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    Monday, January 3rd, 2011
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    3
    Jane Austen
    Mansfield Park
    (1814)
    by
    Jane Austen
    (1775-1817)
    CHAPTER I
    ABOUT THIRTY YEARS AGO Miss Maria Ward, of Huntingdon, with
    only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir
    Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton,
    and to be thereby raised to the rank of a baronet’s lady, with all the
    comforts and consequences of an handsome house and large income
    All Huntingdon exclaimed on the greatness of the match,
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    thousand pounds short of any equitable claim to itShe had two
    sisters to be benefited by her elevation; and such of their acquaintance
    as thought Miss Ward and Miss Frances quite as handsome as
    Miss Maria, did not scruple to predict their marrying with almost
    equal advantageBut there certainly are not so many men of large
    fortune in the world as there are pretty women to deserve them
    Miss Ward, at the end of half a dozen years, found herself obliged to
    be attached to the RevNorris, a friend of her brother-in-law,
    with scarcely any private fortune, and Miss Frances fared yet worse
    Miss Ward’s match, indeed, when it came to the point, was not
    4
    Mansfield Park
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    In that way Mary ushered in the dawn with himThe hills were shaking off the night mists and the dew was sparklingFor this brief moment the ridges about him appeared soft and feminineAll the men scattered around him looked damp and chilly, dark bundles from which mist roseHe was ladies rolex watches the only man awake for a distance of many miles, and he had the youth of the morning all to himself
    Out of the dawn, far on the other side of the mountain, he could hear artillery boomingIt shattered his reverie
    Gallagher swallowed, wondering with a dumb misery how long it would be before he would stop tricking himselfThere was nothing now to anticipate, and he was conscious for the first time Cartier tank of how tired he wasHis limbs ached and his sleep seemed to have done him no goodThe character of the dawn changed, left him shuddering in his blanket, damp and cold from the night's dew
    There was still his child, the boy he had never seen, but that did not cheer himHe believed he would never live to see him, and the knowledge was almost without pain, a dour certainty in his mindToo many men had louis vuitton duffle bag been killedWith a sick fascination, he envisioned a factory, watched his bullet being made, packed into a carton
    If only I could see a picture of the kidIt wasn't so much to askIf only he could get back from this patrol and live long enough for some mail to come with a picture of his kid
    But he was miserable again, certain he had tricked himselfHe shivered from fright, looking about him uneasily purse louis vuitton at the mountains reared on every side
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    Sunday, January 2nd, 2011
    1:07 pm
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    @@@@@The main Japanese supply depot was about a mile and a half behind E Company's new positions, and maybe he should try to capture thatOr he could roll up the flankBut the Major could not imagine thatThe hole was a hole on paperHe had visited all the positions, he knew what the bivouacs looked like, but he had never understood exactly what went onThere were spaces between the companiesThe front was not a solid line -- it was a string of dots separated from each otherNow he had some men behind the Japanese dots and he would have more later, but what would they do? How did you go about rolling up a flank? He had a picture for a moment of the troops moving sullenly along a jungle trail swearing at the heat, but he could not connect that to the figures on the map
    An insect crawled sluggishly over his desk and he flicked it offJust what in the Sam Hill was he going to do? By tonight everything would be a shamblesNobody would know where anybody else was, and they'd never get all the wire laid straightThe radios would probably be out from static or some lousy hillThey always were when you needed themUntil now this thing had been kept within bounds but he would have to bring in Mooney, the signal officer, and G-4 was already tied up with transportationIntelligence would have to stay up all night with himOf all the days to have to put in a session of work like thisIf it came to nothing he'd never hear the end of it
    The Major felt like laughingHe had the involuntary stupid merriment of a man who has pitched a pebble down a hill and watched it magnify itself into an avalancheWhy couldn't the General be here? As a corollary of all this he could feel the added activity about himEveryone was working in the operations tent, and he could see men moving back and forth through the bivouac all obviously on errandsFar away, he could hear the rumble of a convoy of trucks disturbing the languid tropical airHe had set all this in motionHe could not really believe it
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    7:06 am
    @@@@@ The warmth and lilt was back in his
    @@@@@ The warmth and lilt was back in his voice"It's an
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    'Scarlett darling' meI'm not buying any charm, ColumThat man
    tried to kill meWho is he? Why are you sneaking around to meet
    him?
    What is going on here?" Colum's face was only a pale blur in the
    shadowsHis collar was startlingly white"Come where we can see,"
    he said quietly, and he walked to a place where thin slats of sunlight
    slanted down from the boarded-over windows
    Scarlett couldn't believe her eyesColum was smiling at her"Ach,
    the pity of it is, if we'd had the inn this would never have
    happened
    I wanted to keep you out of it, Scarlett darling, it's a worrisome
    thing once you know How could he smile? How did he dare? She
    started, too horrified to speakColum told her about the Fenian
    BrotherhoodWhen he finished, she found her voice"Judas!
    You filthy, lying traitorI thought you my friend
    "I said it was a worrisome thing She felt too heartsick to be angry
    at hissmiling, rueful responseEverything was a betrayal, all of
    it
    He'd been using her, deceiving her from the moment they metThey
    all
    had-Jamie and Maureen, all her cousins in Savannah and Ireland, all
    the
    farmers on Ballyhara, all the people in Ballyhara townHer happiness was a delusion
    Everything was a delusion"Will you listen now, Scarlett?" She hated
    Colum's voice, the music of it, the charm
    Saturday, January 1st, 2011
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    oh Lord, more gushingAt least it doesn't chloe dior hurtHardly a
    contraction at all, more a twitch or something Then why does so
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    Everybody'll have to wash their feetFitzpatrick
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    "I'd like some water Scarlett propped herself on an elbow and drank
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    7:06 am
    @@@@@ She ignored my sour tone wouldn't have
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    She ignored my sour tone wouldn't have thought he'd be able to do it, no matter whatI don't
    think I could hit himIf he'd come at you with reflective eyes, you'd have done the sameYou're
    naturally violent remembered her daydreams of strangling the SeekerThat seemed like months
    ago, though I knew it was only daysIt would make sense if it had been longerIt ought to take
    time to get oneself stuck in such a disastrous mire as the one I was in now
    Melanie tried to consider it impartiallyNot Jared… and Jamie, there's no way I
    could hurt Jamie, even if he was… She trailed off, hating that line of thought
    I considered this and found it trueEven if the child had become something or someone else,
    neither she nor I could ever raise a hand to himYou're like… a motherMothers are irrational hereToo many emotions
    involved
    Motherhood is always emotional–even for you souls
    I didn't answer that
    What do you think is going to happen now?
    You're the expert on humans,I reminded hert's probably not a good thing that they're giving
    me foodI can think of only one reason they'd want me strong
    The few specifics I remembered of historical human brutalities tangled in my head with the
    stories in the old newspaper we'd read the other dayFire–that was a bad oneMelanie had
    burned all the fingerprints off her right hand once in a stupid accident, grabbing a pan she hadn't
    realized was hotI remembered how the pain had shocked her–it was so unexpectedly sharp and
    demanding
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    “Why did you give it water, Jeb?” an angry voice demanded, close behind our back
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    splinter apart
    There were eight humans half-circled around where I knelt under the Tiffany Earrings treeThere was no
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    expressions–not on my kindThese lips twisted with hatred, pulled back over clenched teeth
    like wild animalsThese brows pulled low over eyes that burned with fury
    Six men and two women, some of them very big, most of them bigger than meI felt the rolex watches women blood
    drain from my face as I realized why they held their hands so oddly–gripped tightly in front of
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    those I had kept in my kitchen, and some longer, one huge and menacingThis knife had no
    purpose in a kitchenMelanie supplied the name: amachete
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    I recognized Uncle Jeb in their midstHeld loosely in his hands was an object I'd never seen in
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    You're an idiot,I told her
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    @@@@@ "Unscrew the lens capTake out the
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    Wireman laughed without humor"Wireman likes it,
    ninoBitch or
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    ix
    The fourth rung snappedThe ladder tilted, and I
    fell off with the flashlight still clamped between
    my side and my stump, first shining up at the
    1066
    darkening sky, then illuminating lumps of coral
    coated with mossMy head connected with one of
    these and I saw starsA moment later I was lying
    on a jagged bed of bones and staring into Adriana
    Eastlake Paulson's eternal grinOne of those
    pallid toads leaped at me from between her mossy
    teeth and I batted at it with the barrel of the
    flashlight
    "Muchacho!" Wireman shouted, and Jack added, "Boss,
    are you all right!"
    I was bleeding from the scalp - I could feel it
    running down my face in warm streams - but I
    thought I was okay; certainly I had been through
    worse in the Land of a Thousand LakesAnd the
    ladder, although aslant, was still standingI
    looked to my right and there was the moss-covered
    Table Whiskey keg we'd come all this way to find
    There were two toads on it now instead of one
    They saw me looking and leaped into my face, eyes
    bulging, mouths gapingI had no doubt that Perse
    wished they had teeth, like Elizabeth's big boy
    Ah, the good old days
    "I'm okay," I said, batting the toads away and
    struggling to sit upBones broke beneath me and
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    all around me
    They were too old and damp to breakThey first
    bent, then poppedIt's okay
    to drop it in the bag, just try not to hit me in
    the head with it
    I looked at Nan Melda
    I'm going to take your silver bracelets, I told
    her, but it's not stealin
    Thursday, December 30th, 2010
    1:07 pm
    @@@@@And as you asked, Table X 2, and in ceraI
    @@@@@And as you asked, Table X 2, and
    in ceraI take no credit, just struck lucky, but
    it really is the lastThanks for everything, Pal
    See you when I get back this side of the puddle
    DD
    Wireman touched Table X 2 and said, "The table is
    leakingDoes the rest of this mean anything to
    you, Edgar?"
    It did, but for a moment my damned sick memory
    refused to give it upI can do this, I thought
    and then thought sidewaysFirst to Ilse saying
    973
    Share your pool, mister?, and that hurt, but I let
    it because that was the way inWhat followed was
    the memory of another girl dressed for another
    poolThis girl was all breasts and long legs in a
    black tank suit, she was Mary Ire as Hockney had
    painted her - Gidget in Tampa, she had called her
    younger self - and then I had itI let out a
    breath I hadn't known I was holding
    "DD was Dave Davis," I said"In the Roaring
    Twenties he was a Suncoast mogul
    "How do you know that?"
    "Mary Ire told me," I said, and a cold part of me
    that would probably never warm up again could
    appreciate the irony; life is a wheel, and if you
    wait long enough, it always comes back around to
    where it started"Davis was friends with John
    Eastlake, and apparently supplied Eastlake with
    plenty of good liquor
    "Champers," Jack said"That's champagne, right?"
    Wireman said, "Good for you, Jack, but I want to
    know what Table is
    "It's Spanish," Jack said"You should know that
    974
    Wireman cocked an eyebrow at him"You're thinking
    of será - with an s
    "Doris Day, 1956," I said"The future's not ours
    to see And a good thing, too, I thou
    7:04 am
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    news through the house, Sir Thomas, with a very reasonable dependence,
    perhaps, on the nerves of his wife and children, had sought
    no confidant but the butler, and had been following him almost
    instantaneously into the drawing-roomNorris felt herself defrauded
    of an office on which she had always depended, whether
    his arrival or his death were to be the thing unfolded; and was now
    trying to be in a bustle without having anything to bustle about,
    and labouring to be important where nothing Gucci Indy Bag was wanted but tranquillity
    and silenceWould Sir Thomas have consented to eat, she
    might have gone to the housekeeper with troublesome directions,
    and insulted the footmen with injunctions of despatch; but Sir Thomas
    resolutely declined all dinner: he would take nothing, nothing
    till tea came—he would rather wait for teaNorris was at
    intervals urging something different; and in the most interesting
    moment of his passage to England, when the alarm of a French
    privateer was at the height, she burst through his recital with the
    proposal of soup“Sure, my dear Sir Thomas, a basin of soup would
    be a much better chanel earrings thing for you than teaDo have a basin of soup
    Sir Thomas could not be provoked“Still the same anxiety for
    everybody’s comfort, my dear MrsNorris,” was his answer“But
    indeed I would rather have nothing but tea
    157
    Jane Austen
    “Well, then, Lady Bertram, suppose you speak for tea directly;
    suppose you hurry Baddeley a little; he seems behindhand to-night
    She carried this point, and Sir Thomas’s narrative proceeded
    At length there was a pauseHis immediate communications were
    exhausted, and it seemed enough to be looking joyfully around him,
    now at one, now at another of the beloved circle; but the pause was
    not long: fendi b in the elation of her spirits Lady Bertram became talkative,
    and what were the sensations of her children upon hearing
    her say, “How do you think the young people have been amusing
    themselves lately, Sir Thomas? They have been actingWe have been
    all alive with acting
    “Indeed! and what have you been acting?”
    “Oh! they’ll tell you all about it
    “The all will soon be told,” cried Tom hastily, and with affected
    unconcern; “but it is not worth while to bore my father with it now
    You will hear enough of it to-morrow, sirWe have just been trying,
    by way of doing something, and amusing my mother, just within
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    incessant rains almost since October began, that we have been nearly
    confined to the house for days togetherI have hardly taken out a
    gun since the 3rdTolerable sport the first three days, but there has
    been no attempting anything sinceThe first day I went over
    Mansfield Wood, and Edmund took the copses beyond Easton, and
    we brought home six brace between us, and might each have killed
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    Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
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    “And for the world you would not get out without the key and
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    might with little difficulty pass round the edge of the gate, here, with
    my assistance; I think it might be done, if you really wished to be
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    Fanny, feeling all this to be wrong, could not help making an
    effort to prevent it“You will hurt yourself, Miss Bertram,” she cried;
    “you will certainly hurt yourself against those spikes; you will tear
    your gown; you will be in danger of slipping into the ha-haYou
    had better not go
    Her cousin was safe on the other side while these words were spoken,
    and, smiling with all the good-humour of success, she said,
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    and so good-bye
    Fanny was again left to her solitude, and with no increase of pleasant
    feelings, for she was sorry for almost all that she had seen and
    heard, astonished at Miss Bertram, and angry with Mr
    By taking a circuitous route, and, as it appeared to her, very unreasonable
    direction to the knoll, they were soon beyond her eye; and
    for some minutes longer she remained without sight or sound of
    any companionShe seemed to have the little wood all to herself
    She could almost have thought that Edmund and Miss Crawford
    88
    Mansfield Park
    had left it, but that it watches gucci was impossible for Edmund to forget her so
    entirely
    She was again roused from disagreeable musings by sudden footsteps:
    somebody was coming at a quick pace down the principal
    walkRushworth, but it was Julia, who, hot and
    out of breath, and with a look of disappointment, cried out on seeing
    her, “Heyday! Where are the others? I thought Maria and Mr
    Crawford were with you
    “A pretty trick, upon my word! I cannot see them anywhere,”
    looking eagerly into the park“But they cannot be very far off, and
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    keyI have had enough of the family for one morning
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    perhaps, if you had been in my place, but you always contrive to
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    This was a most unjust reflection, but Fanny could allow for it,
    and let it pass: Julia was vexed, and her temper was hasty; but she
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    7:04 am
    @@@@@“You were known to have a problem, and
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    “What the hell are you driving at?”
    “A third name was added to the clearance procedures for that official record on Hong Kong
    Edward Newington McAllister, by his own insistence and with both presidential and congressional
    authority
    “Oh, my God,” said Conklin softly, hesitantly“When I called him last night from Baltimore he
    said it was impossibleThen he said I had to understand for myself, so he’d set up the conferenceJesus, what happened?”
    “I’d say we’d have to look elsewhere,” said the DCI“But before we do that, MrConklin, you
    have to make a decisionYou see, none of us at this table knows what’s in that maximum classified
    fileWe’ve talked, of course, and as MrCasset said, we understood that you did a hell of a job
    in Hong Kong, but we don’t know what that job wasWe heard the rumors out of our Far East
    stations which, frankly, most of us believed were exaggerated in the spreading, and paramount
    among them was your name and that of the assassin Jason BourneThe scuttlebutt then was that
    you were responsible for the capture and execution of the killer we knew as Bourne, yet a few
    moments ago in your anger you used the phrase ‘the unknown man who assumed the name of Jason
    Bourne,’ stating that he was alive and in hidingIn terms of specifics, we’re at a loss—at least I am,
    God knows
    “You didn’t pull the record out?”
    “No,” answered DeSole“That was my decisionAs you may or may not know, every invasion
    of a maximum-classified file is automatically marked with the date and hour of penetration
    Since the director informed me that there was a large Security Agency flap over an illegal entry, I
    decided to leave well enough aloneNot penetrated in nearly five years, therefore not read or even
    known about and consequently not given to the evil people, whoever they are
    “You were covering your ass right down to the last square inch of flesh
    “Most assuredly, AlexThat data has a White House flag on itThings are relatively stable
    around here now and it serves no one to ruffle feathers in the Oval Of
    Monday, December 27th, 2010
    1:08 pm
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    It was a stairway, but not a convenient oneThey carried the weight of a suitcase on their backs, and they had to climb what amounted to forty flights of stairsTo give an added fillip, the stairs were not of equal heightSometimes they would clamber from one waist-high rock to another, and sometimes they would scrabble up a slope of pebbles and small rocks; sometimes indeed each rock was of a different height and shape than the one that had preceded itAnd the stairway, of course, was littered, so that often they would have to push aside foliage or cut through vines
    Croft had estimated it would take an hour to ascend the wall of the amphitheater, but after an hour they were only halfway upThe men struggled behind him like a wounded caterpillarThey never traveled all at onceA few would advance over a rock and wait for the others to catch upThey advanced in ripples, Croft toiling ahead a few yards and the rest of the platoon filling the gap in a series of spasmodic lurches which traveled like a shock impulseOften they would halt while Croft or Martinez hacked slowly through a tangle of bambooIn a few places the stairway leaped upward in a big bound of seven or ten feet of muddy earth up which they climbed by clutching at roots
    Once more the platoon dropped from one layer of fatigue to another, but this had happened so often in the past few days that it was almost familiar, almost livableWith no surprise they felt their legs become numb, trail after them like a toy which a child drags on a stringNow the men no longer stepped from one high rock to anotherThey dropped their guns on the shelf above, flopped over and dragged their legs after themEven the smallest rocks were too great to step overThey lifted their legs with their arms, and placed their feet on the step before them, tottered like old men out of their beds for an ho
    7:06 am
    @@@@@Then he smiled the mocking smile she knew
    @@@@@Then he smiled the mocking smile
    she knew so well"You do turn up in the most unexpected places,
    Scarlett," he saidHe's laughing at me, and I don't careI don't
    care about anything as long as he'll say my name and stand near me
    She could hear her own heart beating
    "Hello, Rhett," she said, "how are you?" She knew it was a foolish,
    inadequate thing to say, but she had to say somethingRhett's mouth
    twitched"I'm remarkably well for a dead man," he drawled, "or was I
    mistaken? I thought I glimpsed a widow at the dock in CharlestonI had to say somethingI wasn't married, I mean I didn't
    have a husband-"
    "Don't try to explain, Scarlett
    It's not your forte
    "Forty? What are you talking about?" Was he being mean? Please
    don't
    be mean, RhettWhat brings you to Ireland? I
    thought you were in England
    "What made you think that?" Why are we standing here making
    conversation about nothing at all? Why can't I think? Why am I
    saying
    these stupid things? "You didn't get off the ship in Boston
    Scarlett's heart leapt to the meaning of what he'd saidHe'd taken
    the trouble to find out where she was going, he cared about her, he
    wanted to keep her from disappearingHappiness flooded her heart
    "May I assume from your cheerful attire that you're no longer
    mourning
    my death?" said Rhett"Shame on you, Scarlett, I'm not yet cold in
    my grave) She looked down in horror at her peasant clothes, then up
    at his impeccably tailored hacking jacket and perfectly tied white
    stock
    Why did he always have to make her feel like a fool? Why couldn't she
    at least feel angry? Because she loved himWhether he believed it or
    didn't, it was the truthWithout planning or thought of consequences,
    Scarlett looked at the man who had been her husband for so many
    years
    of lies"I love you, Rhett," she said with simple dignity"How
    unfortunate for you, Scar
    Sunday, December 26th, 2010
    1:16 pm
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    good
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    shooting up about the day he hit fourteen last January, and it don't
    look like he's ever going chanel white watch to stopFor all the weedy look, though,
    he's strong as a muleThanks to him there's
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    warm
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    SeptemberSuellen lost a baby last year, another little girl it
    was Oh, Will, I'm so sorry"We decided not to try again," Will
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    7:06 am
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    Ian and Jared exchanged a lookThey'd never heard anything like this beforeThey didn't trust
    me, but they wanted so desperately to believe it was possibleThey wanted it too much
    Jared's voice whipped out with a sudden harshness“Were you ladies gucci watch able toaccess my cabin?”
    “Not for a long time
    “And then you told the Seeker
    “No? Why not?”
    “Because… by the time I could remember it… I didn'twant to tell her
    Ian's eyes were frozen wide
    Jared's voice changed, became low, almost tenderSo much more dangerous than the shouting
    “Why didn't you want to tell her?”
    My chanel white bag jaw locked hardIt was notthe secret, but still, it was a secret he would have to beat out of
    meIn this moment, my determination to hold my tongue had less to do with self-preservation
    than it did with a stupid, grudging kind of prideI wouldnot tell this man who despised me that I
    loved him
    He watched the womens rolex watches defiance flash in my eyes, and he seemed to understand what it would take to
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    wouldn't be able to answer any more questions when he was done with me
    “Why weren't you able to access everything? Is that… normal?”
    This gucci backpack question was very dangerous, tooFor the first time so far, I told an outright lie
    “She fell a long way
    Lying did not come easily to me; this lie fell flatJared and Ian both reacted to the false note
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    Saturday, December 25th, 2010
    1:15 pm
    @@@@@If he'd come at you with reflective eyes,
    @@@@@If he'd come at you with reflective eyes, you'd have done the sameYou're
    naturally violent remembered her daydreams of strangling the SeekerThat seemed like months
    ago, though I knew it was only daysIt would make sense if it had been longerIt ought to take
    time to get oneself stuck in such a disastrous mire as the one I was in now
    Melanie tried to consider it impartiallyNot Jared… and Jamie, there's no way I
    could hurt Jamie, even if he was… She trailed off, hating that line of thought
    I considered this and found it trueEven if the child had become something or someone else,
    neither she nor I could ever raise a hand to himYou're like… a motherMothers are irrational hereToo many emotions
    involved
    Motherhood is always emotional–even for you souls
    I didn't answer that
    What do you think is going to happen now?
    You're the expert on humans,I reminded hert's probably not a good thing that they're giving
    me foodI can think of only one reason they'd want me strong
    The few specifics I remembered of historical human brutalities tangled in my head with the
    stories in the old newspaper we'd read the other dayFire–that was a bad oneMelanie had
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    demanding
    It was just an accident, thoughQuickly treated with ice, salves, medicineNo one had done it
    on purpose, continued on from the first sickening pain, drawing it out longer and longer…
    I'd never lived on a planet where such atrocities could happen, even before the souls came
    7:14 am
    @@@@@I had cleaned them carefully in the
    @@@@@I had cleaned them carefully in the kitchen
    sink at El Palacio, and they jingled
    I had one of the silver-tipped harpoons stuck in
    my belt, behind my left hip, for good measure, but
    I didn't need itThe sand-devil exploded outward
    and upwardA scream of rage and pain went through
    my headThank God it was brief, or I think it
    1106
    would have torn me apartThen there was nothing
    but the sound of the shells under Big Pink and a
    brief dimming of the stars over the dunes to my
    right as the last of the sand blew away in a
    disorganized flurryThe Gulf was once more empty
    except for the moon-gilded rollers, marching in
    toward shoreThe Perse had gone, if it had ever
    been there
    The strength ran out of my legs and I sat down
    with a thumpMaybe I'd end up doing the Crawly-
    Gator the rest of the way, after allIf so, Big
    Pink wasn't farRight now I thought I'd just sit
    here and listen to the shellsThen
    maybe I'd be able to get up and walk those last
    twenty yards or so, go in, and call WiremanTell
    him I was all rightTell him it was done, that
    Jack could come and pick me up
    But for now I would just sit here and listen to
    the shells, which no longer seemed to be talking
    in my voice, or anyone else'sNow I would just
    sit here by myself on the sand, and look out at
    the Gulf, and think about my daughter, Ilse Marie
    Freemantle, who had weighed six pounds and four
    ounces at birth, whose first word had been dog,
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    who had once brought home a large brown balloon
    crayoned on a piece of construction paper,
    shouting exultantly, "I drawed a pitcher of you,
    Daddy!"
    Ilse Marie Freemantle
    22 - June
    i
    I piloted the skiff out to the middle of Lake
    Phalen and killed the motorWe drifted toward the
    little orange marker I'd left thereA few
    pleasure boats buzzed back and forth on the glasssmooth
    surface, but no sailboats; the day was
    perfectly stillThere were a few kids in the
    playground area, a few people in the picnic area,
    and a few on the nearest hiking trail skirting the
    waterOn the whole, though, for a lake that's
    actually within the city limits, the area was
    almost empty
    Wireman - looking strangely un-Florida in a
    fisherman's hat and a Vikings pullover - commented
    on this
    1108
    "School's still in," I said"Give it another
    couple of weeks and there'll be boats buzzing
    everywhere
    Friday, December 24th, 2010
    1:07 pm
    @@@@@ I smiled and sat down beside him"Sea
    @@@@@
    I smiled and sat down beside him"Sea voyages
    aren't in the plan, Jack
    1017
    "Can you open that chicken for me, and tear me off
    a leg?"
    He did as I asked, and they watched, fascinated,
    as I devoured first one leg, then the otherI
    asked if anyone wanted the breast, and when they
    both said no, I ate that, tooHalfway through it
    I thought of my daughter, lying pale and dead in
    Rhode IslandI kept on eating, doing it
    methodically, wiping my greasy hands on my jeans
    between bitesIlse would have understoodNot Pam
    and probably not Lin, but Illy? YesI was
    frightened of what lay ahead, but I knew Perse was
    frightened, tooIf she hadn't been, she would not
    have tried so hard to keep us outOn the contrary,
    she would have welcomed us in
    "Time's wasting, muchacho," Wireman said"And my daughter's dead forever
    I'm still starving, thoughIs there anything
    sweet? Cake? Cookies? A motherfucking HoHo?"
    There wasn'tI settled for another Pepsi and a
    few cucumber strips dipped in ranch dressing,
    which to me has always looked and tasted like
    slightly sweetened snotAt least my headache was
    1018
    fadingThe images that had come to me in the dark
    - the ones that had been waiting all those years
    inside Noveen's rag-stuffed head - were also
    fading, but I had my own pictures to refresh them
    I wiped my hands a final time and put the stack of
    torn and wrinkled sheets on my lap: the family
    album from hell
    "Keep an eye out for that heron," I told Wireman
    He looked around, glanced at the deserted ship
    ticking back and forth out there on the mild swell,
    then looked back at me"Wouldn't the spear-pistol
    be better for Big Bird? With one of the silver
    harpoons attached?"
    "NoThe heron's something she just rides, the way
    a man rides a horseShe'd probably like it if we
    wasted one of the silvertips on it, but Perse is
    done getting what she likes I smiled without
    h
    7:06 am
    @@@@@She would rather, perhaps, have been obliged
    @@@@@She would rather, perhaps, have been obliged to some other
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    personBut this was an unworthy feelingMiss Crawford had anticipated
    her wants with a kindness which proved her a real friend
    “When I wear this necklace I shall always think of you,” said she,
    “and feel how very kind you were
    “You must think of somebody else too, when you wear that necklace,”
    replied Miss Crawford“You must think of Henry, for it was
    his choice in the first placeHe gave it to me, and with the necklace
    I make over to you all the duty of remembering the original giverIt
    is to be a family remembrancerThe sister is not to be in your mind
    without bringing the brother too
    Fanny, in great astonishment and confusion, would have returned
    the present instantlyTo take what had been the gift of another
    person, of a brother too, impossible! it must not be! and with an
    eagerness and embarrassment quite diverting to her companion, she
    laid down the necklace again on its cotton, and seemed resolved
    either to take another or none at allMiss Crawford thought she
    had never seen a prettier consciousness“My dear child,” said she,
    laughing, “what are you afraid of? Do you think Henry will claim
    the necklace as mine, and fancy you did not come honestly by it? or
    are you imagining he would be too much flattered by seeing round
    your lovely throat an ornament which his money purchased three
    years ago, before he knew there was such a throat in the world? or
    perhaps”—looking archly—”you suspect a confederacy between us,
    and that what I am now doing is with his knowledge and at his
    desire?”
    With the deepest blushes Fanny protested against such a thought
    “Well, then,” replied Miss Crawford more seriously, but without
    at all believing her, “to convince me that you suspect no trick, and
    are as unsuspicious of compliment as I have always found you, take
    the necklace and say no more about itIts being a gift of my brother’s
    need not make the smallest difference in your accepting it, as I assure
    you it makes none in my willingness to part with itHe is
    always giving me something or otherI have such innumerable presents
    from him that it is quite impossible for me to value or for him
    to remember halfAnd as for this necklace, I do not suppose I have
    worn it six times: it is very pretty, but I never think of it; and though
    you would be most heartily welcome to any other in my trinket225
    Jane Austen
    box, you have happened to fix on the very one which, if I have a
    choice, I would rather part with and see in your possession than any
    otherSay no more against it, I entreat youSuch a trifle is not
    worth half so many words
    Fanny dared not make any farther opposition; and with renewed
    but less happy thanks accepted the necklace again, for there was an
    expression in Miss Crawford’s eyes which she could not be satisfied
    with
    It was impossible for her to be insensible of MrCrawford’s change
    of mannersHe evidently tried to please her:
    he was gallant, he was attentive, he was something like what he had
    been to her cousins: he wanted, she supposed, to cheat her of her
    tranquillity as he had cheated them; and whether he might not have
    some concern in this necklace—she could not be convinced that he
    had not, for Miss Crawford, complaisant as a sister, was careless as a
    woman and a friend
    Reflecting and doubting, and feeling that the possession of what she
    had so much wished for did not bring much satisfaction, she now walked
    home again, with a change rather than a diminution of cares since her
    treading that path be
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