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    Monday, January 3rd, 2011
    8:10 am
    @@@@@ “You can probably guess what it isJeb and
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    “You can probably guess what it isJeb and Jamie spent all night jabbering at me”
    I waited for the question, staring across the dark hall at the rice bag–last night's pillowIn my
    peripheral vision, I saw his hand come up, and I cringed into the wall
    “I'm not going to hurt you,” he said again, impatient, and cupped my chin in his rough hand,
    pulling my face around so I had to look at him
    My heart stuttered when he touched me, and there was suddenly too much moisture in my eyes
    I blinked, trying to clear them He said my name slowly–unwillingly, I could tell, though his voice was even and
    toneless“Is Melanie still alive–still part of you? Tell me the truth
    Melanie attacked with the brute strength of a wrecking ballIt was physically painful, like the
    sudden stab of a migraine headache, where she tried to force her way out
    Stop it! Can't you see?
    It was so obvious in the set of his lips, the tight lines under his eyesIt didn't matter what I said
    or what she said
    I'm already a liar to him,I told here doesn't want the truth–he's just looking for evidence,
    some way to prove me a liar, a Seeker, to Jeb and Jamie so that he'll be allowed to kill me
    Melanie refused to answer or believe me; it was a struggle to keep her silent
    Jared watched the sweat bead on my forehead, the strange shiver that shook down my spine,
    and his eyes narrowedHe held on to my chin, refusing to let me hide my face
    Jared, I love you,she tried to scream
    My lips didn't quiver, but I was surprised that he couldn't read the words spelled out plainly in
    my eyes
    Time passed slowly while he waited for my answerIt was agonizing, having to stare into his
    eyes, having to see the revulsion thereAs if that weren't enough, Melanie's anger continued to
    slice at me from the insideHer jealousy swelled into a bitter flood that washed through my
    body and left it polluted
    More time passed, and the tears welled up until they couldn't be contained in my eyes anymore
    Sunday, January 2nd, 2011
    8:10 am
    @@@@@It made him feel very mature for a moment;
    @@@@@It made him feel very mature for a moment; these were things which had happened just a few years ago, insignificant things nowHe was trying to imagine what combat would be like, and he decided it would be impossible to guessHe had always pictured it as something violent, going on for days without haltAnd here he had been in the platoon for over a week and nothing had happened; everything had been peaceful and relaxed
    "Do you think we'll see much tonight, Red?" he asked softly
    "Ask the General," Red snortedHe liked Wyman, but he tried to be unfriendly to him because the youth reminded Red of HennesseyRed had a deep loathing of the night before themHe had been through so much combat, had felt so many kinds of terror, and had seen so many men killed that he no longer had any illusions about the inviolability of his own fleshHe knew he could be killed; it was something he had accepted long ago, and he had grown a shell about that knowledge so that he rarely thought of anything further ahead than the next few minutesHowever, there had been lately a disquieting uncomfortable insight which he had never brought to the point of words, and it was bothering himUntil Hennessey had been killed, Red had accepted all the deaths of the men he knew as something large and devastating and meaninglessMen who were killed were merely men no longer around; they became confused with old friends who had gone to the hospital and never come back, or men who had been transferred to another outfitWhen he heard of some man he knew who had been killed or wounded badly, he was interested, even a little concerned, but it was the kind of emotion a man might feel if he learned that a friend of his had got married or made or lost some moneyIt was merely something that happened to somebody he knew, and Red had always let it go at thatBut Hennessey's death had opened a secret fearIt was so ironic, so obvious, when he remembered the things Hennessey had said, that he found himself at the edge of a bottomless dread
    Once he could have looked ahead to what he knew would be bad combat with a repugnance for the toil and misery of it, and a dour acceptance of the deaths that would occurBut now the idea of death was fresh and terrifying again
    "You want to know something?" he said to Wyman
    "Yeah?"
    "They ain't a thing you can do about it, so shut up Wyman was hurt and lapsed into silenceRed felt sorry immediately afterward, and drew out a bar of tropical chocolate, bent out of shape and covered with tobacco grains from the silt of his pockets"Hey, you want some chocolate?" he asked
    They felt the night about the
    Saturday, January 1st, 2011
    8:11 am
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    Had he done as he intended, and as he knew he ought, by going
    down to Everingham after his return from Portsmouth, he might
    have been deciding his own happy destinyBut he was pressed to
    stay for MrsFraser’s party; his staying was made of flattering consequence,
    and he was to meet MrsCuriosity and
    409
    Jane Austen
    vanity were both engaged, and the temptation of immediate pleasure
    was too strong for a mind unused to make any sacrifice to
    right: he resolved to defer his Norfolk journey, resolved that writing
    should answer the purpose of it, or that its purpose was unimportant,
    and staidRushworth, was received by her with a
    coldness which ought to have been repulsive, and have established
    apparent indifference between them for ever; but he was mortified,
    he could not bear to be thrown off by the woman whose smiles had
    been so wholly at his command: he must exert himself to subdue so
    proud a display of resentment; it was anger on Fanny’s account; he
    must get the better of it, and make MrsRushworth Maria Bertram
    again in her treatment of himself
    In this spirit he began the attack, and by animated perseverance
    had soon re-established the sort pearl chanel of familiar intercourse, of gallantry,
    of flirtation, which bounded his views; but in triumphing over the
    discretion which, though beginning in anger, might have saved them
    both, he had put himself in the power of feelings on her side more
    strong than he had supposedShe loved him; there was no withdrawing
    attentions avowedly dear to herHe was entangled by his
    own vanity, with as little excuse of love as possible, and without the
    smallest inconstancy of mind towards her cousinTo keep Fanny
    and the Bertrams from a knowledge of what was passing became his
    first objectSecrecy could not have been more desirable for Mrs
    Rushworth’s credit than he felt it for his ownWhen he returned
    from Richmond, he would have been glad to see MrsAll that followed was the result of her imprudence; and he
    went off with her at last, because he could not help it, regretting
    Fanny even at the moment, but regretting her infinitely more when
    all the bustle of the intrigue was over, and a very few months had
    taught him, by the force of contrast, to place a yet higher value on
    the sweetness of her temper, the purity of her mind, and the excellence
    of her principles
    That gucci fashion punishment, the public punishment of disgrace, should in a
    just measure attend his share of the offence is, we know, not one of
    the barriers which society gives to virtueIn this world the penalty is
    less equal than could be wished; but without presuming to look
    forward to a juster appointment hereafter, we may fairly consider a
    410
    Mansfield Park
    man of sense, like Henry Crawford, to be providing for himself no
    small portion of vexation and regret: vexation that must rise sometimes
    to self-reproach, and regret to wretchedness, in having so requited
    hospitality, so injured family peace, so forfeited his best, most
    estimable, and endeared acquaintance, and so lost the woman whom
    he had rationally as well as passionately loved
    After what had passed to wound and alienate the two families, the
    continuance of the Bertrams and Grants in such close neighbourhood
    would have been most distressing; but the absence of the latter, for
    some months purposely lengthened, ended very fortunately in the
    necessity, or at least the practicability, of a permanent removal
    Grant, through an interest on which he had almost ceased to form
    hopes, succeeded to a chanel vintage stall in Westminster, which, as affording an
    occasion for leaving Mansfield, an excuse for residence in London,
    and an increase of income to answer the expenses of the change,
    was highly acceptable to those who went and those who staidGrant, with a temper to love and be loved, must have gone
    with some regret from the scenes and people she had been used to;
    but the same happiness of disposition must in any place, and any
    society, secure her a great deal to enjoy, and she had again a home to
    offer Mary; and Mary had had enough of her own friends, enough
    of vanity, ambition, love, and disappointment in the course of the
    last half-year, to be in need of the true kindness of her sister’s heart,
    and the rational tranquillity of her waysThey lived together; and
    when DrGrant had brought on apoplexy and death, by three great
    institutionary dinners in one week, they still lived together; for Mary,
    though perfectly resolved against ever attaching herself to a younger
    brother again, was long in finding among the dashing representatives,
    or idle heir-apparents, who were at the command of her beauty, and
    her 20,000, any one who could satisfy the better taste cartier must 21 she had acquired
    at Mansfield, whose character and manners could authorise a
    hope of the domestic happiness she had there learned to estimate, or
    put Edmund Bertram sufficiently out of her head
    Edmund had greatly the advantage of her in this respectHe had
    not to wait and wish with vacant affections for an object worthy to
    succeed her in themScarcely had he done regretting Mary Crawford,
    and observing to Fanny how impossible it was that he should ever
    411
    Jane Austen
    meet with such another woman, before it began to strike him whether
    a very different kind of woman might not do just as well, or a great
    deal better: whether Fanny herself were not growing as dear, as important
    to him in all her smiles and all her ways, as Mary Crawford
    had ever been; and whether it might not be a possible, an hopeful
    undertaking to persuade her that her warm and sisterly regard for
    him would be foundation enough for wedded love
    I purposely abstain from dates on this occasion, that every one
    may be at liberty to fix their own, aware that the cure of unconquerable
    passions, and the transfer of unchanging attachments, must
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    Friday, December 31st, 2010
    8:18 am
    @@@@@The governor isn’t one of the Jackal’s army
    @@@@@The governor isn’t one of the
    Jackal’s army of old menHe’s a different kind of recruit, probably like that lawyer Gates in
    Boston—just bought or frightened, no soul involved
    “You’re certain? Your brother-in-law is certain?”
    “The man’s out on his boatHe was given a bare-bones outline but that’s all, and his orders were
    that he’s not to be told anything else until it’s all over
    The Frenchman sighed“It’s a pity my mind is so old and so filled with saltIf I had
    remembered, we could have used him
    “How could we have used him?” asked Bourne, again holding out his arms
    “He removed himself to the gradins—how is it said?”
    “The bleachersHe’s out of the game, only an observer
    “I’ve known many like himThey want Carlos to lose; he wants Carlos to loseIt’s his only way
    out, but he’s too terrified to raise a hand against the Jackal
    “Then how could we turn him?” Jason buttoned the tunic as Fontaine manipulated the belt and
    the cloth behind him
    “Le Caméléon asks such a question?”
    “I’ve been out of practice
    “Ah, yes,” said the Frenchman, yanking the belt firmly“That man I’ve appealed toHow?”
    “Très simple, monsieurWe tell him the Jackal already knows he’s turned—I tell himWho
    better than the monseigneur’s emissary?”
    “You are good Bourne held in his stomach as Fontaine turned him around, pressing the lapels
    and the ribbons of the jacket
    “I’m a survivor, neither better nor worse than others—except with my womanThen I was better
    than most
    “You loved her very much, didn’t you?”
    “Love? Oh, I imagine that’s taken for granted although rarely expressedPerhaps it’s the
    comfort of being familiar, although, again, hardly with grand pas
    Thursday, December 30th, 2010
    8:10 am
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    Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
    8:10 am
    @@@@@The jarring impact had the effect he
    @@@@@The jarring impact had the effect
    he wanted: my legs came loose
    But before he could take advantage, there was another result
    The cracking sound was deafeningI thought the whole cave was coming downThe floor
    shuddered beneath us
    Kyle gasped and jumped back, taking me–hands still locked in his hair–with himThe rock
    under his feet, with more cracking and groaning, began to crumble away
    Our combined weight had broken the brittle lip of the holeAs Kyle stumbled away, the
    crumbling followed his heavy stepsIt was faster than he was
    A piece of the floor disappeared from under his heel, and he went down with a thudMy weight
    pushed him back hard, and his head smacked sharply against a stone pillarHis arms fell away
    from me, limp
    The cracking of the floor settled into a sustained groanI could feel it shiver beneath Kyle's
    bodyOur legs dangled above empty space, the steam condensing into a million
    drops on our skin
    “Kyle?”
    There was no answer
    I was afraid to move
    You've got to get off himYou're too heavy togetherCarefully–use the pillarPull away from
    the hole
    Whimpering in fear, too terrified to think for myself, I did as Melanie orderedI freed my fingers
    from Kyle's hair and climbed gingerly over his unconscious form, using the pillar as an anchor to
    pull myself forwardIt felt steady enough, but the floor still moaned unde
    Monday, December 27th, 2010
    8:10 am
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    The General lit a cigarette and extinguished the match with a slow wave of his hand"I assure you, Robert, there are a few other concerns in my mind
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    Sunday, December 26th, 2010
    8:10 am
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    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 omega seamaster gold shadows in the corners of the room
    became populated with the smiling, shining youth of those who were
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    but now-at last-no longer lost because they could be remembered with
    fond laughter instead of desperate bitternessThe older generation
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    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 daytona rolex 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
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    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
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    determination to survive and to protect her familyBut the shared
    memories in the dining room at Mimosa were not at all a source of
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    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
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    Saturday, December 25th, 2010
    8:18 am
    @@@@@I’ll order her away in anger, out of my
    @@@@@I’ll order her away in anger, out of my sight at the first sign of contactAs I walk
    with her I shall lament the absence of my new dear friend, the angel of mercy who takes such good
    care of my wife, wondering out loud, What has happened to her? Where has she gone? Why
    haven’t I seen her all day? Naturally, I will conceal on my person the radio, activated, of course
    Wherever I am taken—for surely one of Carlos’s men will make contact first—I will ask an
    enfeebled old man’s questionsWhy am I going here? Why are we there? You will follow—in
    full force, I sincerely hopeIf you do so, you’ll have the Jackal
    Holding his head straight, his neck rigid, Bourne walked to StJacques’s desk and sat on the
    edge“Your friend, Judge Brendan what’s-his-name, is right—”
    “PrefontaineAlthough Fontaine is not my true name, we’ve decided it’s all the same family
    When the earliest members left Alsace-Lorraine for America in the eighteenth century with
    Lafayette, they added the Pre to distinguish them from the Fontaines who spread out all over
    France
    “He told you that?”
    “He’s a brilliant man, once an honored judge
    “Lafayette came from Alsace-Lorraine?”
    “I don’t know, monsieurI’ve never been there
    “He’s a brilliant manMore to the point; he’s rightYour plan has a lot of merit, but there’s
    also considerable riskAnd I’ll be honest with you, Fontaine, I don’t give a damn about the risk
    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
    166
    you’re taking or about the nurse, whoever it isI want the Jackal, and if it costs your life or the life
    of a woman I don’t know, it doesn’t matter to meI want you to understand that
    The old Frenchman stared at Jason with amused rheumy eyes and laughed softly“You are such
    a transparent contradictionJason Bourne would never have said what you just didHe would have
    remained silent, accepting my proposition without comment but knowing the advantage
    Webb’s husband, however, must have a v
    Friday, December 24th, 2010
    8:10 am
    @@@@@Ava Goldstein came running from the front
    @@@@@Ava
    Goldstein came running from the front door of the
    Goldstein house, crying her daughter's name
    Goldstein's blouse was half-buttoned
    "Don't touch him, honey, don't touch him," MrsShe was still holding her cigarette
    and she puffed nervously at it
    Monica paid no attentionShe stroked Gandalf's
    sideThe dog screamed again when she did - it was
    a scream - and Monica covered her eyes with the
    heels of her handsShe began to shake her headFevereau reached out for the girl, but
    changed her mindShe took two steps back, leaned
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    against the high side of her Hummer, and looked up
    at the skyGoldstein knelt beside her daughter"Honey,
    oh honey please don't
    Gandalf lay in the street, in a pool of his
    spreading blood, howlingAnd now I could also
    remember the sound the crane had madeNot the
    meep-meep-meep it was supposed to make (its backup
    warning had been broken), but the juddering
    stutter of its diesel engine and the sound of its
    treads eating up the earth
    "Get her inside, Ava," I said"Get her in the
    houseGoldstein got an arm around her daughter's
    shoulders and urged her up
    "Not without Gandalf!" Monica was eleven, and
    mature for her age, but in those moments she had
    regressed to three"Not without my doggy!" Her
    sash, the last three inches now sodden with blood,
    thwapped against the side of her skirt and a long
    line of blood spattered down her calf
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    "Monica, go in and call the vet," I told her"Say
    Gandalf's been hit by a carSay he has to come
    right awayI'll stay with your dog while you do
    Monica looked at me with eyes that were more than
    grief-stricken, more than shock
    Thursday, December 23rd, 2010
    8:10 am
    @@@@@ “Knew she was gonna overreact,” Jeb
    @@@@@
    “Knew she was gonna overreact,” Jeb grumbled
    “So why did you tell her?” Ian asked, frustratedI wondered why he didn'tWas this worse even than I imagined?
    “Is he in the hospital?” I asked in an emotionless, inflectionless voice
    “No, no,” Ian assured me quickly
    I didn't even feel relief
    I would have gone into that room again for Jamie, even if it was still reeking of blood
    I didn't see the familiar caves I walked throughI barely noticed that it was dayI couldn't meet
    the eyes of any of the humans who stopped to stare at meI could only put one foot in front of
    the other until I finally reached the hallway
    There were a few people clustered in front of the seventh caveThe silk screen was pushed far
    aside, and they craned their necks to see into Jared's roomThey were all familiar, people I'd
    considered friendsJamie's friends, tooWhy were they here? Was his condition so unstable that
    they needed to check on him often?
    “Wanda,” someone said
    “Let her through,” Wes saidHe slapped Jeb on the back
    I walked through the little group without looking at themThey parted for me; I might have
    walked right into them if they hadn'tI couldn't concentrate on anything but moving myself
    forward
    It was bright in the high-ceilinged roomThe room itself was not crowdedDoc or Jared had
    kept everyone outI was vaguely aware of Jared, leaning against the far wall with his hands
    clasped behind him–a posture he assumed only when he was really wor
    Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010
    8:20 am
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    The man who had combat fatigue screamed again, and Minetta sat up shudderingI gotta get some sleep, I can't take thisHe began to shout out"There's the Jap, I see him, I see him, I'm going to kill him!" He got off his cot and began to wander about the dirt floor of the tentThe earth was cold and damp against his bare feetHe trembled genuinely
    The orderly got up from his chair and sighed"Oh, man, what a ward He picked up a hypodermic from the table beside him and approached Minetta He let himself be marched back to his cot
    He held his breath while the needle jabbed into his muscle, and then exhaled"Oh, what a time," he groaned
    The man who had the chest wound was making the bubbling coughing sounds again, but to Minetta they sounded remoteHe relaxed, feeling comfortable and warm, thinking about the sedativeI'll become a dope addictaah, anyway to get out
    In the morning he awoke to find that one of the patients was deadThe blanket was drawn up over the dead man's head and his feet made a stiff peak which traced an icy caress along Minetta's spineHe looked at the body and turned awayThere was an envelope of intense silence about itThere's something different about a guy when he's dead, Minetta thoughtHe felt an acute curiosity about the man's face under the blanket; he wondered what it looked
    Sunday, December 19th, 2010
    8:11 am
    @@@@@ "Pigs live in the pigpen," said tiny Peg
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    "Pigs live in the pigpen," said tiny Peg with a self-important air
    "Don't they, Maureen?" Scarlett was shockedIn her world, children
    never called adults by their first nameBut Maureen seemed to find it
    nothing out of the ordinary"They live in the pigpen if no one lets
    them out," she said with a wink"You weren't thinking of taking the
    piglets out of the pen to play with, now, were you?"
    Michael and his sisters laughed as if Maureen's joke was the funniest
    thing they'd ever heardThen they ran through the kitchen to the
    back
    door that led into a large yard shared by all the housesScarlett's
    eyes took in the glowing coals on the hearth, the shiny copper of the
    tea kettle on the crane, and the pans hanging above the mantel
    Funny,
    she'd thought she would never set foot in a kitchen again once the bad
    days at Tara were overBut this was differentIt was a place to
    live, a happy place to be, not just the room where food was prepared
    and dishes washedShe wished she could stayThe static beauty of
    her grandfather's drawing room made her shiver inside when she
    thought
    of itBut she belonged in a drawing room, not a kitchenShe was a
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    Saturday, December 18th, 2010
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    but I don’t speak FrenchDo you?”
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    "Art is never easy, young woman," Elizabeth knock off louis vuitton said
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    Elizabeth smiled at her, then turned to me"I
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    CHAPTER FIVE
    Lesson Four:The History of and The Power of Corporation

    I remember in school being told the story of Robin Hood and his Merry MenMy schoolteacher thought it was a wonderful story of a romantic hero, a Kevin Costner type, who robbed from the rich and gave to the poorMy rich dad did not see Robin Hood as a heroHe called Robin Hood a crook
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    Friday, December 10th, 2010
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    Tuesday, December 7th, 2010
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    the baby
    She held out her hands for Cat"One more word," said Grainne Scarlett felt afraidShe wished she hadn't brought Cat
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    therefromGrainne's stained fingers gently undid
    Cat's graspShe brushed her soft wisp-covered head with a kiss and a
    murmur Then she gave the baby to Scarlett"I will
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    I am grateful for the gift of seeing her, and for your thanksBut do
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    to those they hate Scarlett was glad to
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    She plodded doggedly through the cold rain that had begun to fall
    Her
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    Cat made sucking noises beneath the shelter of Scarlett's cloakFitzpatrick eyed the wet cloak on the floor by the fire, but she
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