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| Monday, January 3rd, 2011 | | 5:34 am |
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business Scarlett's @@@@@My life is my own business Scarlett's vehemence startled Mrs"Is it like that, then?" she said, and her tone wasn't stern at all"Are you in love with him?" "No, I'm notAnd I'm not going to beSo leave me alone, and tell all of them to leave me alone, too Rosaleen Fitzpatrick kept her thoughts to herself after thatBut her instincts as a woman saw trouble in the feverish brightness of Scarlett's eyesAm I in love with Luke? MrsFitzpatrick's question forced Scarlett to question herselfNo, she answered at onceThen why am I out of sorts all day on the mornings he doesn't show up? She could find no convincing answerShe thought about what she'd learned from the letters of friends responding to her mention of himThe Earl of Fenton was notorious, they all saidNe possessed one of the greatest fortunes in Britain, owned properties in England and Scotland as well as his estate in Irelandhe was an intimate of the Prince of Wales, maintained a huge town house in London where rumored bacchanals alternated with famously elaborate entertainments to which all Society schemed for invitationshe had been the favored target of matchmaking parents for over twenty years, ever since he had inherited his title and wealth at the age of eighteen, but he had escaped capture by anyone, even several noted beauties with fortunes of their ownThere were whispered stories about broken hearts, shattered reputations, even suicides And more than one husband had met him on the duelling fieldhe was immoral, cruel, dangerous, some said evilTherefore, of course, the most mysterious and fascinating man in the worldScarlett imagined the sensation it would cause if an Irish-American widow in her thirties succeeded where all the titled beauties had failed, and her lips curved in a small, secret smile faded at onceFenton showed none of the signs of a man desperately in love, he intended to possess her, not marry herI'm not about to let him add my name the long list of hisconquestsBut she couldn't help wondering what it would be like to kissed by | | Sunday, January 2nd, 2011 | | 5:34 am |
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“I'm @@@@@The sun had already set on the desert “I'm hungry,” I told him, and I pulled away from our hug “I knew you would beI saved you something goodIan says you're too self-sacrificing for your own good “I think he's got a point,” Jamie muttered“Even if we all want you here, you don't belong until you decide you do “I can't ever belongAnd nobody really wants me here, Jamie I didn't fight with him, but he was wrongNot lying, because he believed what he was saying But what he really wanted was MelanieHe didn't separate us the way he should Trudy and Heidi were baking rolls in the kitchen and sharing a bright green, juicy appleThey took turns taking bites “It's good to see you, Wanda,” Trudy said sincerely, covering her mouth while she spoke because she was still chewing her last biteHeidi nodded in greeting, her teeth sunk in the appleJamie nudged me, trying to be inconspicuous about it–pointing out that people wanted meHe wasn't making allowances for common courtesy “Did you save her dinner?” he asked eagerlyShe bent down beside the oven and came back with a metal tray in her handIt's probably nasty and tough now, but it's better than the usual On the tray was a rather large piece of red meatMy mouth started to water, even as I rejected the portion I'd been allotted “We have to eat all the perishables the first day,” Jamie encouraged m | | Saturday, January 1st, 2011 | | 5:34 am |
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@@@@@ She began to weep loudlyWill took her @@@@@ She began to weep loudlyWill took her in his arms, patting her back, letting his wife wail against his chest Scarlett ran to Rhett and held her arms up to embrace him"I've missed you so," she saidRhett circled her wrists with his hands and lowered her arms to her sides"Don't, Scarlett," he saidScarlett was incapable of such restraint"What do you mean?" she cried loudly "Don't force me to say it again, ScarlettYou know full well what I meanYou can't be leaving me, not reallyNot when I love you and need you so awfullyOh, Rhett, don't just look at me that wayWhy don't you put your arms around me and comfort me? You promised Mammy Rhett shook his head, a faint smile on his lips"You are such a child, ScarlettYou've known me all these years, and yet, when you want to, you can forget all you've learnedI lied to make a dear old woman's last moments happy Remember, my pet, I'm a scoundrel, not a gentleman He walked toward the door"Don't go, Rhett, please," Scarlett sobbedThen she put both hands over her mouth to stop herselfShe'd never be able to respect herself if she begged him againShe turned her head sharply, unable to bear the sight of him leavingShe saw the triumph in Suellen's eyes and the pity in Will' | | Thursday, December 30th, 2010 | | 5:34 am |
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@@@@@Tarleton said, smiling"I
tried to break @@@@@Tarleton said, smiling"I tried to break their legs when they set the ice house on fire, but they ran too fast for me to catch them That was the time they came over to Lovejoy and hid in our barn," said Sally"The cows went dry for a week when the twins tried to get themselves a pail of milk to drink Everyone had a story about the Tarleton twins, and those stories led to others about their friends and older brothers-Lafe Munroe, Cade and Raiford Calvert, Tom and Boyd Tarleton, Joe Fontaine-all the boys who'd never come homeThe stories were the shared wealth of memory and of love, and as they were told the shadows in the corners of the room became populated with the smiling, shining youth of those who were dead but now-at last-no longer lost because they could be remembered with fond laughter instead of desperate bitternessThe older generation wasn't forgotten, eitherAll those around the table had rich memories of Old Miss Fontaine, Alex and Tony's sharp-tongued, soft-hearted grandmotherAnd of their mother, called Young Miss until the day she died on her sixtieth birthdayScarlett discovered that she could even share the affectionate chuckling about her father's tell-tale habit of singing Irish songs of rebellion when he had, as he put it, "taken a drop or two," and even hear her mother's kindness spoken of without the heartbreak that had always before been her immediate response to the mention of Ellen O'Hara's name Hour after hour, long after plates were empty and the fire only embers on the hearth, still the talk went on, and the dozen survivors brought back to life all those loved ones who could not be there to welcome Tony homeIt was a happy time, a healing time The dim, flickering light of the oil lamp in the center of the table showed none of the scars of Sherman's men in the smoke-stained room and its mended furnitureThe 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 sleepin | | Friday, December 24th, 2010 | | 5:34 am |
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It's not a question of that, although I @@@@@ It's not a question of that, although I think you oughter to keep you from getting spoiledI tell you what, I'll just talk it over with Mother The victory is his and he grinsFar back in his head, quite beneath the surface of his sincerity in this conversation, is the memory of many others(The youths talking in the locker room after gym period, the profound discussions in the cellars converted to club-rooms) Folklore: If you want to make a girl, you got to have a car His senior year is funHe is a member of SG (Student Government) and he manages the School DanceThere are all the dates on Saturday night at the Crown Theatre and once or twice in the road-house out of townThere are the parties on Friday night at the girls' housesHe even goes steady for a part of the year And always the cheer leadingHe squats, does knee-bends in the white flannel pants, the rough white sweater not quite warm enough in the fall windsBefore him the one thousand kids are yelling, the girls in their green plaid skirts jumping up and down, their knees red from the cold Let's give a Cardley for the team, he shouts, running up and down with the megaphoneThere is the pause, the respectful hush while he extends one arm, swings it over his head, and brings it down HIIIIIIIIIII SCORE HIIIIIIII SCHOOOOOL YAAAAAAAAY TEAM! And the kids are yelling, watching him as he does a cartwheel, comes up clapping his hands, his body turned toward the playing field in an attitude of devotion, of pleadingOne thousand kids awaiting on him One of the glory moments that you pull out later In the lag between basketball season and baseball, he takes his car apart, installs a muffler (he is tired of the sound of the exhaust) greases the gear housing, and paints the chassis a pale green There are important conversations with his father We have to be thinking seriously of what you want to do, Willie I've kinda set my mind on engineering, PopThey've talked of it many times, but this occasion there's the tacit understanding that it's Serious Well, now, I'm glad to hear that, Wil | | Saturday, December 18th, 2010 | | 5:34 am |
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@@@@@One, two, three; the shells flew in the @@@@@One, two, three; the shells flew in the air—and then they stopped! They stopped, the explosions replaced by a sickening, jamming click as the round in the chamber failed to ejectCarlos lurched to the ground for his weapon, his left arm limp and bleeding but his right hand still strong, clutching the gun like the claw of a crazed animal Bourne whipped his bayonet out of its scabbard- and sprang forward, slicing the blade down toward the Jackal’s forearmHe was too late! Carlos held the weapon! Jason lunged up, his left hand clasping the hot barrel—hold on, hold on! You can’t let it go! Twist it! Clockwise! Use the bayonet—no, don’t! Drop it! Use both hands! The conflicting commands clashed in his head, madnessHe had no breath, no strength; his eyes could not focus—the shoulderLike Bourne himself, the Jackal was wounded in his right shoulder! Hold on! Reach the shoulder but hold on! With a last, gasping final surge, Bourne shot up and crashed Carlos back into the side of the van, pummeling the wounded areaThe Jackal screamed, dropping the weapon, then kicked it under the vehicle Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM 434 Where the blow came from, Jason at first did not know; he only knew that the left side of his skull seemed suddenly split in twoThen he realized that he had done it to himself! He had slipped on the blood-covered gravel, and had crashed into the metal grille of the vanIt did not matter— nothing mattered! Carlos the Jackal was racing away! With the rampant confusion everywhere, there were a hundred ways he could get out of NovgorodIt had all been for nothing! Still, there was his last grenadeWhy not? Bourne removed it, pulled the pin, and threw it over the van into the center of the parking areaThe explosion followed and Jason got to his feet; perhaps the grenade would tell Benjamin something, warn him to keep his eyes on the area Staggering and barely able to walk, Jason started for the break in the fence that led to the guardhouse and the tunnel Oh, God, Marie, I failed! I’m so sorryNothing! It was for nothing! And then, as if all Novgorod were having a final laugh at his expense, he saw that someone had opened the iron gates to the tunnel, giving the Jackal his invitation to freedom?” Benjamin’s astonished voice floated over the sounds of the river, followed by the sight of the young Soviet running out of the guardhouse toward Bourne“Christ almighty, I thought you were dead!” “So you opened the gates and let my executioner walk away,” yelled Jason weakly“Why didn’t you send a limousine for him?” “I suggest you look again, Professor,” replied a breathless Benjamin as he stopped in front of Bourne, studying Jason’s battered face and bloodstained clothing“Old age has withered your eyesight “What?” “You want gates, you’ll have gates The trainer shouted an order toward the guardhouse in RussianSeconds later the huge iron gates descended, covering the mouth of the tunnelBut something was strangeBourne had not actually seen the lowered gates before, yet these were not like anything he might have imagi | | Saturday, December 11th, 2010 | | 5:54 am |
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Once the symptoms begin to manifest, @@@@@ Once the symptoms begin to manifest, usually as a loss of short-term memory, a clock begins to run I think Elizabeth's time may be up, and I'm very sorryIt's clear to me, I think it was clear to everyone at the lecture, that all this fuss makes you uncomfortable-" "You can say that again " - but if she'd been there, she would have enjoyed it for youI've known her most of my life, and I can tell you she would have supervised everything, including the hanging of each and every picture in the gallery "I wish I'd known her then," I saidWhen she was forty-five and I was twenty, we won the mixed doubles amateur tennis tournament at The Colony on Longboat KeyI 633 was home from college on semester breakI've still got the cupI imagine she's still got hers, somewhere That made me think of something - You'll find it, I'm sure - but before I could chase that memory to its source, something else occurred to me Something much more recentHadlock - Gene - did Elizabeth herself ever paint? Or draw?" "Elizabeth? Never "You're sure of thatI asked her once, and I remember the occasion very wellIt was when Norman Rockwell was in town to lectureHe didn't stay at your place, either; he stayed at the RitzNorman Rockwell, pipe and all!" Gene Hadlock shook his head, smiling more widely now"Ye gods, what a controversy that was, the howling when the Arts Council announced MrSaturday Evening Post was comingIt was Elizabeth's idea and she loved the hubbub it caused, said they could have filled Ben Hill Griffin Stadium-" He saw my blank look"The University of Florida'The swamp where only Gators come out alive'?" 634 "If you're talking football, my interest begins with the Vikings and ends with the Packers "The point is, I asked her about her own artistic abilities during the Rockwell uproar - and he did indeed sell out; not the Geldbart, either, but City CenterElizabeth laughed and said she could hardly draw stick figu | | Friday, December 10th, 2010 | | 5:36 am |
@@@@@Probably Miss Crawford will choose @@@@@Probably Miss Crawford will choose the barouche-box herself “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 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 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 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, 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 Edmund’s only reply, and the subject dropt | | Tuesday, December 7th, 2010 | | 5:34 am |
@@@@@Ridges and Goldstein reeled forward like @@@@@Ridges and Goldstein reeled forward like blind men, their bodies expressing a mute eloquenceBehind them the animals were silent, passing a warning through the congested channels of the jungleIt might have been a funeral march They descended a waterfall from one flat waist-high rock to another, Ridges dropping down first, and standing in the foam while Goldstein slid the litter over, and flopped down to join himThey struggled through the deeper water, which lashed at their thighs, floating the litter between themThey worked along the riverbanks, splashed through shallow water againThey stumbled and staggered and fell many times, Wilson's body almost washing awayThey could not go more than a few feet without halting, and their sobbing fitted into the murmurs of the jungle, was lost in the washing of the water They were bound to the stretcher and the corpseWhenever they fell they would lunge first at Wilson's body, and become conscious only when they had secured him of the water pouring into their own mouthsIt went deeper than any instinct they had ever hadThey did not think of what they would do with him when they reached the end, they did not even remember any longer that he was deadHis burden had been the vital thingDead, he was as much alive to them as he had ever been And yet they lost himThey came to the rapids where Hearn had carried the vine diagonally across the streamIt had washed away in the four days that had elapsed and the water churned viciously through the rocks now with no support to guide themThey hardly realized their dangerThey stepped down into the rapids, took three or four steps, and were upset in the swirling of the waterThe litter ripped out of their enfeebled fingers, dragged them in their harness after itThey wallowed and tumbled through the rough water, glancing off rocks, choking and swallowingThey made feeble efforts to free themselves, tried desperately to stand up, but the current was too violentHalf drowned, they let the water carry them The litter split against a rock, and they heard the canvas ripping, but the sound was only an isolated sensation in the panic they felt at swallowing waterThey thrashed once more and the litter broke completely in two, the harness ripping free from their shoulders | | Monday, December 6th, 2010 | | 5:43 am |
@@@@@I miss it sometimes so @@@@@I miss it sometimes so terriblyBut, somehow, Tara's more like a dream than a memoryIt belongs in the past, like the Scarlett I used to beThat life and that person don't have anything to do with me any moreCat's Tara is the Irish TaraI'm The O'Hara of Ballyhara I'll keep my shares of Tara for Wade and Ella's inheritance, but I'll sell everything in Atlanta and cut those tiesBallyhara's my home nowOur roots go deep here, Cat's and mine and Pa'sI'll take some O 'Hara land with me when I go, some earth to mix into the Georgia clay of Gerald O'Hara's grave Her mind touched briefly on the business she had to deal withWhat she must concentrate on was the best way to tell Wade and Ella about their wonderful new homeThey wouldn't believe she wanted them-why should they? In truth she never had Until she discovered what it felt like to love a child, to be a real motherIt's going to be hard, Scarlett told herself many times, but I can do itI can make up for the pastI've got so much love in me that it just spills overI want to give some to my son and my daughterThey might not like Ireland at first, it's so different, but once we go to Market Day a couple of times, and the races, and I buy them their own ponies Ella should look darling in skirts and petticoats, tooAll little girls love to dress up They'll have millions of cousins, with all the O 'Haras around, and the children in Ballyhara town to play with You cannot leave until after Easter, Scarlett darling," said Colum"There's a ceremony on Good Friday that only The O 'Hara can do Scarlett didn't ar | | Saturday, December 4th, 2010 | | 5:34 am |
@@@@@Stop for a late lunch or an early dinner? @@@@@Stop for a late lunch or an early dinner? Fill my gas tank and then continue on to Tucson in order to reveal my fresh discoveries to the Seeker? The thought was so repellent that my jaw locked against the sudden heave of my empty stomachI slammed on the brake reflexively, screeching to a stop in the middle of the laneI was lucky; there were no cars to hit me from behindThere were also no drivers to stop and offer their help and concernFor this moment, the highway was emptyThe sun beat down on the pavement, making it shimmer, disappear in places This shouldn't have felt like a betrayal, the idea of continuing on my right and proper course My first language, the true language of the soul that was spoken only on our planet of origin, had no word forbetrayal ortraitorOr evenloyalty –because without the existence of an opposite, the concept had no meaning And yet I felt a deep well of guilt at the very idea of the SeekerIt would be wrong to tell her what I knewrong, how? I countered my own thought viciouslyIf I stopped here and listened to the seductive suggestions of my host, I would truly be a traitor And yet I knew what I wanted, more powerfully and vividly than anything I had ever wanted in all the eight lives I'd livedThe image of Jared's face danced behind my eyelids when I blinked against the sun–not Melanie's memory this time, but my memory of hersShe forced nothing on me nowI could barely feel her in my head as she waited–I imagined her holding her breath, as if that were possible–for me to make my decision I could not separate myself from this body's wantsIt was me, more than I'd ever intended it to beDid I want or did it want? Did that distinction even matter now? In my rearview mirror, the glint of the sun off a distant car caught my eye I moved my foot to the accelerator, starting slowly toward the little store in the shadow of the peakThere was really only one thing to do CHAPTER 10 Turned The electric bell rang, announcing another visitor to the convenience storeI started guiltily and ducked my head behind the shelf of goods we were examining Stop acting like a criminal,Melanie advis |
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