your reputationPeople haven't made up their minds about him yet, you
    know Scarlett's heart gave a sickening lurchRhett would kill her
    if she ruined things for him"What about Rhett? Please tell me, Aunt
    PaulineAll the old stories-he was
    expelled from West Point, his own father had disowned him for his wild
    behavior, he was known to have made money in disreputable ways, as
    a
    professional gambler on Mississippi riverboats, in the brawling gold
    fields of California, and worst of all through consorting with
    scallywags and carpetbaggersTrue, he'd been a brave soldier for the
    Confederacy, a blockade runner and a gunner in Lee's Army, and he'd
    given most of his dirty money to the Confederate causeHa! Scarlett
    thoughtRhett sure is good at spreading stories-but nevertheless,
    his past was definitely unsavoryIt was all well and good that he'd
    come home to take care of his mother and sister, but he'd taken his
    own
    sweet time getting around to itIf his father hadn't starved himself
    to death to pay for a big life insurance, his mother and sister would
    probably have died of neglectScarlett ground her teeth to keep from
    shouting at PaulineIt wasn't true about the insurance! Rhett had
    never, never for a minute, stopped caring about his mother, but
    his father wouldn't let her accept anything from him! It was only when
    MrButler died that Rhett was able to buy Miss Eleanor the house and
    give her moneyButler had to put the story around
    about the insurance to account for her prosperityBecause Rhett's
    money was considered dirtyMoney was money, couldn't these
    stiff-necked Charlestonians see that? What difference did it make
    where it came from if it kept a roof over their heads and food in their
    bellies? Why didn't Pauline stop preaching at her? What on earth was
    she talking about now? The stupid fertilizer busine
    Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010
    9:20 am
    @@@@@“He’s the—” “The chairman of the board,”
    @@@@@“He’s the—”
    “The chairman of the board,” completed Alex, interrupting“The Agency closed in and he got
    out
    “Why the hell didn’t you tell me?” cried Jason angrily
    “Because I never thought for a moment we’d be standing here looking at that picture on the
    screenI still can’t understand it, but I can’t deny it, eitherAlso, I saw no reason to bring up a
    name you might or might not remember, a personally very disturbing occurrence you might or
    might not rememberWhy add an unnecessary complication? There’s enough stress
    “All right, Aleksei!” said an agitated Krupkin, stepping forward“I’ve heard words and names
    that evoke certain unpleasant memories for me, at any rate, and I think it behooves me to ask a
    question or two—specifically oneJust who is this Ogilvie that concerns you so? You’ve told us
    who he was in Saigon, but who is he now?”
    “Why not?” Conklin asked himself quietly“He’s a New York attorney who heads up an
    organization that’s spread throughout Europe and the MediterraneanInitially, by pushing the right
    buttons in Washington, they bought up companies through extortion and leveraged buy-outs;
    they’ve cornered markets and set prices, and in the bargain they’ve moved into the killing game,
    employing some of the best professionals in the businessThere’s hard evidence that they’ve
    contracted for the murder of various officials in the government and the military, the most recent
    example—with which you’re no doubt familiar—is General Teagarten, supreme commander of
    NATO
    “Unbelievable!” whispered Krupkin
    “Jeez-Chrize!” intoned the peasant-colonel, his eyes bulging
    “Oh, they’re very creative, and Ogilvie’s the most inventive of allHe’s Superspider and he’s
    spun a hell of a web from Washington through every capital in EuropeUnfortunately for him, and
    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
    373
    thanks to my associate here, he was caught like a fly in his own spinningHe was about to be
    pounced on by people in Washington he couldn’t possibly corrupt, but he was tipped off and got
    out the day before yesterdayWhy he came to Moscow I haven’t the vaguest idea
    “I may be able to answer that for you,” said Krupkin, glancing at the KGB colonel and nodding,
    as if to say It’s all right“I know nothing—absolutely nothing—about any such killing as you
    speak of, indeed of any killing whatsoeverHowever, you could be describing an American
    enterprise in Europe that’s been servicing our interests for years
    “In what way?” asked Alex
    “With all manner of restricted American technology, as well as armaments, matériel, spare parts
    for aircraft and weapons systems—even the aircraft and the weapons systems them selves on
    various occasions through the bloc count
    Sunday, December 19th, 2010
    9:11 am
    @@@@@I'll paint anything you want, just bring
    @@@@@I'll paint anything you want,
    just bring her to meI was just a one-armed man with a phantom
    itchThe only ghost was his own, drifting around
    just over his head, observing all this
    The creeping in my flesh grew worseI picked the
    broom up, weeping now not just from grief but also
    from the horrible discomfort of that unreachable
    itch, then realized I couldn't do what I needed to
    do - a one-armed man can't snap a broomhandle over
    his kneeI leaned it against the house again and
    stomped it with my good legThere was a snap, and
    the bristle end went flyingI held the jagged end
    up in front of my streaming eyes and nodded
    I went around the corner of the house toward the
    beach, a distant part of my mind registering the
    loud conversation of the shells beneath Big Pink
    912
    as the waves dashed into the darkness there and
    then withdrew
    I had one fleeting thought as I reached the wet
    and shining hardpack, dotted here and there with
    tennis balls: The third thing Elizabeth had said
    to Wireman was You will want to, but you mustn't
    "Too late," I said, and then the string tethering
    the Edgar over my head brokeHe floated away, and
    for a little while I knew no more
    17 - The South End of the Key
    i
    I next remember Wireman coming along and picking
    me upI remember walking a few steps, then
    recalling that Ilse was dead and collapsing to my
    kneesAnd the most shameful thing was that, even
    though I was heartbroken, I was also hungry
    I remember Wireman helping me in through the open
    door and telling me it was all a bad dream, that
    I'd been having the horrors, and when I told him
    no, it was true, Mary Ire had done it, Mary Ire
    had drowned Ilse in Ilse's own bathtub, he had
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    laughed and said that now he knew itFor one
    horrible moment I believed him
    I pointed to the answering machine"Play the
    message," I said, and went into the kitchen
    Staggered into the kitchenWhen Pam started in
    again - Edgar, the police called and they say
    Illy's dead! - I was eating fistfuls of Frosted
    Mini-Wheats straight from the boxI had a queer
    sense of being part of a prepared slideSoon I
    would be placed under a microscope and studiedIn
    the other room, the message endedWireman cursed
    and played it agai
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    Lady Bertram listened without much interest to this sort of invective
    She could not enter into the wrongs of an economist, but she
    felt all the injuries of beauty in MrsGrant’s being so well settled in
    life without being handsome, and expressed her astonishment on
    that point almost as often, though not so diffusely, as MrsNorris
    discussed the other
    These opinions had been hardly canvassed a year before another
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    some place in the thoughts and conversation of the ladiesSir Thomas
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    The necessity of the measure in a pecuniary light, and the hope of
    its utility to his son, reconciled Sir Thomas to the effort of quitting
    the rest of his family, and of leaving his daughters to the direction of
    others at their present most interesting time of lifeHe could not
    think Lady Bertram quite equal to supply his place with them, or
    rather, to perform what should have been her own; but, in Mrs
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    The Miss Bertrams were much to be pitied on the occasion: not
    for their sorrow, but for their want of itTheir father was no object
    of love to them; he had never seemed the friend of their pleasures,
    and his absence was unhappily most welcomeThey were relieved
    by it from all restraint; and without aiming at one gratification that
    would probably have been forbidden by Sir Thomas, they felt themselves
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    He had said to her, moreover, on the very last morning, that he
    hoped she might see William again in the course of the ensuing
    winter, and had charged her to write and invite him to Mansfield as
    soon as the squadron to which he belonged should be known to be
    in England“This was so thoughtful and kind!” and would he only
    have smiled upon her, and called her “my dear Fanny,” while he said
    it, every former frown or cold address might have been forgotten
    But he had ended his speech in a way to sink her in sad mortification,
    by adding, “If William does come to Mansfield, I hope you
    may be able to rolex watches women convince him that the many years which have passed
    since you parted have not been spent on your side entirely without
    improvement; though, I fear, he must find his sister at sixteen in
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    this reflection when her uncle was gone; and her cousins, on seeing
    her with red eyes, set her down as a hypocrite
    29
    Jane Austen
    CHAPTER IV
    TOM BERTRAM had of late spent so little of his time at home that he
    could be only nominally missed; and Lady Bertram was soon astonished
    to find how very well they did even without his father, how
    well Edmund could supply his place in carving, talking to the steward,
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    Friday, December 17th, 2010
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    In the excitement, everyone forgot about recon



    12

    ON THE same afternoon that Major Dalleson was mounting his attack, the platoon continued to climb Mount AnakaIn the awful heat of the middle slopes they bogged downEach time they passed through a draw or hollow the air seemed to be refracted from the blazing rocks, and after a time their cheek muscles ached from continual squintingIt was a minor pain and should have been lost in the muscle cramps of their thighs, the sullen vicious aching of their backs, but it became the greatest torment of the marchThe bright light lanced like splinters into the tender flesh of their eyeballs, danced about the base of their brains in reddened choleric circlesThey lost all account of the distance they had covered; everything beneath them had blurred, and the individual torments of each kind of terrain were forgottenThey no longer cared if the next hundred yards was a barren rock slope or a patch of brush and forestEach had its own painful disadvantagesThey wavered like a file of drunks, plodded along with their heads bent down, their arms slapping spasmodically at their sidesAll their equipment had become leaden, and a variety of sores had farrowed on every bony knob of their bodiesTheir shoulders were blistered from the pack bands, their waists were bruised from the jouncing of their cartridge belts, and their rifles clanked abrasively against their sides, raising blisters on their hipsTheir shirts had long washed lines of white where the perspiration had dried
    They moved numbly, straggling upward from rock to rock, panting and sobbing with exhaustionAgainst his will Croft was forced to give them a break every few minutes; they rested now for as long a period as they marched, lying dumbly on their backs, their arms and legs spread-eagledLike the litter-bearers, they had forgotten everything; they did not think of themselves as individual men any longerThey were merely envelopes of suffe
    Saturday, December 11th, 2010
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    Friday, December 10th, 2010
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    Red tried to ease the weight of his pack by compressing it against the bulkhead of the boatThe constant circling was annoyingAs he looked at the thirty men squeezed in with him, and saw how unnaturally green their uniforms looked against the blue-gray of the troop well, he had to breathe deeply a few times and sit motionlessSweat was breaking out along his hermes bag ba
    Monday, December 6th, 2010
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    his infatuation, and be thankful for the right reason in her which
    281
    Jane Austen
    had saved him from its evil consequences
    While Fanny’s mind was engaged in these sort of hopes, her uncle
    was, soon after tea, called out of the room; an occurrence too common
    to strike her, and she thought nothing of it till the butler reappeared
    ten minutes afterwards, and advancing decidedly towards
    herself, said, “Sir Thomas wishes to speak with you, ma’am, in his
    own room Then it occurred to her what might be going on; a
    suspicion rushed over her mind which drove the colour from her
    cheeks; but instantly rising, she was preparing to obey, when Mrs
    Norris called out, “Stay, stay, Fanny! what are you about? where are
    you going? don’t be in such a hurryDepend upon it, it is not you
    who are wanted; depend upon it, it is me” (looking at the butler);
    “but you are so very eager to put yourself forwardWhat should Sir
    Thomas want you for? It is me, Baddeley, you mean; I am coming
    this momentYou mean me, Baddeley, I am sure; Sir Thomas wants
    me, not Miss Price
    But Baddeley was stout“No, ma’am, it is Miss Price; I am certain
    of its being Miss Price And there was a half-smile with the words,
    which meant, “I do not think you would answer the purpose at allNorris, much discontented, was obliged to compose herself
    to work again; and Fanny, walking off in agitating consciousness,
    found herself, as she anticipated, in another minute alone with Mr
    282
    Mansfield Park
    CHAPTER XXXIII
    THE CONFERENCE was neither so short nor so conclusive as the lady
    had designedThe gentleman was not so easily satisfiedHe had all
    the disposition to persevere that Sir Thomas could wish himHe had
    vanity, which strongly inclined him in the first place to think she did
    love him, though she might not know it herself; and which, secondly,
    when constrained at last to admit that she did know her own present
    feelings, convinced him that he should be able in time to make those
    feelings what he wished
    He was in love, very much in love; and it was a love which, operating
    on an active, sanguine spirit, of more warmth than delicacy,
    made her affection appear of greater consequence because it was
    withheld, and determined him to have the glory, as well as the felicity,
    of forcing her to love him
    He would not despair: he would not desistHe had every wellgrounded
    reason for solid attachment; he knew her to have all the
    worth that could justify the warmest hopes of lasting happiness with
    her; her conduct at this very time, by speaking the disinterestedness
    and delicacy of her character (qualities which he believed most rare
    indeed), was of a sort to heighten all his wishes, and confirm all his
    resolutionsHe knew not that he had a pre-engaged heart to attack
    Of that he had no suspicionHe considered her rather as one who
    had never thought on the subject enough to be in danger; who had
    been guarded by youth, a youth of mind as lovely as of person;
    whose modesty had prevented her from understanding his attentions,
    and who was still overpowered by the suddenness of addresses
    so wholly unexpected, and the novelty of a situation which her fancy
    had never taken into account
    Must it not follow of course, that, when he was understood, he
    should succeed? He believed it fullyLove such as his, in a man like
    283
    Jane Austen
    himself, must with perseverance secure a return, and at no great
    distance; and he had so much delight in the idea of obliging her to
    love him in a very short time, that her not loving him now was
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    39
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