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    Monday, January 3rd, 2011
    2:36 am
    @@@@@ Martinez felt like weepingThe longer he
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    Martinez felt like weepingThe longer he remained here the more dangerous it would becomeAnd besides, if he had made a mistake like that, how many others were there he might have made? He was close to hysteria againHe had to go back and yetHe was sergeant, United States sergeant
    Without this sense of loyalty he would have broken up months beforeMartinez wiped his face and started forwardThe weird idea of continuing until he had traversed the pass and the Japanese rear, scouted the defenses of Botoi Bay, came to himFor a moment his mind held a montage of glory; Martinez being decorated, Martinez standing before the General, Martinez's picture in the Mexican newspaper in San Antonio, but it slipped away, was rejected before the obvious impossibilities of itHe had no rations, no water, not even a knife any longer
    At that moment in the grove to his left he saw a long bar of moonlight behind a bush which projected from the groveHe dropped to one knee, examined it, and then heard the delicate sound of a man flooping some spittle to the groundThere was another Japanese bivouacThe shadow along the cliff wall was very deep here, and if he was cautious they would never spy himBut this time his legs were too weak, his will too flaccidHe couldn't endure another few minutes like the ones next to the machine gunner
    But he should go onMartinez rubbed his nose like a child before insuperable difficultiesAll the fatigue of the past two days, the nervous strain of this night, were bothering him nowGoddam, how far he want me go? he thought resentfullyHe turned around, edged back into the grove from which he had come, and began to descend the passHe was conscious now of the time that had elapsed since he had stabbed the sentry, and it made him increasingly anxiousThere was a chance, if the guard was discovered, that they would send patrols out, but it was not likely at night, and besides he was lost if the guard had been discoveredHe made virtually no attempt at concealment in the stretches of the pass where he had found no Japanese beforeThe only important thing was to get back
    2:30 am
    @@@@@ He graduates from welding school, gets a
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    He graduates from welding school, gets a job for twenty-five dollars, and they get marriedThe wedding presents come to almost four hundred dollars, enough for a bedroom set from a department store, and a couch and two chairs for the living roomThey extend their furniture with a few pictures, an inaccurate calendar scene of cows in a pasture at sunset, a cheap reproduction of "The Blue Door" and a Maxfield Parrish from an advertisementOn an end table, Natalie puts their wedding pictures, joined like book covers in a double frameHis mother gives them a whatnot and a collection of tiny painted cups and saucers with plump nude angels chasing around the circumferenceThey settle down in their three-room flat, and are very happy, very warm and absorbed in each otherBy the end of the first year he is making thirty-five a week, and they are moving through the regular ordained orbit of friends and relativesJoey becomes adept at bridgeTheir marital storms are infrequent and quickly lost, the memories of them buried in the avalanche of pleasant and monotonous trivia that makes up their life
    Once or twice there is some tension between themJoey, they decide, is very virile and the knowledge that she wants him less often than he needs her is bitter and sometimes uglyThis is not to say that their matings always fail or that they even talk or brood about it a good dealBut still he is a little balked at timesHe cannot understand her unpredictable coldness; during their engagement she had been so passionate in her petting
    After the boy is born there are other concernsHe is making forty dollars a week, and working as a soda jerk in the corner drug store on weekendsHe is tired, often worried; her delivery is a Caesarean, and they go into debt to pay the doctorHer scar troubles him; despite himself he looks at it with distaste and she notices thatShe is completely involved with the child, content to stay at home for week after weekIn the long evenings, he wants her very often and contains himself, sleeping irritablyOne night their coupling ends in a quarrel
    He has a bad habit in the middleAlways, despite his injunctions, he must ask, are you warm? Her smile is so noncommittal; he is vaguely angered
    A little, she will say
    He slows himself, rests his head on her shoulder, relaxing, breathing de
    Sunday, January 2nd, 2011
    2:36 am
    @@@@@Green ribbons fluttered from flowering
    @@@@@Green ribbons fluttered from flowering tree
    branches, shamrocks made of paper or of silk were for sale from boxes
    carried by enterprising men, women, and children from square to
    square
    Broughton Street was bedecked with green bunting in shop windows,
    and
    ropes of fresh green vines strung between lampposts to canopy the
    parade route"Parade?!" Scarlett exclaimed when she was toldShe
    touched the green silk ribbon rosettes Kathleen had pinned in her
    hair
    "Are we finished? Do I look all right? Is it time to go?" It was
    timeFirst early Mass, and then a celebration all day and into the
    night"Jamie tells me there'll be fireworks starring the sky over the
    park until you're fair giddy from the splendor of it all," Kathleen
    saidHer face and eyes were shining with excitementScarlett's
    green eyes were suddenly calculating"I'll bet you don't have parades
    and fireworks in your village, KathleenYou'll be sorry if you don't
    stay in Savannah
    The girl smiled radiantly"I'll remember it forever and tell the tale
    by all the hearths of all the housesOnce home, it will be a grand
    thing to have seen America
    There was no budging the silly girlBroughton Street was lined with
    people, all of them sporting greenScarlett laughed aloud when she
    saw one familyWith all those scrubbed-up children wearing green
    bows
    or scarves or feathers in their hats, they were just like the
    O'Haras
    Except that they were all black"Didn't I tell you everyone is Irish
    today?" Jamie said with a grin"Even the
    loo-las are wearing the green," she said, jerking her head toward a
    pair nearbyScarlett craned her neck to seeGood grief! It was her
    grandfather's stuffy lawyer and a boy who must be his sonBoth of
    them
    were wearing green cravatsShe looked curiously up and down the
    street at the smiling people, searching for other familiar faces
    2:30 am
    @@@@@"I'm going to Savannah It's my grandfather's
    @@@@@"I'm going to Savannah
    It's my grandfather's birthday She'd meet her aunts at the train
    depotThe train left for Savannah at ten of twelveAnd tomorrow
    she'd find the Mother Superior and make her talk to the BishopNo
    point in going home to Atlanta without the deed to Tara in her hand
    "I don't want that nasty old dress," she said to Pansy"Get out the
    ones I brought when I came hereI'll wear what I likeI'm over
    being so eager to please * "I wondered what all the fuss was about,"
    said RosemaryShe eyed Scarlett's fashionable clothes with
    curiosity
    "Are you going someplace, too? Mama said you probably would sleep
    all
    day
    "Where is Miss Eleanor? I want to tell her goodbye
    "She's already left for churchWhy don't you write her a note? Or I
    can give her a message) Scarlett looked at the clockShe hadn't
    much timeThe hackney was waiting outsideShe dashed into the
    library and grabbed paper and penWhat should she say? Your
    carriage
    is waiting, Missus Rhett," said ManigoScarlett scrawled a few
    sentences, saying that she was going to her grandfather's birthday and
    was sorry to miss seeing Eleanor before she leftRhett will plain
    everythisg, she added"Miss Scarlett-" called Pansy
    nervouslyScarlett folded the note and sealed
    Saturday, January 1st, 2011
    2:38 am
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    Dolphins for lack of a better comparison, though they resembled dragonflies more than marine
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    I made my last trip inside, searching for anything forgottenThe apartment looked emptyThere
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    The phone rang as I was stepping out the door, and I turned back to get it, but I was too late
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    2:30 am
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    “That’s good marketing
    “Did you really assassinate Teagarten in Brussels?”
    “Get off my case—”
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    “Krupkin should have left it to me
    “Left what?”
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    Friday, December 31st, 2010
    2:38 am
    @@@@@ I thought Perse was now afraid of me and
    @@@@@
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    my near-death experience (still suicidal, in fact),
    I might have been an asset instead of a problem
    Because in spite of all his big talk, that Edgar
    Freemantle really hadn't had another life; that
    Edgar had just switched the backdrop of his
    invalid's existence from pines to palmsBut once
    I had friends againsaw what was all around me
    and reached out to it
    Then I'd become dangerousI don't know exactly
    what she had in mind - other than regaining her
    place in the world, that is - but she must have
    thought that when it came to mischief-making, the
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    potential for a talented one-armed artist was
    greatI could have sent poison paintings all over
    the globe, by God! But now I had turned in her
    hand, just as Libbit hadNow I was something
    first to be stopped, then discarded
    "You're a little late for that, bitch," I
    whispered
    So why did I still smell gas?
    The paintings - especially the most dangerous ones,
    the Girl and Ship series - were safely under lock
    and key, and off-island, just as Elizabeth had
    wishedAccording to Pam, nobody in our circle of
    family and friends had taken sketches except for
    Bozie, Tom, and Xander KamenIt was too late for
    Tom and Kamen, and I'd have given a great deal to
    change that, but Bozie had promised to burn his,
    so that was all rightEven Jack was covered,
    because he'd owned up to his little act of
    thieveryIt had been smart of Wireman to ask him,
    I thoughtI was only surprised he hadn't asked if
    I'd given Jack some artwork myse -
    My breath turned to glass in my throatNow I knew
    what I'd forgottenNow, in this deep crease of
    the night with the wind roaring outsideI'd been
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    so fixated on the goddam show that I'd never
    thought much about who I might have given work to
    before the show
    Can I have it?
    My memory, still apt to be so balky, sometimes
    surprised me with bursts of Technicolor brillianceI saw Ilse standing barefoot
    in Little Pink, dressed in shorts and a shell top
    She was standing by my easelI had to ask her to
    move so I could see the picture she was so taken
    withThe picture I didn't even remember doing
    Can I have it?
    When she stood aside, I saw a little girl in a
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    2:30 am
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    679
    The trouble after the treasure all had to do with
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    givenIt's part of the standard equipmentNor
    are children, even the talented ones (especially
    the talented ones), in full possession of their
    facultiesTheir reason still sleeps, and the
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    Here's a picture I never louis vuitton men painted:
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    is red, with an L on the front, and the other is
    blue, with a T The girls are holding hands as
    they run along the path that leads to Shade Beach
    They call it that because for most of the day it's
    in the shadow of Hag's RockThere are tear-tracks
    on their pale round faces, but they will soon be
    gone because by now they are too terrorized to cry
    If you can believe this, you can see the rest
    A giant crow flies slowly past them, chanel jewelry upside-down,
    its wings outstretchedIt speaks to them in their
    Daddy's voice
    Lo-Lo falls and cuts her knees on the shells
    Tessie pulls her to her feetIt
    isn't the upside-down talking crow they are afraid
    680
    of, nor the way the sky sometimes lenses from blue
    to a sunset red before going back to blue; it is
    the thing behind them
    Even with its fangs it still looks a little like
    one of the funny frogs Libbit used to draw, but
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    to cast a shadowReal enough to stink and shake
    the ground each time it jumpsThey have been
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    They burst onto the beach gasping and out of
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    Except maybe there is, because the boat is back
    681
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    frequently in the last few weeksLibbit says the
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    Thursday, December 30th, 2010
    2:36 am
    @@@@@ “I thoroughly understand you,” cried
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    “I thoroughly understand you,” cried MrsNorris, “you are everything
    that is generous and considerate, and I am sure we shall never
    disagree on this pointWhatever I can do, as you well know, I am
    always ready enough to do for the good of those I love; and, though I
    could never feel for this little girl the hundredth part of the regard I
    bear your own dear children, nor consider her, in any respect, so much
    my own, I should hate myself if I were capable of neglecting herIs
    not she a sister’s child? and could I bear to see her want while I had a
    bit of bread to give her? My dear Sir Thomas, with all my faults I have
    a warm heart; and, poor as I am, would rather deny myself the necessaries
    of life than do an ungenerous thingSo, if you are not against it,
    I will write to my poor sister tomorrow, and make the proposal; and,
    as soon as matters are settled, I will engage to get the child to Mansfield;
    you shall have no trouble about itMy own trouble, you know, I never
    regardI will send Nanny to London on purpose, and she may have a
    bed at her cousin the saddler’s, and the child be appointed to meet her
    thereThey may easily get her from Portsmouth to town by the coach,
    under the care of any creditable person that may chance to be going
    I dare say there is always some reputable tradesman’s wife or other
    going up
    Except to the attack on Nanny’s cousin, Sir Thomas no longer
    made any objection, and a more respectable, though less economical
    rendezvous being accordingly substituted, everything was considered
    as settled, and the pleasures of so benevolent a scheme were
    already enjoyedThe division of gratifying sensations ought not, in
    strict justice, to have been equal; for Sir Thomas was fully resolved
    to be the real and consistent patron of the selected child, and Mrs
    Norris had not the least intention of being at any expense whatever
    in her maintenanceAs far as walking, talking, and contriving
    reached, she was thoroughly benevolent, and nobody knew better
    8
    Mansfield Park
    how to dictate liberality to others; but her love of money was equal
    to her love of directing, and she knew quite as well how to save her
    own as to spend that of her friendsHaving married on a narrower
    income than she had been used to look forward to, she had, from
    the first, fancied a very strict line of economy necessary; and what
    was begun as a matter of prudence, soon grew into a matter of choice,
    as an object of that needful solicitude which there were no children
    to supplyHad there been a family to provide for, MrsNorris might
    never have saved her money; but having no care of that kind, there
    was nothing to impede her frugality, or lessen the comfort of making
    a yearly addition to an income which they had never lived up to
    Under this infatuating principle, counteracted by no real affection
    for her sister, it was impossible for her to aim at more than the
    credit of projecting and arranging so expensive a charity; though
    perhaps she might so little know herself as to walk home to the
    Parsonage, after this conversation, in the happy belief of being the
    most liberal-minded sister and aunt in the world
    When the subject was brought forward again, her views were more
    fully explained; and, in reply to Lady Bertram’s calm inquiry of
    “Where shall the child come to first, sister, to you or to us?” Sir
    Thomas heard with some surprise that it would be totally out of
    MrsNorris’s power to take any share in the personal charge of her
    He had been considering her as a particularly welcome addition at
    the Parsonage, as a desirable companion to an aunt who had no
    children of her own; but he found himself wholly mistaken
    Norris was sorry to say that the little girl’s staying with them, at least
    as things then were, was quite out of the questionNorris’s
    indifferent state of health made it an impossibility: he could no
    more bear the noise of a child than he could fly; if, indeed, he should
    ever get well of his gouty complaints, it would be a different matter:
    she should then be glad to take her turn, and think nothing of the
    inconvenience; but just now, poor MrNorris took up every moment
    of her time, and the very mention of such a thing she was sure
    would distract him
    “Then she had better come to us,” said Lady Bertram, with the
    utmost composureAfter a short pause Sir Thomas added with dignity,
    “Yes, let her home be in this hou
    2:30 am
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    Mike and I picked up our things from the store and waved goodbye to MrsWe went back to the park, to the same picnic bench, and spent several more hours thinking and talking
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    Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
    2:36 am
    @@@@@"Whadeya say, scout?" "Oh, nothing," he
    @@@@@"Whadeya say, scout?"
    "Oh, nothing," he said in a low voiceHe never knew what to answer to "Whadeya say?" and it always made him uneasy
    "They ought to give ya the day off," Polack said He had been a poor scout the night before, he had done everything wrongIf he hadn't killed the Jap -- that was the keystone of all his mistakesHe could not have named them, but he was convinced that he had made many mistakes
    "Nothin' happened, huh?" Gallagher asked
    Martinez shrugged, saw Polack looking at the dried blood on his handIt would look like dirt, but he found himself saying, "Japs in the pass, I kill one
    "Huh?" Polack said, "what's the score? That looey told us the pass was empty
    Martinez shrugged againHe argue with Croft, say pass empty, after I come back, see JapsCroft tell him Martinez good man, know what he see but Looey he don't want to listen, stubborn damn fool"Ya had to knock off a Jap and he didn't believe it?"
    Martinez nodded, believing this was the truth now"I listen them talk, man damn fool, I don't say nothing, Croft tell him The entire sequence was confused in his mindHe could not have sworn to it, but at that moment he felt he remembered Croft and Hearn arguing, Hearn saying that they must go through the pass and Croft disagreeing"Croft tell me keep my mouth shut when he talk to Hearn, know Hearn damn fool
    Gallagher shook his head unbelievingly"What a dumb stubborn fug that looey was
    "Yeah, he got it," Polack saidThis was all mixed upIf a guy is told there's Japs in the pass, and he decides just like that there ain't anyThat was a little bit too dumbHe felt an annoying frustration as if there were something under his finger, something he could point to
    2:28 am
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    He could not have picked a worse time to antagonize Croft
    Croft was sweating from the labor of making the stretcher; when he finished, all the difficulties of the patrol were nagging at him againAnd deep within him his rage was alive again, flaringEverything was wrong, and Roth played with a bird, while nearly half the platoon stood about watching
    His anger was too vivid for him to thinkHe strode across the hollow, and stopped before the group around Roth
    "Jus' what the hell you men think you're doin'?" he asked in a low strained voice
    They all looked up, instantly wary"Nothin'," one of them muttered
    "Roth!"
    "Yes, Sergeant?" His voice quavered
    Roth passed it to him, and Croft held it for a momentHe could feel the bird's heart beating like a pulse against his palmIts tiny eyes darted about frantically, and Croft's anger worked into his fingertipsIt would be the simplest thing to crush it in his hand; it was no bigger than a stone and yet it was ali
    Monday, December 27th, 2010
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    aloneUncle Henry, of all people, should have better sense than to
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    conclusionsHe knows all about building the houses on the edge of
    townScarlett's feelings were deeply woundedUncle Henry Hamilton
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    his accusations cut deepShe scanned the few remaining lines quickly
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    Rhett
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    season now behind her
    She gave the mental equivalent of a snort at that, and then she was back to businesset's get going! It will be dark soon
    With a sigh, I pulled the largest shrink-wrapped flat of water bottles from the shelfIt nearly hit
    the floor before I caught it against a lower shelf edgeMy arms felt as though they'd popped
    halfway out of their sockets
    “You're kidding me!” I exclaimed aloud
    Shut up!
    “Excuse me?” a short, stooped man, the other customer, asked from the end of the aisle
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    “Would you like some help?” he offered
    “No, no,” I answered hastily“I'll just take a smaller one
    He turned back to the selection of potato chips
    No, you will not,Melanie assured me've carried heavier loads than thisYou've let us get all
    soft, Wanderer, she added in irritation
    Sorry,I responded absently, bemused by the fact that she had used my name for the first time
    I struggled with the flat of water, wondering how far I could possibly be expected to carry itI
    managed to get it to the front register, at leastWith great relief, I edged its weight onto the
    counterI put the bag on top of the water, and then added a box of granola bars, a roll of
    doughnuts, and a bag of chips from the closest display
    Water is way more important than food in the desert, and we can only carry so much –
    I'm hungry,I interrupted
    It's your back, I guess,she said grudgingly, and then she ordered,Get a map
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    Still, there was his last grenadeWhy not? Bourne removed it, pulled the pin, and threw it over
    the van into the center of the parking areaThe quilted bag chanel explosion followed and Jason got to his feet;
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    “So you opened the gates and let my executioner walk away,” yelled Jason weakly“Why didn’t
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    “I suggest you look again, Professor,” replied a breathless Benjamin as he stopped in front of
    Bourne, studying Jason’s battered face and bloodstained clothing“Old women rolex watches age has withered your
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    “What?”
    “You want gates, you’ll have gates The trainer shouted an order toward the guardhouse in
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    “Glass,” said Benjamin
    “Glass?” asked a bewildered Jason
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    like a series of gigantic waves crashing against the walls of a huge aquarium, the tunnel was being
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    "Edgar, are you sure-"
    "Tell me Pam's version had been broken and
    fragmentary, and even that was no longer clear in
    my mind - the details were obscured by an image of
    Ilse's hair floating on the surface of an
    overflowing bathtubThat might or might not be
    accurate, but it was hellishly bright, hellishly
    particular, and it had blotted out almost
    everything elseBozeman said the police found no sign of
    forced entry, so they think your daughter must
    have let her in, even though it was the middle of
    the night-"
    "Or Mary just hit buzzers until somebody else let
    her in My missing arm itched"Then she walked up to
    Illy's apartment and rang the bellLet's say that
    she pretended to be someone else
    "Edgar, are you guessing, or-"
    "Let's say she pretended to be from a gospel group
    called The Hummingbirds, and let's say she called
    through the door that something bad had happened
    to Carson Jones
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    "Only she calls him Smiley, and that's the
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    sunshiny Florida morning on Duma KeyEdgar-overmy-
    head saw moreNot everything; just enough to
    be too much
    "What happened then, Edgar?" Wireman askedHe
    spoke very softly"What do you think?"
    "Let's say that Illy opens the door, and when she
    does, she finds a woman pointing a gun at herShe
    knows this woman from somewhere, but she's been
    through one bad scare already that night, she's
    disoriented, and she can't place her - her memory
    chokesMaybe it's just as wellMary tells her to
    turn around, and when she does I began to cry again
    "Edgar, man, don't," Jack saidHe was almost
    crying himself
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    716
    Melinda had the grace to blushElizabeth offered
    the tin to Rosenblatt, who took it with a smile
    and a nodI have wondered since then - I know
    it's morbid, but yes, I've wondered - if she would
    have smoked more of it if she had known it was to
    be her last
    vi
    Even those who didn't know John Eastlake's
    surviving daughter from a hole in the wall
    understood that a Personage had come among them,
    and the tidal flow which had moved toward the
    reception area at the sound of Mary Ire's
    exuberant shout now reversed itself as I rolled
    the wheelchair into the alcove where most of the
    Sunset With pictures had been hungWireman and
    Pam walked on my left; Ilse and Jack were on my
    right, Ilse giving the wheelchair's handle on that
    side little helping taps to make sure it stayed on
    courseMelinda and Ric were behind us, Kamen, Tom
    Riley, and Bozie behind themBehind that trio
    came seemingly everyone else in the gallery
    717
    I wasn't sure there would be room to get her chair
    in between the makeshift bar set-up and the wall,
    but there was, justI started to push it down
    that narrow aisle, grateful that we'd at least be
    leaving the rest of the retinue behind us, when
    Elizabeth cried: "Stop!"
    I stopped at once"Elizabeth, are you all right?"
    "Just a minute, honey - hush
    We sat there, looking at the paintings on the wall
    After a little bit, she fetched a sigh and said,
    "Wireman, do you have a Kleenex?"
    He had a handkerchief, which he unfolded and
    handed to her
    "Come around here, Edgar," she said"Come where I
    can see you
    I managed to get around between the wheelchair and
    the bar, with the bartender bracing the table to
    make sure it didn't tip over
    "Are you able to kneel down, so we can be face to
    face?"
    I was ableMy Great Beach Walks were paying
    dividendsShe clutched her cigarette holder -
    both foolish and somehow magnificent - in one hand,
    718
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    "You read me poems because Wireman couldn'tDo
    you remember that?"
    "Yes, ma'am Of course I rememberedThose had
    been sweet interludes
    "If I were to say 'Speak, memory' to you, you'd
    think of the man - I can't recall his name - who
    wrote Lolita, wouldn't you?"
    I had no idea who she was talking about, but I
    nodded
    "But there's a poem, tooI can't remember who
    wrote it, but it begins, 'Speak, memory, that I
    may not forget the taste of roses nor the sound of
    ashes in the wind; That I may once more taste the
    green cup of the s
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    70
    Mansfield Park
    Fanny’s gratitude, when she heard the plan, was, in fact, much
    greater than her pleasureShe felt Edmund’s kindness with all, and
    more than all, the sensibility which he, unsuspicious of her fond
    attachment, could be aware of; but that he should forego any enjoyment
    on her account gave her pain, and her own satisfaction in
    seeing Sotherton would be nothing without him
    The next meeting of the two Mansfield families produced another
    alteration in the plan, and one that was admitted with general approbationGrant offered herself as companion for the day to Lady
    Bertram in lieu of her son, and DrGrant was to join them at dinner
    Lady Bertram was very well pleased to have it so, and the young ladies
    were in spirits againEven Edmund was very thankful for an arrangement
    which sale gucci handbags restored him to his share of the party; and MrsNorris
    thought it an excellent plan, and had it at her tongue’s end, and was
    on the point of proposing it, when Mrs
    Wednesday was fine, and soon after breakfast the barouche arrived,
    MrCrawford driving his sisters; and as everybody was ready,
    there was nothing to be done but for MrsGrant to alight and the
    others to take their placesThe place of all places, the envied seat,
    the post of honour, was unappropriatedTo whose happy lot was it
    to fall? While each of the Miss Bertrams were meditating how best,
    and with the most appearance of obliging the others, to secure it,
    the matter was settled by MrsGrant’s saying, as she stepped from
    the carriage, “As there are five of you, it will be better that one should
    sit with Henry; and as you were omega moon watch saying lately that you wished you
    could drive, Julia, I think this will be a good opportunity for you to
    take a lesson
    Happy Julia! Unhappy Maria! The former was on the barouchebox
    in a moment, the latter took her seat within, in gloom and
    mortification; and the carriage drove off amid the good wishes of
    the two remaining ladies, and the barking of Pug in his mistress’s
    arms
    Their road was through a pleasant country; and Fanny, whose
    rides had never been extensive, was soon beyond her knowledge,
    and was very happy in observing all that was new, and admiring all
    that was prettyShe was not often invited to join in the conversation
    of the others, nor did she desire itHer own thoughts and
    71
    Jane Austen
    reflections were habitually her best companions; and, in observing
    the appearance of bags dolce and gabbana the country, the bearings of the roads, the difference
    of soil, the state of the harvest, the cottages, the cattle, the
    children, she found entertainment that could only have been heightened
    by having Edmund to speak to of what she feltThat was the
    only point of resemblance between her and the lady who sat by her:
    in everything but a value for Edmund, Miss Crawford was very
    unlike herShe had none of Fanny’s delicacy of taste, of mind, of
    feeling; she saw Nature, inanimate Nature, with little observation;
    her attention was all for men and women, her talents for the light
    and livelyIn looking back after Edmund, however, when there was
    any stretch of road behind them, or when he gained on them in
    ascending a considerable hill, they were united, and a “there he is”
    broke at the same prada clutch moment from them both, more than once
    For the first seven miles Miss Bertram had very little real comfort:
    her prospect always ended in MrCrawford and her sister sitting
    side by side, full of conversation and merriment; and to see only his
    expressive profile as he turned with a smile to Julia, or to catch the
    laugh of the other, was a perpetual source of irritation, which her
    own sense of propriety could but just smooth overWhen Julia looked
    back, it was with a countenance of delight, and whenever she spoke
    to them, it was in the highest spirits: “her view of the country was
    charming, she wished they could all see it,” etc but her only offer
    of exchange was addressed to Miss Crawford, as they gained the
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    CHAPTER SEVEN
    Lesson Six:Work to Learn - Don't Work for Money

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