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| Monday, January 3rd, 2011 | | 10:06 pm |
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was comingI knew what @@@@@Norris, “I knew what was comingI knew what you were going to sayIf dear Julia were at home, or dearest MrsRushworth at Sotherton, to afford a reason, an occasion for such a thing, you would be tempted to give the young people a dance at MansfieldIf they were at home to grace the ball, a ball you would have this very Christmas Thank your uncle, William, thank your uncle!” “My daughters,” replied Sir Thomas, gravely interposing, “have their pleasures at Brighton, and I hope are very happy; but the dance which I think of giving at Mansfield will be for their cousinsCould we be all assembled, our satisfaction would undoubtedly be more complete, but the absence of some is not to debar the others of amusementNorris had not another word to sayShe saw decision in his 219 Jane Austen looks, and her surprise and vexation required some minutes’ silence to be settled into composureA ball at such a time! His daughters absent and herself not consulted! There was comfort, however, soon at handShe must be the doer of everything: Lady Bertram would of course be spared all thought and exertion, and it would all fall upon herShe should have to do the honours of the evening; and this reflection quickly restored so much of her good-humour as enabled her to join in with the others, before their happiness and thanks were all expressed Edmund, William, and Fanny did, in their different ways, look and speak as much grateful pleasure in the promised ball as Sir Thomas could desireEdmund’s feelings were for the other twoHis father had never conferred a favour or shewn a kindness more to his satisfaction Lady Bertram was perfectly quiescent and contented, and had no objections to makeSir Thomas engaged for its giving her very little trouble; and she assured him “that she was not at all afraid of the trouble; indeed, she could not imagine there would be anyNorris was ready with her suggestions as to the rooms he would think fittest to be used, but found it all prearranged; and when she would have conjectured and hinted about the day, it appeared that the day was settled tooSir Thomas had been amusing himself with shaping a very complete outline of the business; and as soon as she would listen quietly, could read his list of the families to be invited, from whom he calculated, with all necessary allowance for the shortness of the notice, to collect young people enough to form twelve or fourteen couple: and could detail the considerations which had induced him to fix on the 22nd as the most eligible day William was required to be at Portsmouth on the 24th; the 22nd would therefore be the last day of his visit; but where the days were so few it would be unwise to fix on any earlierNorris was obliged to be satisfied with thinking just the same, and with having been on the point of proposing the 22nd herself, as by far the best day for the purpose The ball was now a settled thing, and before the evening a proclaimed thing to all whom it concernedInvitations were sent with despatch, and many a young lady went to bed that night with her 220 Mansfield Park head full of happy cares as well as FannyTo her the cares were sometimes almost beyond the happiness; for young and inexperienced, with small means of choice and no confidence in her own taste, the “how she should be dressed” was a point of painful solicitude; and the almost solitary ornament in her possession, a very pretty amber cross which William had brought her from Sicily, was the greatest distress of all, for she had nothing but a bit of ribbon to fasten it to; and though she had worn it in that manner once, would it be allowable at such a time in the midst of all the rich ornaments which she supposed all the other young ladies would appear in? And yet not to wear it! William had wanted to buy her a gold chain too, but the purchase had been beyond his means, and therefore not to wear the cross might be mortifying himThese were anxious considerations; enough to sober her spirits even under the prospect of a ball given principally for her gratificat | | Sunday, January 2nd, 2011 | | 10:06 pm |
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“Because I have to figure out another @@@@@ “Because I have to figure out another admiral before I move any further into Medusa territory Atkinson, our impeccable WASP ambassador to the Court of StJames’s in London, was very clearIn his panic, he pulled the masks off Burton and Teagarten in Brussels Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM 56 “So?” “He said Teagarten could handle the Agency if anything about the old Saigon surfaced— because he was very tight with the top max at Langley “And?” “ ‘Top max’ is the Washington euphemism for maximum-classified security, and where Langley is concerned that’s the director of Central IntelligenceThat’s also Peter Holland “You told me this morning he’d have no problem wasting any member of Medusa “Anyone can say anythingBut would he?” Across the Atlantic, in the old Paris suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine, an old man in a dark threadbare suit trudged up the concrete path toward the entrance of the sixteenth-century cathedral known as the Church of the Blessed SacramentThe bells in the tower above tolled the first Angelus and the man stopped in the morning sunlight, blessing himself and whispering to the sky “Angelus domini nuntiavit Mariae With his right hand he blew a kiss to the bas-relief crucifix atop the stone archway and proceeded up the steps and through the huge doors of the cathedral, aware that two robed priests eyed him with distasteI apologize for defiling your rich parish, you tight-assed snobs, he thought as he lit a candle and placed it in the prayer rack, but Christ made it clear that he preferred me to you‘The meek shall inherit the earth’—what you haven’t stolen of it The old man moved cautiously down the center aisle, his right hand gripping the backs of successive pews for balance, his left fingering the rim of his outsized collar and slipping down to his tie so as to make sure the knot had not somehow come apartHis woman was so weak now that she could barely fold the damn thing together, but, as in the old days, she insisted on putting the finishing touches on his appearance before he went to workShe was still a good woman; they had both laughed, remembering the time she swore at his cuff links over forty years ago because she had put too much starch in his shirtThat night, so long ago, she had wanted him to look the proper bureaucrat when he went to the whore-mongering Oberführer’s headquarters on the rue StLazare carrying a briefcase—a briefcase that, left behind, had blown up half the blockAnd twenty years later, one winter afternoon she’d had trouble making his stolen expensive overcoat hang properly on his shoulders before he set off to rob the Grande Banque Louis IX on the Madeleine, run by an educated but unappreciative former member of the Résistance who refused him a loanThose were the good times, followed by bad times and bad health, which led to worse times—in truth, destitute timesUntil a man came along, a strange man with an odd calling and an even odder unwritten contractAfter that, respect returned in the form of sufficient money for decent food and acceptable wine, for clothes that fit, making his woman look pretty again, and, most important, for the doctors who made his woman feel betterThe suit and shirt he wore today had been dug out of a clo | | Saturday, January 1st, 2011 | | 10:07 pm |
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Ian, a few feet down from us, turned his @@@@@ Ian, a few feet down from us, turned his body so it looked like he was part of the group “We boiled soup today,” Jamie announced“My eyes are still stinging Doc held up a pair of bright red hands Doc gave a mocking bow from the waist, then turned to me“Wanda, I had a question for you” He let the words trail off I raised my eyebrows “Well, I was wondering Of all the different planets you're familiar with, which species is physically the closest to humankind?” I blinked“Why?” “Just good old-fashioned biological curiosityI guess I've been thinking about your Healers Where do they get the knowledge to cure, rather than just treat symptoms, as you said?” Doc was speaking louder than necessary, his mild voice carrying farther than usualSeveral people looked up–Trudy and Geoffrey, Lily, Walter… I wrapped my arms tightly around myself, trying to take up less space“Those are two different questions,” I murmured Doc smiled and gestured with one hand for me to proceed Jamie squeezed my hand“The Bears on the Mists Planet, probably “With the claw beasts?” Jamie whispered “How are they similar?” Doc prodded I rolled my eyes, feeling Jeb's direction in this, but continued“They're close to mammals in many waysTheir blood isn't exactly the same as yours, but it does essentially the same jobThey have similar emotions, the same need for societal interaction and creative outlets –” “Creative?” Doc leaned forward, fascinated–or feigning fascination“How so?” I looked at Jamie | | Thursday, December 30th, 2010 | | 10:00 pm |
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Martinez is in the cadre for General Cummings's infantry division, goes overseas as a corporal in recon There are discoveriesAussie girls can be madeThe streets of Sydney, the blonde girl with the freckles who holds his handI think you're awful cute, JoolioThe taste of Aussie beer, and the Aussie soldiers hitting him for a buck Yank, got a shilling or two? Yank? Okay, he mumbles The blonde prostitutes to whom he makes loveOh, what a roll you got, Joolie, what a bloody bloody rollLieutenant Bradford now, I frig Peggy Reilly and Alice Stewart, I will be hero
Martinez looks at a blade of grassThe whip of the bullet is lost crying in the wildernessHe crawls, slithers behind a stumpThe grenade is heavy and dull in his palmHe lofts it into the air, hugs his head in the deep secret embrace(Momma's arms are great and her breasts are soft Did ya get the sonofabitch? Where the hell is he? Martinez inches forwardThe Jap lies on his back with his chin jerked toward heavenThe white tripe of his gut makes a flower on the field of r | | Wednesday, December 29th, 2010 | | 10:00 pm |
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“We are so totally unlike,” said Fanny, @@@@@ “We are so totally unlike,” said Fanny, avoiding a direct answer, “we are so very, very different in all our inclinations and ways, that I consider it as quite impossible we should ever be tolerably happy together, even if I could like himThere never were two people more dissimilarWe have not one taste in commonWe should be miserable “You are mistaken, FannyThe dissimilarity is not so strongYou are quite enough alikeYou have tastes in commonYou have moral and literary tastes in commonYou have both warm hearts and benevolent feelings; and, Fanny, who that heard him read, and saw you listen to Shakespeare the other night, will think you unfitted as companions? You forget yourself: there is a decided difference in your tempers, I allowHe is lively, you are serious; but so much the better: his spirits will support yoursIt is your disposition to be easily dejected and to fancy difficulties greater than they areHis cheerfulness will counteract thisHe sees difficulties nowhere: and his pleasantness and gaiety will be a constant support to youYour being so far unlike, Fanny, does not in the smallest degree make against the probability of your happiness together: do not imagine itI am myself convinced that it is rather a favourable circumstance I am perfectly persuaded that the tempers had better be unlike: I mean unlike in the flow of the spirits, in the manners, in the inclination for much or little company, in the propensity to talk or to be silent, to be grave or to be gaySome opposition here is, I am thoroughly convinced, friendly to matrimonial happinessI exclude extremes, of course; and a very close resemblance in all those points would be the likeliest way to produce an extremeA counteraction, gentle and continual, is the best safeguard of manners and conduct Full well could Fanny guess where his thoughts were now: Miss Crawford’s power was all returningHe had been speaking of her cheerfully from the hour of his coming homeHis avoiding her was quite at an endHe had dined at the Parsonage only the preceding day After leaving him to his happier thoughts for some minutes, Fanny, feeling it due to herself, returned to Mr | | Monday, December 27th, 2010 | | 10:05 pm |
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"Whiteboy troubleIt @@@@@What's in Donegal?" "Whiteboy troubleIt seems to be more concentrated there than any other county "Two constables stopped me to search my buggy "All the patrols are out nowWith rents coming due soon-but I don't want to talk militaryWhat they haven't seen him laugh like that in yar5y,o,u say to John Graham? I "Do you know him?" "Very well Scarlett laughed until her sides achedIs that what 'diffident' means? If you'd only brag a little, Charles, you could have saved me a lot of trouble I've been trying to get with the Blazers for a year, but I didn't know anybody "The one you'll really like is my Aunt LetitiaShe can ride Uncle John into the ground and never look backCome on, I'll introduce you There were promising rumbles of thunder, but no rainBy midday the air was stiflingErnest Sutcliffe rang the dinner gong to get everyone's attentionhe and his wife had planned something different for the afternoon, he said nervously "There is the usual croquet and archery, what? Or the library and billiards in the house, what? Or whatever one does customarily What?" "Do get on with it Ernest," said his wifeWith many starts and stops and sputters Ernest got on with itThere were bathing costumes for anyone who wanted one and ropes strung across the river for the adventurous to hold on to while cooling off in the rushing water "hardly 'rushing,'" amended Nan Sutcliffe, "but a decent little currentFootmen will be there with iced champagne Scarlett was one of the first to acceptIt sounded like being in a cool tub all afternoonIt was immensely more enjoyable than a cool tub, even though the water was warmer than she'd hoped it would | | Saturday, December 25th, 2010 | | 10:10 pm |
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@@@@@During the day there was constant activity @@@@@During the day there was constant activity with men working on improvements in the bivouac area, and trucks constantly moving in and out of the motor poolsOn the other side of the road the maintenance shops were in operation in service company, and in the somnolent afternoons in the jungle he could hear their machine tools grindingHis own bivouac had been enlarged several times and by now the barbed wire around the perimeter enclosed an ellipse of earth almost two hundred yards long and more than half as wide, and in the area were over a hundred pup tents, a dozen pyramidal and squad tents, a row of twenty fly tents in which his officers were housed, three latrines, two field kitchens, over forty trucks and jeeps, and almost three hundred men Recon was a very small part of all thisWith the five new replacements, the platoon had a total strength of fourteen men, and their arc of the bivouac consisted of seven pup tents extended in ten-yard intervals along a section of the perimeterAt night two men in the platoon would be awake at any hour, sitting in the two machine-gun emplacements that faced past the barbed wire toward the jungle; in the daytime the perimeter would be virtually deserted, with only one man left behind as the rest of the platoon went out to work on the roadFive weeks had gone by since invasion day, and with the exception of a few routine security patrols around the new bivouac, the platoon had seen no activityIt was approaching the rainy season, and it grew hotter each day, more trying to work on the roadBy the time they had been in the new bivouac for a week, many of the men, including some of the veterans of the Motome campaign, were wishing for combat again
After evening chow Red had washed up, and moved over to Wilson and Gallagher's tentAll day it had been extremely hot and sultry, even more unbearable than the days and nights before it, and Red was feeling irritableThe day, like every other day, had been spent working on the road Gallagher and Wilson were sprawled in their tent, smoking quietly without talking"Whateya say, Red?" Wilson drawled at last Red wiped his forehead"That kid Wyman! It used to be bad enough bunkin' with a Boy Scout like Toglio, but that kid Wyman"They're gonna be sendin' 'em overseas soon with a sugar tit "Yeah, the platoon seems all topside-bottom since we got the replacements," Wilson complainedHe sighed, and ran the sleeve of his fatigue shirt over his chin, which was moist with perspiration"Weather's fixin' to act up," he said quietly "More fuggin rain," Gallagher snorted Dark slated clouds were washing the eastern sky and mounting thunderheads in the north and southThe air was leaden and moist, hanging limp without a murmurEven the coconut trees seemed swollen and expectant, their leaves drooping languidly over and raw chopped earth of the bivouac "That corduroy we put in is gonna be washed out," Gallagher said | | Thursday, December 23rd, 2010 | | 10:00 pm |
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he cares for nobody but youAt @@@@@Be assured he cares for nobody but youAt this very moment he is wild to see you, and occupied only in contriving the means for doing so, and for making his pleasure conduce to yoursIn proof, he repeats, and more eagerly, what he said at Portsmouth about our conveying you home, and I join him in it with all my soulDear Fanny, write directly, and tell us to comeIt will do us all goodHe and I can go to the Parsonage, you know, and be no trouble to our friends at Mansfield ParkIt would really be gratifying to see them all again, and a little addition of society might be of infinite use to them; and as to yourself, you must feel yourself to be so wanted there, that you cannot in conscience—conscientious as you are—keep away, when you have the means of returningI have not time or patience to give half Henry’s messages; be satisfied that the spirit of each and every one is unalterable affection Fanny’s disgust at the greater part of this letter, with her extreme 382 Mansfield Park reluctance to bring the writer of it and her cousin Edmund together, would have made her (as she felt) incapable of judging impartially whether the concluding offer might be accepted or notTo herself, individually, it was most temptingTo be finding herself, perhaps within three days, transported to Mansfield, was an image of the greatest felicity, but it would have been a material drawback to be owing such felicity to persons in whose feelings and conduct, at the present moment, she saw so much to condemn: the sister’s feelings, the brother’s conduct, her cold-hearted ambition, his thoughtless vanityTo have him still the acquaintance, the flirt perhaps, of Mrs Rushworth! She was mortifiedShe had thought better of him Happily, however, she was not left to weigh and decide between opposite inclinations and doubtful notions of right; there was no occasion to determine whether she ought to keep Edmund and Mary asunder or notShe had a rule to apply to, which settled everything Her awe of her uncle, and her dread of taking a liberty with him, made it instantly plain to her what she had to doShe must absolutely decline the proposalIf he wanted, he would send for her; and even to offer an early return was a presumption which hardly anything would have seemed to justifyShe thanked Miss Crawford, but gave a decided negative“Her uncle, she understood, meant to fetch her; and as her cousin’s illness had continued so many weeks without her being thought at all necessary, she must suppose her return would be unwelcome at present, and that she should be felt an encumbrance Her representation of her cousin’s state at this time was exactly according to her own belief of it, and such as she supposed would convey to the sanguine mind of her correspondent the hope of everything she was wishing forEdmund would be forgiven for being a clergyman, it seemed, under certain conditions of wealth; and this, she suspected, was all the conquest of prejudice which he was so ready to congratulate himself uponShe had only learnt to think nothing of consequence but money 383 Jane Austen CHAPTER XLVI AS FANNY could not doubt that her answer was conveying a real disappointment, she was rather in expectation, from her knowledge of Miss Crawford’s temper, of being urged again; and though no second letter arrived for the space of a week, she had still the same feeling when it did com | | Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010 | | 10:14 pm |
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