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    Monday, January 3rd, 2011
    2:26 am
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    @@@@@He had some constraint, for Gallagher was the man he had hated most in the platoonThe warmth and friendliness he felt toward him now were perplexingGoldstein was self-conscious when he saw himself as a Jew talking to a Gentile; then every action, every word, was dictated to a great extent by his desire to make a good impressionAlthough he was gratified when people liked him, part of his satisfaction came from the idea that they were liking a JewAnd so he tried to say only the things that would please Gallagher
    Yet in talking about his family, Goldstein experienced once more an automatic sense of loss and longingWistful images of the beatitudes of married life drifted in his headHe remembered a night when his wife and he had giggled together in the darkness and listened to the quaint pompous snoring of their baby"Children are what makes life worth while," he said sincerely
    Martinez realized with a start that he was a father tooHe remembered Rosalie's pregnancy for the first time in yearsSeven years now? Eight years? He had lost countGoddam, he said to himselfOnce he had been free of the girl he had remembered her only as a source of trouble and worry
    The fact that he had begotten a child made him vainGoddam, I'm okay, he said to himselfHe felt like laughingMartinez make a kid and run awayIt gave him a malicious glee, as though he were a child tormenting a dogWhat the hell she do with it? Knock her upGoddam! His vanity swelled like a bloated bellyHe mused with na?ve delight about his potency, his attraction for womenThat the child was illegitimate increased his self-esteem; somehow it made his role more extravagant, of greater magnitude
    He felt a tolerant, almost condescending affection for GoldsteinBefore this afternoon he had been a little afraid of him and quite un
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    He remembered a story Cummings had told him about an employee in the War Department who had been discharged after some Communist documents had been planted in his desk
    "I'm surprised it worked," Hearn had said"You say everybody knew the man was harmless
    "Those things always work, RobertYou can't begin to imagine how effective the Big Lie isYour average man never dares suspect that the men in power have all the nasty impulses he bags dolce gabbana has, except they're more effective about carrying them outBesides, there's never a man who can swear to his own innocenceWe're all guilty, that's the truthThis particular fellow began to wonder if perhaps he had belonged to the partyWhy do you think Hitler was able to stay unmolested so long? The diplomat mentality at its poorest just couldn't believe that he wasn't playing the old game with some new wrinklesIt took an outside gucci men watch observer like you or me to see that he was the interpreter of twentieth-century man
    Certainly Cummings would have been perfectly capable of planting those documents if he had thought it necessaryJust as he had finagled the whisky labelAnd he was not going to become a chess piece for the General to directNo doubt Cummings saw him now as a diversion
    Hearn stared around the tentIt would be a pleasure to wait for the General and tell him cartier santos 100 that he had brought back the supplies successfully, but it was a tainted pleasure and Cummings would be quite aware of it"Had to extend yourself a bit, didn't you, Robert?" he might sayHearn lit a cigarette, and walked over to the wastebasket to drop the match
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    Let Cummings see that

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    Sunday, January 2nd, 2011
    2:26 am
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    Charleston much longerAfter the turn onto Meeting Street the
    carriage moved into place at the end of a long line of carriages
    One by one they stopped to release passengers, then slowly moved
    on
    It'll be over before we get there at this rate, Scarlett thoughtShe
    looked out the window at people walking, the zucca fendi bag ladies followed by their
    maids carrying their slipper bagsI wish we'd walked, tooIt would
    be lovely to be out in the warm air instead of cooped up in this stuffy
    little spaceShe was startled by the sharp clanging of a streetcar
    bell to their leftHow can there be a streetcar running? she
    wonderedThey always stopped at nine o'clockShe heard the bells
    from StMichael's steeple ring two full ladies gucci watch rounds
    "Isn't it nice to see the streetcar with nobody on it but people
    dressed for a ball?" said Eleanor Butler"Did you know, Scarlett,
    that they always stop running the cars early on the night of the Saint
    Cecilia so they can scrub them out before they make the special runs
    to
    take people to the ball?"
    "I didn't know that, Miss EleanorHow do people get home?"
    "Oh, they run another clutch prada special at two when the ball's over
    "What if somebody wants to ride who isn't going to the ball?"
    "They can't, of courseNobody would even think of itEverybody
    knows the cars don't run after nine o'clock"Mama,
    you sound like the duchess in Alice in Wonderland" Eleanor Butler
    began
    to laugh, too"I suppose I do," she sputtered cheerfully, then
    laughed even harderShe was still laughing when the ladies watches gucci carriage moved
    forward and stopped and the door was pulled openScarlett looked
    out
    onto a scene that made her catch her breathThis was the way a ball
    should oe be! Tall black iron poles held a pair of enormous lanterns
    brightly lit with a half dozen gas jetsThey illuminated the deep
    portico and towering white columns of a temple-like building set back
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    2:18 am
    @@@@@She enjoyed whatever life brought her and
    @@@@@She enjoyed whatever
    life brought her and found the human condition fundamentally
    entertaining, and she was a gifted teller of stories, with a repertoire
    that ranged from accounts of amusing incidents in her own life to the
    classic Southern storehouse of the skeletons in the closets of every
    family in the regionScarlett, if she had known the reference, could
    accurately have called Eleanor her personal ScheherazadeShe never
    realized that MrsButler was trying, indirectly, to stretch her mind
    and her heart
    Eleanor could see the vulnerability and courage that had drawn her
    beloved son to ScarlettShe could also see that something had gone
    horribly wrong with the marriage, so wrong that Rhett wanted nothing
    more to do with itShe knew, without being told, that Scarlett was
    desperately determined to get him back, and for her own reasons she
    was
    even more eager for reconciliation than Scarlett wasShe wasn't
    certain whether Scarlett could make Rhett happy, but she believed
    with
    all her heart that another child would make the marriage a success
    Rhett had visited her with Bonnie; she would never forget the joy of
    it
    She had loved the little girl and loved even more seeing her son so
    happyShe wanted that happiness again for him, and the joy again
    for
    herselfShe was willing to do anything in her power to accomplish
    it
    Because she was so occupied, Scarlett had been in Charleston for
    more
    than a month before she noticed that she was boredIt happened at
    Sally Brewton's, the least boring place in town, when everyone was
    talking about fashion, a subject that had previously been of consuming
    interest to ScarlettAt first she was fascinated to hear Sally and
    her circle of friends mention ParisRhett had once brought her a
    bonnet from Paris, the most beautiful, most exciting gift she'd ever
    receivedGreen-to match her eyes, he'd said-with glorious wide silk
    ribbons to tie under her chinShe made herself listen to what Alicia
    Savage was saying-though what a skinny old lady like her could know
    about dressing was hard to figureWith her face
    and flat chest, nothing would make her look 00d'0 you remember
    Worth's fittings?" Mrs"I thought I'd collapse
    standing on the platform so long A half dozen voices spoke at once,
    sharing complaints about the brutality of Paris dressmakersOthers
    argued with them, saying that any inconvenience was a small price to
    pay for the quality that only Paris could supplySeveral sighed over
    memories of gloves and boots and fans and perfumeScarlett turned
    automatically toward whatever voice was speaking, an interested
    expression on her face
    When she heard laughter, she laug
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    “I’ll get Jason—”
    “Aleksei, listen to me!”
    “What?” Conklin cupped the telephone under his chin as he reached down for the hollowed—
    out prosthetic boot
    “We’ve formed a tactical assault squad, men and women in civilian clothes—they’re being
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    “But we have purposely not alerted the hotel staff or the police
    “You’d be idiots if you did,” broke in Alex“We’ll settle for taking the son of a bitch here!
    We’d never do it with uniforms prowling around or clerks in hystericsThe Jackal has eyes in his
    kneecaps
    “Do as I say,” ordered the Soviet“Admit no one, stay away from the windows and take all
    precautionsWhat do you mean, the windows? He’ll need time to find out gucci ladies watches where we are to
    question the maids, the stewards
    “Forgive me, old friend,” interrupted Krupkin, “but an angelic priest inquiring at the desk about
    two Americans, one with a pronounced limp, during the early morning rush in the lobby?”
    “Good point, even if you’re paranoid
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    “Certainly faster than that messenger bag prada fool in DzerzhinskyI would have reached you long before now, but
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    “I’ll wake up Bourne
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    387
    “Be careful
    Conklin did not hear the Soviet’s final admonitionInstead, he swiftly replaced the telephone
    and pulled on his boot, carelessly lashing the Velcro straps around his calfHe then opened the
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    with three clips of ammunitionThe Graz, as it was commonly known, was unique insofar as it was
    the only automatic known that would accept a silencerThe cylindrical instrument had rolled to the
    front of the drawer; he removed it and spun it into the short barrelUnsteadily, he got into his
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    2:18 am
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    “Then I’ve got work to doOut, but keep me monitored The agent rose from the pavement and
    unsteadily made his way into the dilapidated buildingThe telephone repairman had reached the
    second floor, where he turned right in the narrow, filthy corridor; he had obviously been there
    before, as there was no hesitation, no checking the barely legible numbers on the doorsThings
    were going to be a little easier, considered the CIA man, grateful because his assignment was
    beyond the purview of the AgencyPurview, shit, it was illegal
    The agent took the steps three at a time, his soft double-soled rubber shoes reducing the noise to
    the inevitable creaks of an old staircaseHis back against the wall, he peered around the corner of
    the trash-filled hallway and watched the repairman insert three separate keys into three vertical
    locks, turning each in succession and entering the last door on the leftThings, reconsidered the
    agent, might not be so easy after allThe instant the man closed the door, he ran silently down the
    corridor and stood motionless, listeningNot wonderful, but not the worst, he thought as he heard
    the sound of only one lock being latched; the repairman was in a hurryHe placed his ear against
    the peeling paint of the door and held his breath, no echo from his lungs disturbing his hearing
    Thirty seconds later he turned his head, exhaled, then took a deep breath and went back to the door
    Although muffled, he heard the words clearly enough to piece together the meaning
    “Central, this is Mike up on a Hundred Thirty-eighth Street, section twelve, machine sixteenIs
    there another unit in this building, which I wouldn’t believe if you said there was The following
    silence lasted perhaps twenty additional secondsWe don’t, huh? Well, we got a frequency
    interference and it don’t make no sense to meThe what? Cable TV? Ain’t no one in this
    neighborhood got the bread for thatOh, I gotcha, brotherThe drug boys live high,
    don’t they? Their addresses may be shit, but inside them homes they got theyselves a pile of fancy
    crapSo clear the line and reroute itI’ll stay here until I get a clean signal, okay, brother?”
    The agent again turned away from the door and again breathed, now in reliefHe could leave
    without a confrontation; he had all he neededOne Hundred Thirty-eighth Street, section twelve,
    machine sixteen, and they knew the firm that installed the equipment
    Friday, December 31st, 2010
    2:26 am
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    over the excesses of the night before
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    it's like I go into a daze"I'm not trying to set the world's
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    that?"
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    4:55 PM
    February 10
    Soon should be soon enoughAs long as you're not
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    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
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    5:05 PM
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    354
    February 10
    Name the date and I'm there
    I was smiling as I shut the computer downAnd
    misting up a little, too
    v
    A day later, I went to Nokomis with Wireman to
    pick up a new sink-trap for the folks at 17
    (sports car; shitty country gucci mens watch music) and some
    plastic fencing at the hardware store for the Mean
    DogsWireman didn't need my help, and he
    certainly didn't need me limping around behind him
    in the Nokomis TruValue, but it was a crappy,
    rainy day, and I wanted to get off the islandWe
    had lunch at Ophelia's and argued about rock and
    roll, which made it a cheerful outingWhen I got
    back, the message light on my answering machine
    was blinking"Call me," she said, and
    hung up
    I did, but first - this feels like a confession,
    and a chanel bag price cowardly one, at that - I went online,
    surfed to that day's Minneapolis StarTribune, and
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    clicked on OBITUARIESI scrolled through the
    names quickly and made sure Thomas Riley wasn't
    one of them, knowing it proved nothing; he might
    have offed himself too late to make the morning
    line
    Sometimes she muted the phone and napped in the
    afternoon, in which case I'd get the answering
    machine and a little reprieve
    It was Pam herself, soft but not warm: "Hello
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    and shook it furiouslyWhen the stout black maid appeared carrying
    two small dishes of pudding, Scarlett stalked over to herShe put her
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    hot
    Go on!" She sat down with a flounce, ready to do battle with her
    aunts
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    Pauline contained herself until Scarlett's food was half-eaten
    Then, "What did Pere say to you?" she asked politelyScarlett wiped
    her mouth with her napkin"He just tried to bully me the way he does
    you and Aunt 'Laue, so I gave him a piece of my mind The two sisters exchanged shocked looksScarlett smiled and
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    caused by his recognition of her resemblance to himWhen dessert
    was
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    "Sister and I were just saying how much we enjoyed having you with
    us
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    2:18 am
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    "Honestly, Mama!" said Rosemary"How can you call those bluecoated
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    holidays than here badgering usI think they're embarrassed
    "You and your cronies have something up your lace-edged sleeves, I'll
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    will
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    our baskets to search for contraband when we left the MarketIf they
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    things underneath the turnip greens and rice
    "Broken eggs?" Scarlett offered"Itching powder," suggested Rhett
    Miss Eleanor giggled for the third time
    "And a few more things, besides," she said complacently"We
    developed
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    wasn't around; it will all be new to themI'll bet a lot of these men
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    long time ago"I do wish Ross could be here," she added abruptly, all
    laughter gone"When do you suppose it will be safe for your brother
    to come back home, Rhett?"
    "It depends on how quickly you and your friends get the Yankees
    whipped
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    "That's all right, thenIt doesn't matter if he misses all the rest
    as long as he's home for the Ball Scarlett could hear the capital B
    in Miss Eleanor's v
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    Jackal’s driving
    “That’s crazy!”
    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
    405
    “You said it, MrI’m an upstanding citizen of the Soviet Union, please
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    “But what’s it all got to do with Novgorod—that is what he said, isn’t it?”
    “NovgorodShto eto znachit?” said Krupkin to the KGB officialIn rapid, clipped Russian, the
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    fading, his breathing becoming increasingly more labored“Apparently there is a walk-around
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    disinherited, marked for execution as a madmanHe held his gun against everyone’s throat, quietly
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    a full day’s drive
    “Drive?” interjected Bourne
    “He knows he cannot use any other means of transportationThe railroads, the airports—even
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    Krupkin at the Russian embassy here in ParisWe’ll be working with the local KGB—you, me,
    Bourne and Marie—if and when we find themHopefully, in Rambouillet in an hour or so
    “What are you saying?” asked Mo, astonished and barely omega de ville audible
    “Long story, short timeMoscow wants the Jackal’s head, the rest of him separated from it
    Washington can’t feed us or protect us, so the Soviets will act as our temporary paterfamilias if we
    find ourselves in a bind
    Panov frowned, then shook his head as though absorbing very strange information, then spoke
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    it
    “On paper, Mo,” said Conklin“Not with Dimitri Krupkin
    “Oh? He’s one of the evil people?”
    “Kruppie evil? No, not really—”
    “Kruppie?”
    “We go way back as young hustlers to Istanbul in the late sixties and Athens after that, then
    Amsterdam laterKrupkin’s not malevolent, and he works like a son of a bitch for Moscow with
    a damn good watches gucci second-rate mind, better than eighty percent of the clowns in our business, but he’s
    got a problemHe’s fundamentally on the wrong side, in the wrong societyHis parents should
    have come over with mine when the Bolsheviks took the throneYour family was Russian
    “Speaking the language helps with KruppieI can nail his nuancesHe’s the quintessential
    capitalistLike the economic ministers in lady dior Beijing, he doesn’t just like money, he’s obsessed with
    it—and everything that goes with itOut of sight and out of sanction, he could be bought
    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
    308
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    to it or go crazy, and there was only one way to
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    Ian reached over to take my hand“You're the good-luck charm
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    I saw his head turn sharply as he heard the unexpected sound of a lie in my voiceI didn't meet
    his gaze
    “Let's go catch some Healers,” I muttered
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    They responded with the instant concern I knew they would showI hurried to open the back
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    with the chlorof
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