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    Monday, January 3rd, 2011
    10:15 am
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    "Wireman, you are one cynical mongrel
    479
    He took this for the compliment it sort of wasHe
    nodded and waved it aside magnanimously"I'll
    serve as your lawyerYou're going to pick rolex ladies watch the
    paintings; Nannuzzi consultsNannuzzi sets the
    show arrangement; you consultSound about right?"
    "I guess so, yeahIf that's how it's done
    "It's how this is going to be doneAnd, Edgar -
    last but very far from least - you're going to
    call classic chanel bag everyone you care for and invite them to your
    show
    "But-"
    "Yes," he said, noddingYour shrink,
    your ex, both daughters, this guy Tom Riley, the
    woman who rehabbed you-"
    "Kathi Green," I said, bemused"Wireman, Tom
    won't Chloe Purse comeAnd
    Lin's in FranceWith strep, for God's sake
    Wireman took no notice"You mentioned a lawyer-"
    "William Bozeman the ThirdOh, your mom and dad, of courseYour
    sisters and brothers
    "My parents are dead and I was an only childBut don't
    call him tiffany 925 that, Wireman
    480
    "Call another lawyer Bozie? Do you think I'm
    stupid?" He considered"I shot myself in the head
    and didn't manage to kill myself, so you better
    not answer that
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    thinking
    Sunday, January 2nd, 2011
    10:16 am
    @@@@@“She says it's not exactly right, but it's
    @@@@@“She says it's not exactly right, but it's close
    “Mandy,” I repeatedNot that I would need to remember“Where is she?”
    “With Trudy–that was a good call thereTrudy's exactly the right personI think she's gotten
    her to sleep Doc smiled, but it didn't affect his gloomy expression much“I've got lots of
    questions for her
    I looked at the small woman–it was still impossible to believe that she was older than the body
    I woreHer face was slack and vacantIt frightened me a little–she'd been so vibrantly alive
    when Sunny was insideWould Mel… ?
    I'm still herehe winced, and so did I
    I touched Jodi's arm softlyShe was much like Lacey in some waysOlive skinned and black
    haired and tinyThey could almost be sisters, except that Jodi's sweet, wan face could never
    look so repellent
    Kyle was tongue-tied, holding her hand
    “Like this, Kyle,” I saidI brushed her arm again“Jodi? Jodi, can you hear me? Kyle's waiting
    for you, JodiHe got himself in a lot of trouble getting you here–everybody who knows him
    wants to beat him senseless I grinned wryly at the big man, and his lips curled up at the
    corners, though he didn't look up to see my smile
    “Not that you're surprised to hear that,” Ian said beside me“When hasn't that been the case,
    eh, Jodi? It's good to see you again, sweethe
    Saturday, January 1st, 2011
    10:23 am
    @@@@@But the patrol to come draped them in a
    @@@@@But the patrol to come draped them in a shroud of gloomEach retreated into silence and his private fearsLike an augury, the night was coming closer
    Far in the distance they could see Mount Anaka rising above the islandIt 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 Americ
    Friday, December 31st, 2010
    10:24 am
    @@@@@She'd had no idea how heavy and
    @@@@@She'd had no idea how
    heavy and constricting boots wereOh! The hand at her waist was
    strangefeelingShe could sense the sawing motion of the knifeThen
    suddenly a tremendous weight slid down her legs and her shoulders
    bobbed up out of the waterShe cried out in surpriseThe sound of
    her cry reverberated in the hollow space beneath the wooden hullIt
    was so loud that she almost lost her handhold from the shock of it
    Then Rhett burst through the waterHe was very close to her"How
    do
    you feel?" he askedIt sounded as if he was shouting"Shhh," said
    Scarlett
    "How do you feel?" he asked quietly"Frozen nearly to death, if you
    really want to know
    "The water's cold, but not that coldIf we were in the North
    Atlantic-"
    "Rhett Butler, if you tell me one of your blockade-running
    adventure stories, I'll-I'll drown you!" His laughter filled the air
    around them and it seemed somehow to make it warmerBut Scarlett
    was
    still furious"How you can laugh at a time like this is beyond me
    It's not funny to be dangling in freezing water in the middle of a
    terrible storm
    "When things are at their worst, Scarlett, the only thing to do is find
    something to laugh aboutand it stops your
    teeth chattering from fear 310 She was too exasperated to speak
    The worst of it was that he was rightThe chattering had stopped
    when
    she stopped thinking that she was going to die"Now I'm going to cut
    the laces on your corset, Scarl
    Thursday, December 30th, 2010
    10:15 am
    @@@@@However, you could be describing an
    @@@@@However, 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 countriesI tell you this knowing that you know I’d vehemently
    deny ever having said it
    “Understood,” nodded Conklin“What’s the name of this enterprise?”
    “There’s no single nameInstead, there are fifty or sixty companies apparently under one
    umbrella but with so many different titles and origins it’s impossible to determine the specific
    relationships
    “There’s a name and Ogilvie runs it,” said Alex
    “That crossed my mind,” said Krupkin, his eyes suddenly glass-cold, his expression that of an
    unrelenting zealot“However, what appears to disturb you so about your American attorney, I can
    assure you is far, far outweighed by our own concerns Dimitri turned to the television set and the
    shakily stationary picture, his eyes now filled with anger“The Soviet intelligence officer on that
    screen is General Rodchenko, second in command of the KGB and close adviser to the premier of
    the Soviet UnionMany things may be done in the name of Russian interests and without the
    premier’s knowledge, but in this day and age not in the areas you describeMy God, the supreme
    commander of NATO! And never—never—using the services of Carlos the Jackal! These
    embarrassments are no less than dangerous and frightening catastrophes
    “Have you got any suggestions?” asked Conklin
    “A foolish question,” answered the colonel gruffly“Arrest, then the Lubyanka
    “There’s a problem with that solution,” said Alex“The Central Intelligence Agency knows
    Ogilvie’s in Moscow
    “So where is the problem? We rid us both of an unhealthy person and his crimes and go about
    our business
    “It may seem strange to you, but the problem isn’t only with the unhealthy person and his
    crimes, even where the Soviet Union is concernedIt’s with the cover-up—where Washington’s
    concerned
    The Komitet officer looked at Krupkin and spoke in Russian“What is this one talking about?”
    “It’s difficult for us to understand,” answered Dimitri in his native language, “still, for them it is
    a problemLet me try to expla
    Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
    10:15 am
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    I remember clearly how the whole world seemed to
    be waiting for me to begin - that was how much
    power I felt running through me while the guitars
    screamed and the shells murmured
    I came here to dig for treasure
    I painted until the sun was gone and the moon cast
    its bitter rind of white light over the water and
    after that was gone, too
    If you want to play you gotta pay
    xi
    580
    The sight of Dario in a suit and a tie, with his
    lush hair tamed and combed straight back from his
    forehead, scared prada clutch me even more than the murmuring
    audience that filled Geldbart Auditorium, where
    the lights had just been turned down to half
    except for the spotlight shining down on the
    lectern standing at center stage, that wasThe
    fact that Dario himself was nervous - going to the
    podium he had nearly dropped his note-cards -
    scared me even worse
    "Good evening, my name is Dario Nannuzzi," he said
    "I am cocurator, and chief buyer at the Scoto
    Gallery on Palm AvenueMore importantly, I have
    been a part of the Sarasota art community for
    thirty omega seamaster gmt years, and I hope you will excuse my brief
    descent into what some might call Bobbittry when I
    say there is no finer art community in America
    This brought enthusiastic applause from an
    audience which - as Wireman said later - might
    know the difference between Monet and Manet, but
    apparently didn't have a clue that there was a
    difference between George Babbitt and John Bobbitt
    Standing in the wings, suffering through that
    581
    purgatory only frightened main speakers experience
    as their introducers wind their slow and
    peristaltic Cartier Tortue courses, I hardly noticed
    Dario shifted his top file-card to the bottom,
    once again nearly dropped the whole stack,
    recovered, and looked out at his audience again
    "I hardly know where to begin, but to my relief I
    need say very little, for true talent seems to
    blaze up from nowhere, and serves as its own
    introduction
    That said, he proceeded to introduce me for the
    next ten minutes as I stood in the wings with my
    one lousy page of notes clutched in my remaining
    handNames went past like floats in a paradeA
    few, like Edward Hopper gucci ladies watches and Salvador Dalí, I knew
    Others, like Yves Tanguy and Kay Sage, I didn't
    Each unknown name made me feel more of an impostor
    The fear I felt was no longer mental; it clamped a
    deep and stinking hold in my bowelsI felt like I
    needed to pass gas, but I was afraid I might load
    my pants insteadAnd that wasn't the worstEvery
    word I had prepared had gone out of my mind except
    for the very first line, which was hideously
    appropriate: My name is Edgar Freemantle, and I
    582
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    Monday, December 27th, 2010
    10:18 am
    @@@@@ For the next several weeks, Mike and I ran
    @@@@@
    For the next several weeks, Mike and I ran around our neighborhood, knocking on doors and asking our neighbors if they would save their toothpaste tubes for usWith puzzled looks, most adults consented with a smileSome asked us what we were doingTo which we replied, "We can't tell youIt's a business secret
    My mom grew distressed as the weeks wore onWe had selected a
    site next to her washing machine as the place we would stockpile our raw materialsIn a brown cardboard box that one time held catsup bottles, our little pile of used toothpaste tubes began to grow
    Finally my mom put her foot downThe sight of her neighbors' , messy, crumpled used toothpaste tubes had gotten to her"What are you boys doing?" she asked"And I don't want to hear again that it's a business secretDo something with this mess or I'm going to throw it out
    Mike and I pleaded and begged, explaining that we would soon have enough and then we would begin productionWe informed her that we were waiting on a couple of neighbors to finish using up their toothpaste so we could have their tubesMom granted us a one-week extension
    The date to begin production was moved upMy first partnership was already being threatened with an eviction notice from our warehouse space by my own momIt became Mike's job to tell the neighbors to quickly use up their toothpaste, saying their dentist wanted them to brush more often anywayI began to put together the production line
    One day my dad drove up with a friend to see two 9-year-old boys in the driveway with a production line operating at full speedThere was fine white powder everywhereOn a long table were small milk cartons from school, and our family's hibachi grill was glowing with red hot coals at maximum heat
    Dad walked up cautiously, having to park the car at the base of the driveway, since the production line blocked the carpor
    Sunday, December 26th, 2010
    10:26 am
    @@@@@Croft waved his arm to the rest of the
    @@@@@Croft waved his arm to the rest of the platoon to follow, and started down the hill
    They moved very slowly, keeping close to the tall grassMartinez would advance only thirty yards at a time, and then halt, before moving forward againSomething of his caution was transferred to the menWithout anything being said, they all were waryThey roused themselves from their fatigue, alerted their dulled senses, even restored to some extent a necessary delicate control of their limbsThey were careful where they placed their feet, and they lifted their legs at each step, and set them down firmly, trying to make no noiseThey were all acutely conscious of the silence in the valley, and started at unexpected rustles, halted every time an insect began its chirpingTheir tension increasedThey expected something to happen, and their mouths became dry, their heartbeats pounded high in their chests
    It was only a few hundred yards from the place where Croft had studied the valley to the approaches of the pass, but the route Martinez took was more than half a mileIt took them a long time to circle around, perhaps half an hour, and their alertness diminishedThe men in the rear of the column had to wait minutes at a time, and then jog forward on the half-run to keep up with the rest of the platoonIt was trying, it was exhausting, and it grated on themTheir fatigue became alive again, and throbbed in their backs, in the exhausted hamstrings of their thighsThey would stand in a partial crouch, waiting for the signal to move ahead, their packs resting cruelly on their shouldersThe sweat would run into their eyes, and their eyes would tearThey lost the fine edge of their tension, became surlyA few of them began to grumble, and in one of the longer halts Wilson stopped to relieve himselfThey began to move while he was still occupied and the column was confusedThe men in the rear whispered up the file to halt the leaders, and for a minute or so men were moving back and forth and whispering to each otherWhen Wilson was ready, they advanced again, but discipline was brokenAlthough none of the men talked aloud, the sum of their whispers, their decreased caution in walking, added up to a detectable murmur of soundOccasionally Croft would give a hand signal to be silent, but it did not have enough effect
    They reached the cliffs at the base of Mount Anaka, and bore to the left again, darting toward the pass from rock to ro
    Saturday, December 25th, 2010
    10:26 am
    @@@@@But this one was very differentSolange
    @@@@@But this
    one was very differentSolange Robillard's dark hair was not piled
    high on her head as in Tara's portraitIt fell, instead, like a warm
    cloud over her shoulders and down her bare arms to the elbow, bound
    only by a fillet of gleaming pearlsHer arrogant thin nose was the
    same, but her lips held a beginning smile instead of a sneer, and her
    tip-tilted dark eyes looked from their corners at Scarlett with the
    laughing, magnetic intimacy that had challenged and lured everyone
    who'd ever known herShe was younger in this painting, but
    nevertheless a woman, not a girlThe provocative round breasts
    half-exposed at Tara were covered by the thin white silk gown she
    wore
    Covered yet visible through the gauzy silk, a glimmer of white flesh
    and rosy nipplesScarlett felt herself blushingWhy, Grandma
    Robillard doesn't look like a lady at all, she thought, automatically
    disapproving as she'd been taught she shouldInvoluntarily she
    remembered herself in Rhett's arms and the wild hunger for his hands
    on
    herHer grandmother must have felt the same hunger, the same
    ecstasy,
    it was in her eyes and her smileSo it can't be wrong, what I felt
    Or was it? Was it some taint of shamelessness in her blood, handed
    down from the woman who smiled at her from the painting? Scarlett
    stared at the woman above her on the wall, fascinated
    Pauline whispered in her ear"Pere wants us to leave nowSay
    good night quietly, and come with me Supper was a skimpy meal
    Hardly enough, in Scarlett's opinion, for one of the bright-plumaged
    fantasy birds painted on the plates that held it"That's because the
    cook's preparing Pere's birthday feast," Eulalie explained in a
    whisper"Four days ahead of time?" Scarlett said loudly"What's
    she doing, watching the chicken grow up?" Good heavens, she
    grumbled
    to herself, she'd be as skinny as Grandfather Robillard by Thursday if
    it was going to be like thisAfter the house was asleep she made her
    way silently down to the basement kitchen and ate her fill of the
    cornbread and buttermilk in the larderLet the servants go hungry for
    a change, she thought, pleased that her suspicions had proven
    accurate
    Pierre Robillard might keep the loyalty of his daughters when their
    stomachs were only half-filled, but his servants wouldn't stay unless
    they had plenty to eatThe next morning she ordered Jerome to bring
    her eggs and bacon and biscu
    Friday, December 24th, 2010
    10:15 am
    @@@@@He had to be with her when she found
    @@@@@He had to be with her when she found outCooper, will you please? I think she’s in the
    kitchen
    “Why, Uncle John?”
    “I want to talk to your mother for a few minutes
    “Johnny, please,” objected Marie?”
    The child left, and as children often do, he obviously sensed something serious that was beyond
    his understanding; he stared at his uncle before heading to the doorMarie got to her feet and
    looked hard at her brother, at the tears that began to roll down his cheeksThe terrible message was
    conveyed!” she whispered, her pallid face growing paler“Dear God, no, she cried, her
    hands and then her shoulders starting to trembleI wanted you to hear it from me, not over a radio or a TV setI want to be with
    you
    “You’re wrong, wrong!” screamed Marie, rushing toward him, grabbing his shirt and clenching
    the fabric in her fistsHe promised me he was protected!”
    “This just came from Langley,” said the younger brother, holding up the page of computer
    printout“Holland called me a few minutes ago and said it was on its way overHe knew you had
    to see itIt was picked up from Radio Moscow during the night and will be on all the broadcasts
    and in the morning papers
    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
    408
    “Give it to me!” she shouted defiantlyHe did so and gently held her shoulders, prepared to take
    her in his arms and give what comfort he couldShe read the copy rapidly, then shook off his
    hands, frowning, and walked back to the couch and sat downHer concentration was absolute; she
    placed the paper on the coffee table and studied it as though it were an archaeological find, a scroll
    perhapsI don’t know what to say—you know how I felt about him
    “Yes, I know, JohnnyJacques’s astonishment, his sister looked up at him, a thin,
    wan smile appearing on her lips“But it’s a little early for our tears, Bro
    Jason Bourne’s alive and up to his tricks and that means David’s alive,
    Thursday, December 23rd, 2010
    10:16 am
    @@@@@ "You're up early," I said, but this
    @@@@@
    "You're up early," I said, but this didn't
    surprise meIlly had always been our restless one
    "I was worried about you
    Wireman called Jack to say that nice old woman
    diedIt was Jack who told usWe were still at
    dinner She put her head on my shoulder
    "And on your special night, too
    I put my arm around her
    "Anyway, I only slept a couple of hours, and then
    got up because it was lightAnd when I looked out,
    who should I see sitting beside the pool but my
    father, all by himself?"
    "Couldn't sleep anymoreI just hope I didn't wake
    your m-" I stopped, aware of Ilse's large, round
    763
    eyes"Don't go getting any ideas, Miss CookieIt
    was strictly comfort
    It had not been strictly comfort, but what it had
    been was something I wasn't prepared to explore
    with my daughterOr myself, for that matter
    She slumped a little, then straightened and looked
    at me, head tilted, the beginnings of a smile at
    the corners of her mouth
    "If you have hopes, that's your business," I said
    "But I would advise you not to get them upI'm
    always going to care for her, but sometimes people
    go too far to turn backI'm pretty
    sure that's the case with us
    She looked back at the still surface of the pool,
    the little smile at the corners of her mouth dying
    awayI hated seeing it go, but maybe it was for
    the best
    That left me free to move on to other mattersI
    didn't want to, but I was still her father and she
    was in many ways still a child
    Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010
    10:26 am
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    “There can be no objection, then, to Fanny’s going with you; there
    can be no doubt of your having room for her
    “Fanny!” repeated MrsNorris; “my dear Edmund, there is no
    idea of her going with usShe stays with her aunt
    “You can have no reason, I imagine, madam,” said he, addressing
    his mother, “for wishing Fanny not to be of the party, but as it relates
    to yourself, to your own comfortIf you could do without her,
    you would not wish to keep her at home?”
    69
    Jane Austen
    “To be sure chloe dior not, but I cannot do without her
    “You can, if I stay at home with you, as I mean to do
    There was a general cry out at this“Yes,” he continued, “there is
    no necessity for my going, and I mean to stay at homeFanny has a
    great desire to see SothertonI know she wishes it very muchShe
    has not often a gratification of the kind, and I am sure, ma’am, you
    would be glad to give her the pleasure now?”
    “Oh yes! very glad, if your aunt sees no objectionNorris was very ready with the only objection which could
    remain—their having positively assured pearl chanel MrsRushworth that Fanny
    could not go, and the very strange appearance there would consequently
    be in taking her, which seemed to her a difficulty quite
    impossible to be got overIt must have the strangest appearance! It
    would be something so very unceremonious, so bordering on disrespect
    for MrsRushworth, whose own manners were such a pattern
    of good-breeding and attention, that she really did not feel equal to
    itNorris had no affection for Fanny, and no wish of procuring
    her pleasure at any time; but her opposition to Edmund now,
    arose more from rolex ladies watches partiality for her own scheme, because it was her
    own, than from anything elseShe felt that she had arranged everything
    extremely well, and that any alteration must be for the worse
    When Edmund, therefore, told her in reply, as he did when she
    would give him the hearing, that she need not distress herself on
    MrsRushworth’s account, because he had taken the opportunity,
    as he walked with her through the hall, of mentioning Miss Price as
    one who would probably be of the party, and had directly received a
    very sufficient invitation for his cousin, chanel white j12 watch MrsNorris was too much
    vexed to submit with a very good grace, and would only say, “Very
    well, very well, just as you chuse, settle it your own way, I am sure I
    do not care about it
    “It seems very odd,” said Maria, “that you should be staying at
    home instead of Fanny
    “I am sure she ought to be very much obliged to you,” added
    Julia, hastily leaving the room as she spoke, from a consciousness
    that she ought to offer to stay at home herself
    “Fanny will feel quite as grateful as the occasion requires,” was
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    Sunday, December 19th, 2010
    10:22 am
    @@@@@ “And I guess we’re both right,” said Jax,
    @@@@@
    “And I guess we’re both right,” said Jax, shaking hands with the stranger“The mitt you’re
    wearing is pretty familiar to me
    “Our mutual friend didn’t tell me you were black
    “Is that a problem for you?”
    “Good Christ, noI like our friend even moreIt probably never occurred to him to say
    anything
    “I think we’ll get along
    Bourne stood ten feet to the right of the desk as Jax swiftly, expertly tended to the corpse,
    mercifully wrapping the head in gauzeWithout explaining, he had cut away sections of the
    general’s clothing, examining those parts of the body beneath the fabricFinally, he carefully rolled
    the hooded body off the chair and onto the floor“Are you finished in here?” he asked, looking
    over at Jason
    “I’ve swept it clean, Doctor, if that’s what you meanI want this room sealedNo one’s to enter it after we leave until our mutual
    friend gives the word
    “I certainly can’t guarantee that,” said Bourne
    “Why?”
    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
    109
    “Your general didn’t commit suicide, no-name
    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
    110
    12
    “The woman,” said Alex Conklin over the line“From everything you told me it had to be
    Swayne’s wifeJesus!”
    “It doesn’t change anything, but it looks that way,” agreed Bourne halfheartedly“She had
    reason enough to do it, God knows—still, if she did, she didn’t tell Flannagan, and that doesn’t
    make senseConklin paused, then spoke quickly
    “Ivan? Your doctor? His name is Ivan?”
    “So?”
    “Nothing‘packing the merchandise’ was the way he put it
    “In his wagon?”
    “That’s rightWe carried the body—”
    “What makes him so sure it wasn’t suicide?” broke in A
    Saturday, December 18th, 2010
    10:19 am
    @@@@@* The year's final house party was not
    @@@@@* The year's final house party was not far
    from
    Kilbride, which was not far from TrimScarlett could drive herself
    instead of all the complications of taking the trainShe left very
    early in the morning when it was still coolHer horses were suffering
    from the heat, despite being sponged down four times a dayEven
    she
    had started to feel it; she felt twitchy and sweaty almost all night
    when she was trying to sleepThank heaven it was AugustThe
    summer
    was almost done, if it would only admit itThe sky was still tinged
    with pink, but there was already a haze of heat in the distance
    Scarlett hoped she'd calculated the time right for the tripShe'd
    like to have her horse and herself in the shade when the sun was full
    upI wonder if Nan Sutcliffe will be up? She never looked like an
    early riser to meI wouldn't mind having a cool bath and
    changing my clothes before I see anybodyI do hope there's a decent
    maid for me here, not like that ham-handed idiot at the Giffords'She
    practically tore the sleeves off my frocks hanging them up
    Fitz is right, she usually is
    But I don't want a personal maid hanging around me every minute of
    my
    lifePeggy Quinn does all I need at home, and if people want me to
    come visit they'll just have to put up with me not bringing my maidI
    really should give a house party myself, to pay back all the
    hospitality I oweEveryone has been so kind I can say this year was just too hot, plus I was
    worried about the farms Two men stepped from shadows on each
    side
    of the roadcaught the horse's bridle; the other was pointing a
    rifleScarlett mind raced, her heart did tooWhy hadn't she thought
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    Friday, December 17th, 2010
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    Ian noticed for the first time what I carried“No dishes now,” he told me“Let's give them a
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    Saturday, December 11th, 2010
    10:51 am
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    At that moment the driver stalled the jeep in a rutCummings turned toward himHe could have shot him, but instead he murmured, "Come on, son, we have no time for that The jeep motor started again, and they continued on
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    "You better turn on your lights, son," he said to the driver"This is going to take too long otherwise If any snipers were near it would be like walking through a forest of thugs, carrying a candleThe General tensed pleasurably in his seatDanger had a tang which made him appreciate the magnitude of his work"You'd better cover the road on either side," he said to Hearn and DallesonThey pointed their carbines out the open sides of the jeep, scanning the jungleWith the lights on, the foliage was silvery, more mysterious
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    Friday, December 10th, 2010
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    Tuesday, December 7th, 2010
    10:23 am
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    The young man got up from the chair and walked over to the couch
    Marie sat in the back of the plane drinking coffee from a plastic cup, trying desperately to recall
    every place—every hiding and resting place—she and David had used thirteen years agoThere
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    it?—ten miles outside of Paris, and an inn with a balcony in Argenteuil where David—Jason—first
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    there was the Sacré-Coeur, far up on the steps where Jason—David—met the man in a dark alley
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    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
    208
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    the way it was thirteen years ago, a time she was reenteringShe would then take a domestic flight
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    Monday, December 6th, 2010
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    window
    "Even though I am a pain, right?" She laughed
    Rarely had the sound of laughter so relieved me
    Whatever she'd found on the easel, it hadn't made
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    her mad, and my stomach dropped back where it
    belongedIf she wasn't angry, the risk that I
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    She stepped to the left, and I saw what I'd drawn
    while in my dazed, pre-nap stateTechnically, it
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    first tentative pen-and-inks on Lake Phalen, but I
    thought it was no wonder she was puzzled
    It was the section of beach I could see through
    Little Pink's nearly wall-length windowThe
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    marked the time as early morningA little girl in
    a tennis dress stood at the center of the picture
    Her back was turned, but her red hair was a dead
    giveaway: she was Reba, my little love, that
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    poorly executed, but you somehow knew that was on
    purpose, that she wasn't a real little girl at all,
    only a dream figure in a dream landscape
    All around her feet, lying in the sand, were
    bright green tennis balls
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    Others floated shoreward on the mild waves
    "When did you do it?" Ilse was still smiling -
    almost laughing"And what the heck does it mean?"
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    itThe tennis balls were the wrong color because
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    wasn't why; I hated it because it felt all wrong
    It felt like heartbreak
    "I love it!" she said, and then did laugh"C'mon,
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    "While you were sleepingI went to lie down, but
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    Saturday, December 4th, 2010
    10:15 am
    @@@@@ They were both surprisingly goodI could see
    @@@@@
    They were both surprisingly goodI could see their silhouettes in the light from the goalpost
    lamps, moving as lithely as if they were decades youngerJeb was not afraid to hit the floor to
    stop a goal, but Maggie was more effective without resorting to such extremesShe was like a
    magnet for the invisible ballEvery time Ian or Wes got off a shot…thunk! It landed in her
    hands
    Trudy and Paige quit after a half hour or so and passed me on their way out, chattering with
    excitementIt seemed impossible that we'd started the morning with a trial, but I was relieved
    that things had changed so drastically
    The women weren't gone longThey came back with arms full of boxesGranola bars–the kind
    with fruit fillingThe game came to a haltJeb called halftime, and everyone hurried over to eat
    breakfast
    The goods were divvied up at the center lineIt was a mob scene at first
    “Here you go, Wanda,” Jamie said, ducking out of the groupHe had his hands full of the bars,
    and water bottles tucked under his armsHaving fun?”
    “Yeah! Wish you could play
    “Next time,” I said
    “Here you go…” Ian was there, his hands full of granola bars
    “Beat ya,” Jamie told him
    “Oh,” Jared said, appearing on Jamie's other sideHe also had too many bars for one
    Ian and Jared exchanged a long glance
    “Where's all the food?” Kyle demandedHe stood over an empty box, his head swiveling
    around the room, looking for the culp
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