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    Monday, January 3rd, 2011
    8:14 am
    @@@@@ At least that loosened his hold enough that
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    At least that loosened his hold enough that I could make one more moveIt had worked before,
    so I tried it againInstead of trying to free myself, I twisted in and wrapped my legs around his
    waist, locking the good ankle around the bad, trying to ignore the pain so that I could get a
    good hold there
    “Getoff me, you –” He fought to knock me loose, and I jerked one of my wrists freeI wrapped
    that arm around his neck and grabbed his thick hairIf I was going into the black river, so was
    he
    Kyle hissed and stopped prying at my leg long enough to punch my side
    I gasped in pain but got my other hand into his hair
    He wrapped both arms around me, as if we were embracing rather than locked in a killing
    struggleThen he grabbed my waist from both sides and heaved with all his strength against my
    hold
    His hair started to come out in my hands, but he just grunted and pulled harder
    I could hear the steaming water rushing close by, right below me, it seemedThe steam
    billowed up in a thick cloud, and for a minute I couldn't see anything but Kyle's face, twisted
    with rage into something beastlike and merciless
    I felt my bad leg givingI tried to pull myself closer to him, but his brute strength was winning
    against my desperationHe would have me free in a moment, and I would fall into the hissing
    steam and disappear
    Jared! Jamie!The thought, the agony, belonged to both Melanie and meThey would never
    know what had happened to me
    Kyle abruptly jumped into the air and came down with a thudThe 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 him
    3:22 am
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    Krupkin turned to Jason, switching back to English“Only a woman came through, a woman in
    panic who had inured herself
    “A woman? Is he certain? What color was her hair?” Dimitri asked the guard; with the man’s
    reply he again looked at Bourne“He says it was reddish and quite curly
    “Reddish?” An image came to Jason, a very unpleasant one“A house phone—no, the front
    desk! Come on, I dior handbags may need your help With Krupkin following, the barefooted Bourne ran across
    the lobby to a clerk at the reception counter“Can you speak English?”
    “Certainly most good, even many veniculars, mister sir
    “A room plan for the tenth floor
    “Mister sir?”
    Krupkin translated; a large loose-leaf notebook was placed on the counter, the plastic-enclosed
    page turned to—“This room!” said Jason, chanel ceramic watch pointing at a square and doing his best not to alarm the
    frightened clerk“Get it on the telephone! If the line’s busy, knock off anybody on it
    Again Krupkin translated as a phone was placed in front of BourneHe picked it up and spoke
    “This is the man who came into your room a few minutes ago—”
    “Oh, yes, of course, dear fellowThank you so much! The doctor’s here and Binky’s—”
    “I have to chanel logo earrings know something, and I have to know it right nowDo you carry hairpieces, or wigs,
    with you when you travel?”
    “I’d say that’s rather impertinent—”
    “Lady, I don’t have time for amenities, I have to know! Do you?”
    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
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    “Well, yes I doIt’s no secret, actually, all my friends know it and they forgive the artificeYou
    see, dear boy, I have diabetes my chanel handbags sale gray hair is painfully thin
    “Is one of those wigs red?”
    “As a matter of fact, yesI rather fancy changing—”
    Bourne slammed down the phone and looked over at Krupkin“The son of a bitch lucked outIt
    was Carlos!”
    “Come with me!” said Krupkin as they both raced across the empty lobby to the complex of
    back-room offices of the MetropoleThey reached the nurse’s infirmary door and went men omega watch inside
    Sunday, January 2nd, 2011
    8:14 am
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    Hearn was disgustedAnd once again he was bothered by one of the minor enigmas about the GeneralThe meat business had been a flagrant injustice, one which Hobart as the G-4 in command of assigning supplies would be quite capable of committing, but Hobart had not been responsibleHearn had been in the General's tent when Hobart had come up with a grin and told Cummings that some fresh meat had comeThe General had shrugged and then given some unmistakable suggestions on how it should be dividedThe General chanel knockoff with his undeniable perception must have known what the effect would be on the enlisted men, and yet he had disregarded the resentments it would causeIt could not have been to satisfy his belly, for Hearn watched him pick tastelessly at the fresh meat during the meals that followed, and he almost always left his plate half filledNor could it have been from habit; the General was quite aware of what he was doingHe considered it effectiveAfter Hobart had left, the General had looked at Hearn blankly, his great pale eyes quite gold gucci watch expressionless, and then unaccountably he had winked"Have to keep you happy, RobertPerhaps if the meals are better you won't be indulging your temper so much
    "Very thoughtful of you, sir And the General had roared suddenly with an odd choked mirth that began with a cascade of chuckles, progressed through a choking fit, and ended with him sitting upright in his chair and hawking his sputum into his silk monogrammed handkerchief
    "I think it's about time a recreation tent was set up for the officers' use at night," he said at cartier watch replica last"You're not too busy right now, RobertI'll put you in charge of itBut Hearn understood it finallyHe told the first sergeant of headquarters company to give him a detail of men, had them clear the roots and grass from a plot of ground, cover it with gravel, and erect a squad tentWhen it was up, a deep rain trench was dug all around itA double entrance was contrived at the front to make it a blackout tent, and some strips of canvas from a discarded tent were used to drape over the lashed corners so that no light could leak out at gucci backpack ni
    3:22 am
    @@@@@And maybe we could hit a few
    @@@@@And maybe we could hit a few tennis
    balls
    "Wireman, there's one other thingDid Elizabeth
    ever paint?"
    He laughed"Who knows? I asked her once and she
    said she could hardly draw stick figuresShe said
    her interest in the arts wasn't much different
    from the interest some wealthy alumni have in
    football and basketballShe joked about it, said-
    "
    "If you can't be an athlete, be an athletic
    supporterHow'd you know?"
    "It's an old one," I said
    644
    I hung up and stood where I was, watching the long
    light of evening fire up a Gulf sunset I had no
    urge to paintThey were the same words she'd used
    with Gene HadlockAnd I had no doubt that if I
    asked others, I'd hear the same anecdote once or
    twice or a dozen times: She said I can't even draw
    stick figures, she said if you can't be an athlete,
    be an athletic supporterAnd why? Because an
    honest woman may occasionally goof the truth, but
    a good liar never varies her story
    I hadn't asked him about the red picnic basket,
    but I told myself that was all right; if it was in
    the attic of El Palacio, it would still be there
    the next day, and the day after thatI told
    myself there was timeOf course, that's what we
    always tell ourselves, isn't it? We can't imagine
    time running out, and God punishes us for what we
    can't imagine
    I looked at Girl and Ship No8 with something
    approaching distaste and threw the cover-sheet
    over itI never added the red picnic hamper to
    the bowsprit; I never put a brush to that
    particular painting again - the final mad
    descendent of my first sketch in Big Pink, the one
    645
    I'd named Hello8 may have been the best
    thing I ever did, but in a strange way, I almost
    forgot itUntil the show, that wasAfter that I
    could never forget it
    vi
    The picnic basket
    That damned red picnic basket full of her drawings
    Even now, four years later, I find myself playing
    the what-if game, wondering how much would have
    changed if I'd pushed everything else aside and
    gone hunting for itIt was found - by Jack
    Cantori - but by then it was too late
    And maybe - I can't say for sure - it wouldn't
    have changed anything, because some force was at
    work, both on Duma Key and inside Edgar Freema
    Saturday, January 1st, 2011
    8:14 am
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    characteristic of ScarlettClear and unembellished, with no blots, or
    wavering lines, like tentative writersIt was businesslike and
    straightforwardShe looked at it for a moment before she blotted it
    dry, then she men omega watch looked at it againScarlett O 'Hara ButlerWhen she
    wrote personal notes or invitations, Scarlett followed the fashion of
    the day, adding complicated loops to every capital letter and finishing
    off with a parabola of swirls beneath her nameShe did it now, on a
    scrap of brown wrapping louis vuitton tote paperThen she looked back at the check
    she'd
    just writtenIt was dated-she'd had to ask Suellen what day it was,
    and she was shocked by the answer -October Il, 1873More than
    three
    weeks since Melly's deathShe'd been at Tara for twenty-two days,
    taking care of MammyThe date had other meanings, women rolex watches tooIt was
    more
    than six months ago now that Bonnie diedScarlett could leave off the
    unrelieved dull black of deep mourningShe could accept social
    invitations, invite people to her houseShe could reenter the
    world
    I want to go back to Atlanta, she thought
    There's been too much grieving, gucci mens wallet too much deathShe
    folded the check for SuellenI miss the store, tooThe account
    books are most likely in a fearful messAnd Rhett will be coming to
    Atlanta "to keep gossip down I've got to be thereThe only sound
    she could hear was the slow ticking of the clock in the hall beyond the
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    3:23 am
    @@@@@ He use to tell us over and over again "An
    @@@@@ He use to tell us over and over again "An intelligent person hires people who are more intelligent than they are So Mike and I had the benefit of spending hours listening to and, in the process, learning From
    intelligent people
    But because of this, both Mike and I just could not go along with the standard dogma that our teachers preached, And that caused the problemsWhenever the teacher said, "If you don't get good grades, you won't do well in the real world," Mike and I just raised our eyebrowsWhen we were told to follow set procedures and not deviate from the rules, we could see how this schooling process actually discouraged creativityWe started to understand why our rich dad told us that schools were designed to produce good employees instead of employers
    Occasionally Mike or I would ask our teachers how what we studied was applicable, or we asked why we never studied money and how it workedTo the later question, we often got the answer that money was not important, that if we excelled in our education, the money would follow
    The more we knew about the power of money, the more distant we grew from the teachers and our classmates
    My highly educated dad never pressured me about my grades But we did begin to argue about moneyBy the time I was 16, I probably had a far better foundation with money than both my mom and dad I could keep books, I listened to tax accountants, corporate attorneys, bankers, real estate brokers, investors and so forth My dad talked to teachers
    One day, my dad was telling me why our home was his greatest investmentA not-too-pleasant argument took place when I showed him why I thought a house was not a good investment
    The following diagram illustrates the difference in perception between my rich dad and my poor dad when it came to their homesOne dad thought his house was an asset, and the other dad thought it was a liability
    I remember when I drew a diagram for my dad showing him the direction of cash flow I also showed him the ancillary expenses that went along with owning the homeA bigger home meant bigger expenses, and the cash flow kept going out through the expense column
    Today, I am still challenged on the idea of a house not being an assetAnd 1 know that for many people, it is their dream as well as their largest investmentAnd owning your own home is better than noth
    Friday, December 31st, 2010
    8:22 am
    @@@@@But first it comes from you “Why the
    @@@@@But first it comes from you
    “Why the lie?”
    “You shouldn’t have to ask that, BroI’ve put her through enough
    “All right, I’ll tell her, but she won’t believe meShe’ll see right through me, she always has
    Since I was a kid, those big brown eyes would look into mine, most of the time pissed off, but not
    like our brothers’, not—oh, I don’t know—not with that disgust in their faces because the ‘kid’ was
    a screwupCan you understand that?”
    “It’s called caringShe’s always cared for you—even when you were a screwup
    “Somewhat more than that, I thinkCall her in a couple of hours and bring them back hereIt’s
    the safest place they can be
    “What about you? How are you going to get to Paris? The connections out of Antigua and
    Martinique are lousy, sometimes booked days in advance
    “I can’t use those airlines anywayI’ve got to get in secretly under a shroudSomehow, a man in
    Washington will have to figure it out
    Alexander Conklin limped out of the small kitchen in the CIA’s Vienna apartment, his face and
    hair soaking wetIn the old days, before the old days fell into a distillery vat, he would calmly
    leave the office—wherever it was—when things got too heavy too fast and indulge himself in an
    unwavering ritualHe would seek out the best steak house—again, wherever he was—have two dry
    martinis and a thick rare slab of meat with the greasiest potatoes on the menuThe combination of
    the solitude, the limited intake of alcohol, the blood-rare hunk of beef and, in particular, the greaseladen
    potatoes, had such a calming effect on him that all the rushing, conflicting complexities of the
    hectic day sorted themselves out and reason prevailedHe would return to his office—whether a
    smart flat in London’s Belgravia Square or the back rooms of a whorehouse in Katmandu—with
    multiple solutionsIt was how he got the sobriquet of Saint Alex of ConklinHe had once
    mentioned this gastronomical phenomenon to Mo Panov, who had a succinct reply: “If your crazy
    head doesn’t kill you, your stomach will
    These days, however, with postalcoholic vacuum and various other impediments, such as high
    cholesterol and dumb little triglycerides, whatever the hell they were, he had to come up with a
    different solutionIt came about by accidentOne morning during the Iran-contra hearings, which
    he found to be the finest hours of comedy on television, his set blew
    3:22 am
    @@@@@ Brown returned to Wilson, covered him with
    @@@@@ Brown returned to Wilson, covered him with his own blanket, and the blanket and poncho the others had donated"You feel better, boy?"
    Wilson's shuddering was becoming less frequent"Feels good," he murmured
    Neither of them said anything for a moment or two, and then Wilson began talking once more"Ah want you to know Ah 'preciate what you men are doin' A spasm, of gratefulness welled in him, and tears formed in his eyes"You're pretty goddam good men, an' they ain't a damn thing good enough for yaThe on'y thing worth a damn is when a man's got good buddies, an' you men are really stickin' to meAh swear, Brown, we maybe got a little pissed off at each other from time to time, but they ain't a thing Ah won' do for ya when Ah git fixed upAh always knew you was a buddy
    "No, a man wants, wants In his eagerness he began to stutter"Ah 'preciate it, an' Ah jus' want you to know that Ah'm always gonna be your buddyYou're gonna be able to know that they's one man, Wilson, who'll never have a bad thing to say about ya
    "Better take it easy, boy," Brown saidWilson's voice was rising
    "Ah'm gone to sleep, but don' think Ah don' 'preciate it He was beginning to ramble again
    After a few minutes he became silent
    Brown stared into the darknessOnce more he swore to himselfMore than anything else it was a plea to whatever powers had formed him



    The Time Machine:
    WILLIAM BROWN
    NO APPLE PIE TODAY

    About medium size, a trifle fat, with a young boyish face, a snub nose, freckles, and reddish-brown hairBut wrinkles had formed about his eyes and there were jungle ulcers on his chinAt second glance he was easily twenty-eight years
    Thursday, December 30th, 2010
    8:14 am
    @@@@@ Black letters float there: LINK-BELTI spin
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    Black letters float there: LINK-BELTI spin the Ram's wheel to the left, all
    the way to the stop, knowing I'm too lateThe
    scream of crumpling metal starts, drowning out the
    radio and shrinking the inside of the cab right to
    left because the crane's invading my space,
    stealing my space, and the pickup is tippingI'm
    trying for the driver's-side door, but it's no
    goodI should have done that right away but it
    got too late real earlyThe world in front of me
    disappears as the windshield turns to frozen milk
    shot through with a million cracksThen the
    building site is back and still turning on an axle
    as the windshield pops outPops out? It flies out
    bent in the middle like a playing-card, and I'm
    laying on the horn with the points of both elbows,
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    my right arm doing its last jobI can barely hear
    the horn over the crane's engineLINK-BELT is
    still moving in, pushing the passenger door,
    closing the passenger-side footwell, splintering
    the dashboard in tectonic chunks of plasticThe
    shit from the glove-compartment floats around, the
    radio goes dead, my lunchbucket is tanging against
    my clipboard, and here comes LINK-BELTLINK-BELT
    is right on top of me, I could stick out my tongue
    and lick the fucking hyphenI start screaming
    because that's when the pressure startsThe
    pressure is my right arm first pushing against my
    side, then spreading, then splitting openBlood
    douses my lap like a bucket of hot water and I
    hear something breakingIt
    sounds like chickenbones under a bootheel
    I held Gandalf against me and thought Bring the
    friend, sit in the friend, sit in the fucking PAL,
    you dump bitch!
    And now I'm sitting in the chum, sitting in the
    fucking pal, it's at home but home doesn't feel
    like home with all the clocks of Europe ringing
    inside my cracked head and I can't remember the
    name of the doll Kamen gave me, all I can remember
    48
    is boy names: Randall, Russell, Rudolph, Riverfucking-
    PhoenixI tell her to leave me alone when
    she comes in with the fruit and the fucking
    college cheese, I tell her I need five minutesI
    can do this, I say, because it's the phrase Kamen
    gave me, it's the out, it's the meep-meep-meep
    that says watch it, Pammy, Edgar's backing upBut
    instead of leaving she takes the napkin from the
    tray to wipe the fret off my forehead and while
    she's doing that I grab her by the throat because
    in that moment it seems to me it's her fault I
    can't remember my doll's name, everything is her
    fault, including LINK-BELTI grab her with my
    good left handFor a few seconds I want to kill
    her, and who knows, maybe I tryWhat I do know is
    I'd rather remember all the accidents in this
    round world than the look in her eyes as she
    struggles in my gripThen I think It was RED! and
    let her go
    I held Gandalf against my chest as I had once held
    my infant daughters and thought, I can do
    3:22 am
    @@@@@His birthday dinner, tooWhat a difference
    @@@@@His birthday dinner, tooWhat a
    difference between this birthday feast and the one for her cousin
    Patricia! Scarlett looked at her grandfather's skeletal ramrod body
    and his self-satisfied impassive face, and she despised him for the way
    he was tormenting her auntsBut even more she despised them for
    tolerating historturesThey don't have a shred of gumption
    How can they just sit there like that and take it? Sitting silently at
    her grandfather's table, in the gracious pink room in the handsome
    pink
    house, she seethed with loathing for everything and everyoneI'm as bad as they areWhy on earth can't I just speak up
    and tell him how nasty he's acting? I don't have to talk French to do
    it, he understands English as well as I doI'm a grown woman, not a
    child who mustn't speak until spoken to
    What's wrong with me? This is downright sillyBut she continued to
    sit quietly, her back not touching the chair, her left hand in her lap
    at all timesJust as if she were a child on her best company
    behaviorHer mother's presence was unseen, not even imagined, but
    Ellen Robillard O 'Hara was there, in the house where she'd grown up,
    at the table where she had so often sat as Scarlett was sitting, with
    her left hand resting on the starched linen napkin across her lap
    And, for love of her, for need of her approval, Scarlett was incapable
    of defying the tyranny of Pierre Robillard
    3 She sat for what seemed an eternity, watching Jerome's stately slow
    servicePlates were replaced again and again by new plates, knives
    and forks by fresh knives and forks; it seemed to Scarlett that the
    feast would never endPierre Robillard consistently tasted and
    rejected each carefully selected and prepared dish that was offered
    himBy the time Jerome brought in the birthday cake, the tension
    and
    misery of Scarlett's aunts was palpable, and Scarlett herself was
    barely able to sit still in her chair, so urgent was her longing to
    escapeThe cake was coated in glossy swirled meringue that had
    been
    sprinkled liberally with silver drageesA silver filigreed bud vase
    on top held curling fronds of Angel Hair ferns and miniature silk flags
    of France, the Emperor Napoleon's army, and the regiment in which
    Pierre Robillard had servedThe old man grunted, perhaps with
    pleasure, when it was placed before himHe turned his hooded eyes
    on
    Scarlett"Cut it," he said in EnglishHe hopes I'll knock over the
    flags, she thought, but I'm not going to give him that pleasureAs
    she accepted the cake knife from Jerome with her right hand, with her
    left she quickly lifted the shining bud vase from the cake and put it
    on the tableShe looked directly into her grandfather's eyes and
    smiled her sweetest s
    Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
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    “Fine, then,” Kyle boomed, turning his body toward the ball that sat under the brightest spot of
    light“We'll win it without you
    “I'm coming!” Jared threw one wistful glance at me–at us–and ran to get in on the game
    I wasn't the best scorekeeperIt was too dark to see the ball from where I satIt was too mens gucci watches dark
    even to see the players well when they weren't right under the lightsI began counting from
    Jamie's reactionsHis shout of victory when his team scored, his groan when the other team did
    The groans outnumbered the shoutsMaggie was the goalie for Andy's team, and Jeb was the goalie for Lily's
    They were dior bag both surprisingly goodI could see their silhouettes in the light from the goalpost
    lamps, moving as lithely as if they were decades youngerJeb was not afraid to hit the floor to
    stop a goal, but Maggie was more effective without resorting to such extremesShe was like a
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    Trudy and Paige quit after a half hour or so and passed me on their way out, chattering with
    excitementIt seemed impossible that we'd started the morning with a trial, but I was relieved
    that things had changed so drastically
    The women hermes purse weren't gone longThey came back with arms full of boxesGranola bars–the kind
    with fruit fillingThe game came to a haltJeb called halftime, and everyone hurried over to eat
    breakfast
    The goods were divvied up at the center lineIt was a mob scene at first
    “Here you go, Wanda,” Jamie said, ducking out of the chanel jewelry grou
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    other hand, why not? Novgorod was rife with corruption, everyone suspected that, so perhaps the
    “commandant” was either seeking out the corrupters or collecting his fees at nightRegardless,
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    “Voici ma carte,” said Bourne to the guard at the border crossing as he handed the man his
    computerized card“Vite, s’il vous pla?t!”
    “Da oui,” replied the guard, walking rapidly to the clearance machine as an enormous fuel
    truck, heading the other way, passed through into “England
    “Don’t chanel sale press the French too much,” said Benjamin, in the front seat beside Jason“These cats do
    their best, but they’re not linguistshere I come,” sang Bourne softly“You sure you and your father don’t want to
    join your mother in LA?”
    “Shut up!”
    The guard returned, saluted, and the iron barrier was raisedJason accelerated, and saw in a
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    high enough to be unmistakableAbsently, Bourne’s mind wandered back to those fitful, terrible
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    God, Marie! I want to come back I want to be David againHe and I—we’re so much older now
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    “Hold it,” said Benjamin, touching Jason’s arm
    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
    426
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    “Stop, “cried the young trainer“Pull over and shut off the engine
    “What’s the matter with you?”
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    Monday, December 27th, 2010
    8:14 am
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    "We ain't gonna get a goddam box," Red saidHe was feeling sick, and his back had begun to ache inordinately from the effort it took to shift the bodies with his fingertips
    "Let's quit this mess," Gallagher saidThe sunlight at the mouth of the cave seemed astringent
    "Men, you ain't gonna quit now, are ya?" Wilson pleadedHe was determined to bring back a box
    The sweat ran into Martinez's eyesHe was irritable and impatient"We go back now, huh?" he suggested
    Wilson threw a body aside, and then stepped back with an exclamationHe had uncovered a snake, which moved its head slowly from side to side over the top of one of the boxesThe men all drew away with a murmur of fear and flattened against the opposite wall of the caveRed pressed the safety on his gun, and drew a bead slowly on the head of the snakeHis hands were wavering, and he watched the flat eyes of the snake with absorption"Don' miss," Wilson whispered
    The sound of the shot bounded from wall to wall with the over-pouring clamor of an artillery pieceThe snake's head disappeared into a mash of pulp, and its body quivered frenetically for many secondsThe men watched intently, awe-struck, their ears deafened by the noise of Red's gun"Let's get out of here," Gallagher cried
    They stumbled over one another in their sudden frenzy to get outAll of them had an acute panicWilson mopped his face and breathed deeply of the air outside the ho
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    that is expected to exceed a mile in lengthAll the city's citizens,
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    hundred invitations to Atlanta's finest Knights and fairest Ladies"Damn!" said ScarlettThen desolation took hold of her, and she
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    laughing in Charleston and all her enemies in Atlanta to be having a
    good time while she was stuck by herself in her huge silent house
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    You've never been so lily-livered that you let them make you cry,
    either, she told herself angrilyScarlett rubbed the tears away with
    the backs of her wristsShe wasn't going to wallow in miseryShe
    was going to go after what she wantedShe'd go to the Ball;
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    Ball, it wasn't even difficultScarlett learned that the vaunted
    parade would be made up largely of decorated wagons advertising
    products and storesThere was a fee for participants, of course, as
    well as the cost of decorating the "float," but all those businesses in
    the parade received two invitations to the Ba
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    At least she gave me a fair and favorable write-up the next morning
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    Saturday, December 25th, 2010
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