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    Monday, January 3rd, 2011
    2:34 pm
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    February 8
    Dear Edgar: I am so glad you're enjoying the place
    In answer to your question, the Salmon Point
    property wasn't the only brochure I sent you but
    one of nine detailing lease opportunities in
    Florida and JamaicaAs I recall, Salmon Point was
    the only one you expressed interest inIn fact, I
    remember you saying, "Don't dicker the deal, just
    do it
    Sandy
    I read this message through twice, then murmured,
    "Just do the deal and let the deal do you,
    muchacha
    I couldn't remember the other brochures even now,
    but I remembered the one for Salmon PointThe
    folder it came in had been a bright pinkA big
    pink, you might say, and the words that caught my
    351
    eye hadn't been Salmon Point but those below it,
    embossed in gold: YOUR SECRET GULFSIDE RETREATSo
    maybe it had called me
    Maybe it had, after all
    iv
    KamenDoc to EFree19
    1:46 PM
    February 10
    Edgar: Long time no hear, as the deaf Indian said
    to the prodigal son (please forgive me; bad jokes
    are the only jokes I know)How goes the art?
    Concerning the MRI, I suggest you call the Center
    for Neurological Studies at Sarasota Memorial
    HospitalThe number is 941-555-5554
    Kamen
    EFree19 to KamenDoc
    2:19 PM
    February 10
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    Kamen: Thanks for the referralCenter for
    Neurological Studies sounds pretty damned serious!
    But I will make the appointment very soon
    Edgar
    KamenDoc to EFree19
    4:55 PM
    February 10
    Soon should be soon enoughAs long as you're not
    having seizures
    Kamen
    He had punctuated "as long as you're not having
    seizures" with one of those handy e-mail emoticons,
    this one a round laughing face with a mouthful of
    teethHaving seen Wireman doing a pogo in the
    shadowy back seat of the rented van with his eyes
    pointing in different directions, I didn't feel
    like laughing myselfBut I knew that, short of
    chains and a tractor hitch, I wouldn't be getting
    Wireman examined much before March fifteenth,
    353
    unless he pitched a grand mal bitchAnd of course,
    Wireman wasn't Xander Kamen's problemI wasn't
    either, strictly speaking, and I was touched that
    he was still botheringOn impulse I clicked the
    REPLY button and typed:
    EFree19 to KamenDoc
    5:05 PM
    February 10
    Kamen: No seizures
    I took some of my stuff to a Sarasota gallery, and
    one of the guys who owns the place had a look at
    itI think he might offer me a s
    Sunday, January 2nd, 2011
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    “We were both stunned; I was half smotheredI knew I had to do something right away, but I
    couldn't remember what it wasThe beast started to roll, dazedThe fresh air cleared my head,
    and I remembered Harness Light
    “Protecting him from the cold as well as I could in the soft side of my hands, I moved him from
    my egg tiffany diamond pocket into the claw beast's neck
    “The beast got to its feet and bucked againI'd let go of my hold to insert
    Harness Light, you seeThe claw beast was infuriatedThe wound on its head wasn't nearly
    enough to kill it–just annoy it
    “The snow had settled enough that I was in plain sight, especially as I was painted with the
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    swung toward meI thought that was it, and I was comforted a little that at least I would
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    “And then the pincers hit the snow beside meI couldn't believe it had missed! I stared up at
    the huge, hideous face, and I almost had louis vuitton discount to… well, not laughBut that was
    the feelingBecause that ugly face was torn with confusion and surprise and chagrinNo claw
    beast had ever worn such an expression before
    “It had taken Harness Light a few minutes to bind himself to the claw beast–it was such a big
    area, he really had to extend himselfBut then he was in new louis vuitton controlHe was confused and slow–he
    didn't have much of a brain to work with, but it was enough that he knew I was his friend
    “I had to ride him to the crystal city–to hold the wound closed on his neck until we could reach
    a HealerThat caused quite a stirFor a while they called me Rides the BeastI
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    Saturday, January 1st, 2011
    2:42 pm
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    He squints in the gloom, traces the tension of the brakes along the connecting rod, pushes the metal pad against the metal of the wheelAfter a search, he finds a loose nut where gucci boston bag the connecting wire fails to bind, and he tightens it
    That's a smart man invented that, he says to himselfHe is about to put the bike away when he decides to take it apartAh'm gonna learn all the little doodads in that brake
    An hour later, after he has stripped it and reassembled it, he grins happilyThey ain't nothin' like a piece of machineryHe feels a deep content as he traces in his mind the gucci horsebit hobo wires and nuts and levers that make up the hand brake
    All that machinery is simple, you jus' got to work it out for yourselfHe whistles a little, pleased with himselfAh bet in a coupla years they won't be anythin' Ah cain't fix
    But in a couple of years he is working in a hotelThe bicycle shop shuts down in the depression, and the only job he can get is as a bellhop working for tips in the rolex watches for women fifty-room hotel at the end of the main streetHe makes a little money and there are always women and liquor to be hadOn night duty there seldom is a time when he can't find a girl in the hotel to spend a few hours with
    One of his buddies has an old Ford, and on weekends when he's off he goes tearing around the sandy roads with him, a gallon jug between them rattling over the loose rubber pads near the gucci men's watch gear shiftSometimes they take a couple of girls with them, and many Sundays they wake up in a strange room, not knowing what happened
    One Sunday he wakes up married(Turning in bed drowsily, slipping his arm about the round belly beside himThe sheets are over his head and he looks at the warm skin and the deep black hair of the triangleHe places his finger in her navelHe is trying to remember her chanel purses name
    Friday, December 31st, 2010
    2:42 pm
    @@@@@He was in his office with the door ajar, his
    @@@@@He was in his office with the door ajar, his back to herShe
    tiptoed across the room and tapped gently on the door frame with the
    tips of her fingers"May I come in?" she whispered"I thought
    you'd gone back to bed," said RhettHe sounded very tiredShe
    remembered that he'd been up all night guarding the house
    She wished she could cradle his head against her heart and stroke his
    tiredness away"There wasn't much point to going to sleep, there'll
    be roosters crowing like crazy as soon as the sun's up
    She put one foot tentatively across the doorsill"Is it all right if
    I sit in here? There's not such a reek in your office
    "Come in," Rhett said without looking at herScarlett moved quietly
    to
    a chair just inside the officeOver Rhett's shoulder she could see the
    window becoming more distinctI wonder what he's looking for so
    hard
    Are those Crackers outside again? Or Clinch Dawkins? A cock crowed,
    and her whole body jerkedThen the first weak rays of red dawn light
    touched the scene outside the windowThe jagged tumbled brick
    ruins
    of Dunmore Landing's house were dramatically lit, red against the dark
    sky behind themIt looked as if they were still
    smolderingRhett was watching the death throes of hishome"Don't
    look, Rhett," she begged, "don't lookIt will only break your
    heart
    "I should have been here, I might have stopped them Rhett's voice
    was
    slow, distant, as if he didn't know that he was speakingThere must have been hundreds of themThey would
    have
    shot you and burned everything anyhow!"
    "They didn't shoot Julia Ashley," said Rhett
    Thursday, December 30th, 2010
    2:34 pm
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    @@@@@Again obviously false
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    328
    “Obviously not,” corrected BourneIt’s legitimate down to their religious
    helmets, and it’s also a usable drop
    “Fascinating,” mused Krupkin“So much of the Jackal’s various fa?ades is tied to the ChurchA
    brilliant if overdone modus operandiIt’s said that he once studied for the priesthood
    “Then the Church is one up on you,” said Alex, angling his head in a humorously mocking
    rebuke“They threw him out before you did
    “I never underestimate the Vatican,” laughed Dimitri“It ultimately proved that our mad Joseph
    Stalin misunderstood priorities when he asked how many battalions the Pope hadHis Holiness
    doesn’t need them; he achieves more than Stalin ever did with all his purgesPower goes to the one
    who instills the greatest fear, not so, Aleksei? All the princes of this earth use it with brutal
    effectivenessAnd it all revolves around death—the fear of it, before and afterWhen will we grow
    up and tell them all to go to the devil?”
    “Death,” whispered Jason, frowning“Death on the Rivoli, at the Meurice, the Magdalen Sisters
    my God, I completely forgot! Dominique Lavier! She was at the Meurice—she may still be
    thereShe said she’d work with me!”
    “Why would she?” asked Krupkin sharply
    “Because Carlos killed her sister and she had no choice but to join him or be killed herself
    Bourne turned to the console“I need the telephone number of the Meurice—”
    “Four two six zero, three eight six zero,” offered Krupkin as Jason grabbed a pencil and wrote
    down the numbers on Alex’s notepad“A lovely place, once known as the hotel of kingsI
    especially like the grill
    Bourne touched the buttons, holding up his hand for quietRemembering, he asked for Madame
    Brielle’s room, the name they had agreed upon, and when the hotel operator said “Mais oui,” he
    nodded rapidly in relief to Alex and Dimitri Kru
    Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
    2:34 pm
    @@@@@I had even wondered, usually lying in bed
    @@@@@I had even wondered, usually
    lying in bed and listening to the shells whisper,
    if my accident had really been an accidentOf
    course it had been, must have been, but it was
    still easy to see similarities between mine and
    Julia Wireman'sI got the crane; she got the
    Public Works truckBut of course there are people
    - functioning human beings in most respects - who
    will tell you they've seen the face of Christ on a
    taco
    "Well," he said, "if you expect another long story,
    you can forget itIt takes a lot to story me out,
    but for the time being, the well's almost dry He
    looked at Elizabeth moodilyAnd perhaps with a
    456
    shade of envy"I didn't sleep very well last
    night
    "Short version, thenHis febrile good cheer had
    disappeared like the foam on top of a glass of
    beerHis big shoulders were slumped forward,
    giving his chest a caved-in look
    "After Jack Fineham 'furloughed' me, I decided
    Tampa was reasonably close to Disney WorldOnly
    when I got there, I was bored titless
    "Sure you were," I said
    "I also felt that some atonement was in orderI
    didn't want to go to Darfur or to New Orleans and
    work storefront pro bono, although that crossed my
    mindI felt like maybe the little balls with the
    lottery numbers on them were still bouncing
    somewhere and one more was waiting to go up the
    pipeA cold finger touched the base of
    my neck
    "Sí, senor, I know you doI was waiting to do
    good, hoping to balance the books againBecause I
    felt they needed balancingAnd one day I saw an
    457
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    Monday, December 27th, 2010
    2:38 pm
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    Misery swept through meI didn't want to say goodbye to Ian, and now I would have toI would be wrong to sneak out in the night like a thief and leave all my
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    “C'mon,” Ian snarled, dragging me away from them without a backward glance
    “Ian –”
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    idea what to say
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    And then we jerked to a stopJared was blocking the exit
    “Have you lost your mind, Ian?” he asked, shocked and outraged“What are you doing to her?”
    “Did you know about this?” Ian shouted back, shoving me toward Jared and chanel purses shaking me at
    him
    “You're going to hurt her!”
    “Do you know what she's planning?” Ian roared
    Jared stared at Ian, his face suddenly closed off
    That was answer enough for Ian
    Ian's fist struck Jared so fast that I missed the blow–I just felt the lurch in his body and saw
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    Sunday, December 26th, 2010
    2:42 pm
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    Saturday, December 25th, 2010
    2:42 pm
    @@@@@"Often you remind me of her,"
    @@@@@"Often you remind me of her," Eleanor
    said,
    and Scarlett was suddenly interested again"How so, Miss Eleanor?"
    "Your eyes are shaped the same, that little upward tilt at the corner
    of themAnd you have the same intensity, you fairly vibrate with
    it
    Both of you strike me as in some way more fully alive than most
    peopleShe felt very satisfiedEleanor Butler
    looked at her fondly"Now I believe I'll have my nap," she saidShe
    thought she'd handled that conversation very wellShe'd said nothing
    untrue, but she'd managed to avoid saying too muchShe certainly
    didn't want her son's wife to know that her grandmother had had
    many
    lovers and that dozens of duels had been fought over herNo telling
    what kind of ideas that might put in Scarlett's head
    Eleanor was profoundly disturbed by the obvious trouble between her
    son
    and his wifeIt was not something she could ask Rhett aboutIf he
    wanted her to know, he would have told herAnd Scarlett's reaction
    to
    her hint about the unpleasant situation with the Courtney man made it
    clear that she didn't want to confide her feelings either
    Butler closed her eyes and tried to rest
    When all was said and done, there was nothing she could do except
    hope
    for the bestRhett was a grown man and Scarlett a grown woman
    Even though, in her opinion, they were behaving like undisciplined
    childrenScarlett was trying to rest, tooShe was in the card room,
    telescope at handThere had been no sight of Tommy Cooper's
    sailboat
    when she lookedRhett must have taken him up the river instead of
    into
    the harborMaybe she shouldn't even look for them
    When she'd looked through the opera glasses at the races, she'd lost
    faith in Anne, she was still hurting fro
    Friday, December 24th, 2010
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    “The thought occurred to me,” said the Soviet consul general of New York, “but then, there are
    always options, aren’t there? Naturally, there’s only one course of action for usLike much of
    the continent, we were taken in by ruthless capitalist privateersLambs led to the slaughter on the
    altars of greed as this American cartel of financial plunderers cornered markets, selling inferior
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    “You son of a bitch!” exploded Ogilvie“You—all of you—cooperated every step of the way
    You brokered millions for us out of the bloc countries, rerouted, renamed—Christ, repainted—
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    about ports in the Baltic!”
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    “What?” cried the attorney as panic spread across his face
    “Well, you certainly can’t stay here an hour longer than absolutely necessaryRead those words,
    MrYou’re in the last stages of electronic surveillance before being picked up by the
    authorities
    “Oh, my God—”
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    the problems they kelly hermes currently have with the Mainland’s markets and the Sino-British Treaty of ’97,
    they’d probably frown on your indictmentsI’d say Switzerland’s out; the reciprocal laws are so
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    “Stop it!” yelled Ogilvie
    “Then again you could turn state’s evidence; there’s so much to unravelThey might even take,
    say, ten years off your thirty-year sentence
    “Goddamn it, I’ll kill you!”
    The bedroom door suddenly opened as a prada clutch consulate guard appeared, his hand menacingly under
    his jacketThe attorney had lurched to his feet; trembling helplessly, he returned to the chair and
    leaned forward, his head in his hands
    “Such behavior would not be looked upon favorably,” said Sulikov“Come, Counselor, it’s a
    time for cool heads, not emotional outbursts
    “How the hell can you say that?” asked Ogilvie, a catch in his voice, a prelude to tears
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    Thursday, December 23rd, 2010
    2:34 pm
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    couldn't be easy for a man of Kamen's size to
    travel on public transportand now that I
    really considered the matter, I guessed it would
    be impossible for him to sit down in one of those
    paltry airplane bathrooms at allTo stand up and
    take a leak? MaybeHe
    simply wouldn't fit
    "Anyway, Wireman thought Mr
    Said kelly hermes bag you'd understand
    "I do," I said, and beckoned Juanita overShe
    looked too lonely standing there by herself in
    what was probably her best outfit while the
    culture vultures ebbed and flowed around herI
    gave her a hug and she smiled up at meAnd just
    as I was finally persuading her to take one of the
    glasses of champagne (my use of the word Cartier Watches Tortue pequeno
    for small made her giggle, so I assumed it wasn't
    quite right), Wireman and Kamen - the latter still
    holding the gift-box - came inKamen lit up at
    the sight of me, and that did me more good than
    597
    several rounds of applause, even with a standing O
    thrown in
    I took a champagne flute from a passing tray, cut
    through the crowd, rolex submariner price and handed it to himThen I
    slipped my arm around as much of his bulk as I
    could and gave him a hugHe hugged back hard
    enough to make my still tender ribs squall
    "Edgar, you look terrificGod is
    good, my friend
    "So are you," I said"How'd you happen to turn up
    in Sarasota? Was it Wireman?" I turned to my
    compadre of the striped umbrella"It clutch prada was, wasn't
    it? You called and asked Kamen if he'd be the
    Mystery Guest at my lecture
    Wireman shook his headI was in a
    panic, muchacho, because I could see you were
    freaking out about the gigShe said that after
    your accident you listened to DrKamen when you
    wouldn't listen to anyone elseI
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    Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010
    2:44 pm
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    Those are my deep-seated, emotional reasonsWhat are yours? If they are not strong enough, then the reality of the road ahead may be greater than your reasonsI have lost money and been set back many times, but it was the deep emotional reasons that kept me standing up and going forwardI wanted to be free by age 40, but it took me until I was 4? with many learning experiences along the way
    As I said, I wish I could say it was eas
    Sunday, December 19th, 2010
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    shoes for a new outfitWithin the hour he looked not unlike a man he had known years ago: the
    Honorable Brendan P(He had always dropped the second P for Pierre, for obvious
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    to convince dubious underlingsAt Logan’s information desk he was told that three airlines out of
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    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
    59
    now and then touching her shoulder, lovingly as well as perhaps for balance, but in the touch there
    was a volume of poetry that was theirs aloneCloser inspection revealed a sporadic welling of tears
    in his eyes that he promptly wiped away so she could not see them
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    Saturday, December 18th, 2010
    2:39 pm
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    Scarlett ignored herShe tried to ignore the discomfort and
    embarrassment of her cousins and villagers, but within a half hour of
    their arrival, she was close to tears"It goes against tradition,
    MrsO," Rosaleen Fitzpatrick murmured to her, "it's naught to do with
    youNo farmer's boot has ever crossed the threshold of a Big House
    in
    IrelandWe're a people ruled by the old ways, and we're not ready for
    change
    "But I thought the Fenians wanted to change everythingBut the change is for a return to even older
    ways than the ones that keep the boots out of a Big HouseI wish I
    could explain more clearly
    "Don't bother, MrsI've just made a mistake, that's allI
    won't do it again
    "It was the error of a generous heart
    Scarlett forced a smileBut she was bewildered and upsetWhat was
    the point of having all these Irish-decorated rooms if the Irish didn't
    feel comfortable in them?
    And why did her own cousins treat her like a stranger in her own
    house?
    After everyone left and the servants removed all traces of the party,
    Scarlett went from room to room aloneWell, I like it, she decidedIt was, she thought, a damn sight prettier than
    Dunmore Landing would ever be, or ever wasShe stood in the midst
    of
    the reflected images of the High Kings and imagined Rhett there with
    her, full of envy and admirationIt would be years from now, when
    Cat
    was grown, and he would be heartsick that he had missed seeing
    his daughter grow up to become the beautiful heiress of the home of
    the
    O'HarasScarlett ran to the stairs and up them and through the
    corridor to Cat's room
    She was sitting at her little table, carefully pouring milk into a cup
    for her big tabbyOcras was watching attentively from his
    commanding
    position in the center of the table"Sit down, Momma," Cat invited
    Scarlett lowered herself onto a small cha
    Friday, December 17th, 2010
    2:36 pm
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    The sound of the doctor's soft snoring was comforting; even if it was put on to calm me, at
    least I knew exactly where he was in the darkness
    Live or die, I figured I might as well go ahead and sleepI was dog tired, as Melanie would sayThe mattress was softer than mulberry bayswater anything I'd touched since coming hereI
    relaxed, sinking in…
    There was a low shuffling sound–it was inside the room with meMy eyes popped open, and I
    could see a shadow between the moonlit ceiling and meOutside, the doctor's snores continued
    uninterrupted
    CHAPTER 23
    Confessed
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    I think I meant to scream, but the sound got trapped in my throat, and all that came out was a
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    “Shh, it's just me,” Jamie whisperedSomething bulky and roundish rolled from his shoulders
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    moonlight
    I caught a few gasps of air, my hand clutching at my throat
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    “Sure,” I huffed, still breathless
    “Sorry,” he muttered again
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    Saturday, December 11th, 2010
    3:07 pm
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    Brown came up behind him, and gazed at the body with a troubled look"Should I have left him behind?" he askedHe tried not to consider whether he were responsible
    "Who takes care of the bodies?"
    "Graves Registration
    "Well, I'm going to find them so they can carry him away," Red said"We're supposed to stick together He stopped, and then went on angrily"Goddam, Red, you're acting awful chicken today, picking fights and then backing out of them, throwing a fit over He looked at Hennessey and didn't finish
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    Friday, December 10th, 2010
    2:45 pm
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    @@@@@Inside the plush-upholstered box, she sank into a corner and
    pulled up the woolen lap robeShe was chilled to the bone, horrified
    by what she had doneHow could she have shamed Ashley like that in
    front of everybody, when only a few nights ago she had promised
    Melanie
    that she would take care of him, protect him as Melly had always
    done?
    But what else could she have done?
    Let him throw himself into the grave? She had to stop himThe
    carriage jolted from side to side, its high wheels sinking into the
    deep ruts of clay mudScarlett nearly fell to the floorHer elbow
    hit the window frame, and a sharp pain ran up and down her armIt
    was
    only physical pain, she could stand thatIt was the other pain-the
    postponed, delayed, denied shadowy pain-that she couldn't bearNot
    yet, not here, not when she was all aloneShe had to get to Tara, she
    had toMammy would put her brown arms
    around her,
    Mammy would hold her close, cradle her head on the breast where
    she'd
    sobbed out all her childhood hurtsShe could cry in Mammy's arms,
    cry
    herself empty of pain; she could rest her head on Mammy's breast,
    rest
    her wounded heart on Mammy's love
    Mammy would hold her and love her, would share her pain and help
    her
    bear it"Hurry, Elias," said Scarlett, "hurry
    "Help me out of these wet things, Pansy," Scarlett ordered her maid
    Her face was ghostly pale, it made her green eyes look darker,
    brighter, more frighteningThe young black girl was clumsy with
    nervousnessIf you make me miss my train, take
    a strap to y) She couldn't do it, Pansy knew she couldn't do it
    The slavery days were over, Miss Scarlett didn't own her, she could
    quit any time she wanted toBut the desperate, feverish glint in
    Scarlett's green eyes made Pansy doubt her own knowledge
    Scarlett looked capable of anything"Pack the black wool merino, it's
    going to be colder," said ScarlettShe stared at the open wardrobe
    Black wool, black silk, black cotton, black twill, black vel
    Tuesday, December 7th, 2010
    2:39 pm
    @@@@@ “I do and I’m not trying to be funnyThe
    @@@@@
    “I do and I’m not trying to be funnyThe body, not the headI’ll be the judge of the head
    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
    159
    “Is he a native?” asked the doctor, looking at the owner of Tranquility Inn“A white but older
    Ishmael? I’ll tell you he’s not a physician
    “Answer him, pleaseThe bullet passed through the left side of your neck, missing by millimeters several
    vital spots that would certainly have rendered you voiceless and probably deadI’ve bathed the
    wound and sutured itYou’ll have difficulty moving your head for a while, but that’s only a
    superficial opinion of the damage
    “In short words, I’ve got a very stiff neck, but if I can walk
    “In shorter words, that’s about it
    “It was the flare that did it, after all,” said Jason softly, carefully moving his neck back over the
    pillow“It blinded him just enoughJacques leaned over the bedLet’s see how well I walk—symptomatically, that is Bourne slid off the bed,
    swinging his legs cautiously to the floor, shaking his head at his brother-in-law, who started to help
    himThis has got to be me on me He stood up, the inhibiting bandage around
    his throat progressively becoming more uncomfortableHe stepped forward, pained by the bruises
    on his thighs, but they were bruises—they were minorA hot bath would reduce the pain, and
    medication, extra-strength aspirin and liniment, would permit more normal mobilityIt was the
    goddamned dressing around his neck; it not only choked him but forced him to move his shoulders
    in order to look in any directionStill, he considered, he was far less incapacitated than he might
    have been—for a man of his age“Can we loosen this necklace, Doctor? It’s strangling meYou don’t want to risk rupturing those sutures
    “What about an Ace bandage? It gi
    Monday, December 6th, 2010
    2:57 pm
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    once I was around the corner of the house, the
    water's edge was less than two dozen steps away
    That was easy if I went slowThe surge was mild,
    the incoming wavelets only inches highIt was
    hard to imagine this water whipped into a
    93
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    Later, Wireman would tell me God always punishes
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    That was one of his better ones
    I turned to go back to the house, then paused
    There was just enough light to see a deep carpet
    of shells - a drift of shells - under the jutting
    Florida roomAt high tide, I realized, the front
    half of my new house would be almost like the
    foredeck of a shipI remembered Jack saying I'd
    get plenty of warning if the Gulf of Mexico
    decided to eat the place, that I'd hear it
    groaningHe was probably omega ladies watch rightbut then, I was
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    site when a heavy piece of equipment was backing
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    I limped back to where my crutch leaned against
    the side of the house and took the short plank
    walk around to the doorI thought about the
    shower and took a bath instead, going in and
    coming out in the careful sidesaddle way Kathi
    Green had shown me in my other life, both of us
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    but even they were fading
    Dried off and with my teeth brushed, I crutched
    into the master bedroom and surveyed the king, now
    divested of decorative pillows"Houston," I said,
    "we have bed
    "Roger, Freemantle," I replied
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    My leg still felt pretty good, even after my
    expedition to the water, but there was a knot in
    my lower back and another at the base of my neckNo, sleep was out of the question, but
    I turned off the lamp anyway
    I'd lie there until my back and neck felt better,
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    Saturday, December 4th, 2010
    2:34 pm
    @@@@@“Even if we all want you here, you don't
    @@@@@“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 me“Everyone eats
    themselves sick–it's a tradition
    “You need the protein,” Trudy added“We were on cave rations too longI'm surprised no
    one's in worse shape
    I ate my protein while Jamie watched with hawk-like attention as each bite traveled from the
    tray to my mouthI ate it all to please him, though it made my stomach ache to eat so
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