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    Monday, January 3rd, 2011
    12:38 pm
    @@@@@“They've got Kyle and JaredWe're dead
    @@@@@“They've got Kyle and JaredWe're dead without you“I'll… I'll keep score
    He looked at me, his lips pressed into a thin, rigid line“I'm not really in the mood for playing a
    game
    “C'mon, Ian,” Jamie urged
    “I want to watch,” I said“But it will be… boring if one team has too much advantage“You really are the worst liar I've ever met
    But he got up and started stretching with Wes
    Paige set up goalposts, four lanterns
    I tried to get to my feet–I was right in the middle of the fieldNobody noticed me in the dim
    lightAll around, the atmosphere was upbeat now, charged with anticipationThis was something they needed, odd as it seemed to me
    I was able to get onto all fours, and then I pulled my good leg forward so I was kneeling on the
    badI tried to hop up onto my good leg from thereMy balance was all off, thanks to the
    awkward weight of my sore leg
    Strong hands caught me before I could fall on my faceI looked up, a little rueful, to thank Ian
    The words caught in my throat when I saw that it was Jared whose arms held me up
    “You could have just asked for help,” he said conversationally
    “I –” I cleared my throatI didn't want to…”
    “Call attention to yourself?” He said the words as if he were truly curiousThere was no
    accusation in the
    8:03 am
    @@@@@Better they come while Jeb was still here“If
    @@@@@Better they come while Jeb was still here“If you're so sure, then
    leave me here aloneLet what happens happenBut don't put Jamie in danger!”
    “Is it the kid you're worried about, or are you just afraid that he'll turn the gun on you?” Jeb
    asked, his voice almost languid
    I blinked, my anger derailedThat thought had not even occurred to meI glanced blankly at
    Jamie, met his surprised gaze, and saw that the idea was shocking to him, too
    It took me a minute to recover my side of the argument, and by the time I did, Jeb's expression
    had changedHis eyes were intent, his mouth pursed–as if he were about to fit the last piece
    into a frustrating puzzle
    “Give the gun to Ian or any of the othersI don't care,” I said, my voice slow and even“Just
    leave the boy out of this
    Jeb's sudden face-wide grin reminded me, strangely, of a pouncing cat
    “It's my house, kid, and I'll do what I want
    Jeb turned his back and ambled away down the hall, whistling as he wentI watched him go,
    my mouth hanging openWhen he disappeared, I turned to Jamie, who was watching me with a
    sullen expression
    “I'm not a child,” he muttered in a deeper tone than usual, his chin jutting out belligerently
    “Now, you should… you should go in your room
    The order was less than severe, but there was nothing else I could doI'd lost this disagreement
    by a large margin
    I sat down with my back against the rock that formed one side of the cave opening–the side
    where I could hide behind the half-opened screen but still watch JamieI wrapped my arms
    around my legs and began doing what I knew I would be doing as long as this insane situation
    continued: I worried
    I also strained my eyes and ears for some sound of approach, to be readyNo matter what Jeb
    said, I would prevent anyone from challenging Jamie's gua
    Sunday, January 2nd, 2011
    12:38 pm
    @@@@@ Each maggot was about a half inch long and
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    Each maggot was about a half inch long and it looked like a slug except that it was the color of a fish's bellyThe maggots covered the dead bodies the way bees cluster over the head of a beekeeperIt was impossible to see any longer where the wounds had been, for the maggots covered every bit of ruptured flesh and crawled sluggishly over all the minor sores on the corpseGallagher watched drunkenly while a train of maggots filed into the gaping mouth of the dead manSomehow he expected the maggots to make some sound, and their rapt noiseless feeding angered himThe stench was acute and flies lusted over the corpses
    "Goddam flies," he mutteredHe walked around a body and picked up a small paper carton which was lying on the groundThe cardboard was sodden and fell apart in his hands; he picked out a few tiny vials which contained a dark liquid, and looked morosely at them for a few seconds"What are these?" he askedNo one answered, and after a moment he threw them to the ground again"What I want to know is where the fug is the souvenirs?"
    Wilson was trying to remove the bolt from a rusted rifle"Ah'm gonna get me one of them sammerigh swords one of these days," he announcedHe prodded a corpse with the butt of the Japanese rifle, and made a face"Goddam carrion, that's all we are, men, goddam carrion A few ribs were protruding from the cadaverous chest and in the late afternoon light they had a silver sheenThe exposed flesh had turned a sickly brown-green"Look jus' like a shoulder o' lamb," Wilson statedHe sighed again, and began to wander off down the ridgeThere were a few natural caves on the reverse slope, and in one of them were a half dozen dead men piled over many boxes and crates"Hey, men," Wilson yelled, "Ah found ya somethin' He was proud of himselfThe drunken taunts of the others had hurt his feelings"If ol' Wilson tell ya that he get somethin', then he do it
    A truck went rumbling down the road toward the forward bivouac area
    8:03 am
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    Sergeant Brown looked at the coconut tiffany toggle heart trees which were shorn at the top from the shellingFarther down, another grove had remained untouched, and he shook his headPlenty of men could have lived through that bombardment, he told himself"This ain't such a bad shelling, compared to what they did to Motome," he said He turned over on his stomach in the sand, and lit a cigarette"The beach stinks already," he gucci backpack announced
    "How can it stink?" Stanley asked
    "It just stinks," Red answeredHe didn't like Stanley, and although he had exaggerated the faint brackish odor that came from the jungle, he was ready to defend his statementHe felt an old familiar depression seeping through him; he was bored and irritable, it was too early to eat, and he had smoked too many cigarettes"There ain't any tiffany diamond invasion going on," he said, "this is practice
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    Red looked at him warily"What's the matter?" he asked, "you want to win the war all by yourself?" They stared tensely at each other for a few seconds, and then Croft strode off
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    Saturday, January 1st, 2011
    12:46 pm
    @@@@@ Colleton's arm stiffenedButler, you sold
    @@@@@ Colleton's
    arm stiffenedButler, you sold me green lumber once, after you
    told me it was curedI don't do business twice with somebody that
    cheats me once
    "That must have been a mistake, MrI was green myself,
    just learning the lumber businessYou remember how it was those
    days
    The Yankees were breathing down our necks every waking minuteI
    was
    scared to death all the time Her eyes swam in unshed tears, and her
    very lightly rouged lips trembledShe was a small forlorn figureKennedy, was killed when the Yankees broke up a
    Klan
    meeting Colleton's direct, knowing gaze was disconcertingHis eyes
    were on a level with hers, and they were as hard as marbleScarlett
    took her hand off his sleeveWhat was she going to do? She couldn't
    fail, not in thisHe had to take the job"I made a deathbed promise
    to my dearest friend, Mrll Her tears were unplanned nowWilkes asked me to help, and now I'm asking you The whole
    story tumbled out-how Melanie had always sheltered AshleyAshley's
    ineptness as a businessman his attempt to bury himself with his
    wife
    the stacks of unsold lumber the need for secrecy Colleton
    held up his hand to stop h
    8:04 am
    @@@@@This cannot have taken you by surprise You
    @@@@@This cannot have taken you by surprise
    You must have observed his attentions; and though you always
    received them very properly (I have no accusation to make on
    that head), I never perceived them to be unpleasant to youI am
    half inclined to think, Fanny, that you do not quite know your own
    feelings
    “Oh yes, sir! indeed I doHis attentions were always—what I did
    not like
    Sir Thomas looked at her with deeper surprise“This is beyond
    me,” said he“This requires explanationYoung as you are, and
    274
    Mansfield Park
    having seen scarcely any one, it is hardly possible that your affections—”
    He paused and eyed her fixedlyHe saw her lips formed into a no,
    though the sound was inarticulate, but her face was like scarlet
    That, however, in so modest a girl, might be very compatible with
    innocence; and chusing at least to appear satisfied, he quickly added,
    “No, no, I know that is quite out of the question; quite impossible
    Well, there is nothing more to be said
    And for a few minutes he did say nothingHe was deep in thought
    His niece was deep in thought likewise, trying to harden and prepare
    herself against farther questioningShe would rather die than own
    the truth; and she hoped, by a little reflection, to fortify herself beyond
    betraying it
    “Independently of the interest which MrCrawford’s choice seemed
    to justify” said Sir Thomas, beginning again, and very composedly,
    “his wishing to marry at all so early is recommendatory to meI am
    an advocate for early marriages, where there are means in proportion,
    and would have every young man, with a sufficient income,
    settle as soon after four-and-twenty as he canThis is so much my
    opinion, that I am sorry to think how little likely my own eldest
    son, your cousin, MrBertram, is to marry early; but at present, as
    far as I can judge, matrimony makes no part of his plans or thoughts
    I wish he were more likely to fix Here was a glance at Fanny
    “Edmund, I consider, from his dispositions and habits, as much
    more likely to marry early than his brotherHe, indeed, I have lately
    thought, has seen the woman he could love, which, I am convinced,
    my eldest son has
    Friday, December 31st, 2010
    12:46 pm
    @@@@@ Tank Shirt returned, his thick arm around
    @@@@@
    Tank Shirt returned, his thick arm around the shoulders of a younger man in his early twenties,
    of medium height and with the physique of a large safe; he was wearing an American field jacket
    Jason started to get off the barstool“Sit, sit!” cried his new friend, leaning forward to be heard
    through the crowds and the music“I brought us a virgin
    “What?”
    “You forgot so quickly? He’s on his way to becoming a Legion recruit
    “Oh, that,” laughed Bourne, covering his gaffe“I wondered in a place like this—”
    “In a place like this,” broke in Tank Shirt, “half will take it or give it either way as long as it’s
    roughBut that’s neither here nor thereI thought he should talk to youHe’s American and his
    French is grotesque, but if you speak slow, he’ll catch on
    “No need to,” said Jason in faintly accented English“I grew up in Neufchatel, but I spent
    several years in the States
    “That’s nice to heah The American’s speech was distinctly Deep South, his smile genuine, his
    eyes wary but unafraid
    “Then let us start again,” said the Belgian in heavily accented EnglishMaurice,
    it’s as good a name as anyMy young friend here is Ralph, at least he says it isWhat’s yours, my
    wounded hero?”
    “Francois,” replied Jason, thinking of Bernardine and wondering briefly how he was doing at the
    airports“And I’m no hero; they died too quicklyOrder your drinks, I’m paying They did and
    Bourne did, his mind racing, trying to recall the little he knew about the French Foreign Legion“A
    lot has changed in nine years, Maurice How very easily the words came, thought the Chameleon
    “Why are you enlisting, Ralph?”
    “Ah figure it’s the wisest thing I can do—kinda disappear for a few years, and I understand five
    is the minimum
    “If you last the first, mon ami,” interjected the Belgia
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    Thursday, December 30th, 2010
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    Scarlett was tired of being told what she should and shouldn't do
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    Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
    12:38 pm
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    We looked at each other
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    8:03 am
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    “We boiled soup today,” Jamie announced“My eyes are still stinging
    Doc held up a pair of bright red hands
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    12:38 pm
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    Sunday, December 26th, 2010
    12:46 pm
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    8:03 am
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    He could not have chosen better; that was a topic to bring back her
    attention and her looks almost instantlyIt was a real indulgence to
    her to hear or to speak of MansfieldNow so long divided from
    everybody who knew the place, she felt it quite the voice of a friend
    when he mentioned it, and led the way to her fond exclamations in
    praise of its beauties and comforts, and by his honourable tribute to
    its inhabitants allowed her to gratify her own heart in the warmest
    eulogium, in speaking of her uncle as all that was clever and good,
    and her aunt as having the sweetest of all sweet tempers
    He had a great attachment to Mansfield himself; he said so; he
    looked forward with the hope of spending much, very much, of his
    time there; always there, or in the neighbourhoodHe particularly
    built upon a very happy summer and autumn there this year; he felt
    that it would be so: he depended upon it; a summer and autumn
    infinitely superior to the lastAs animated, as diversified, as social,
    but with circumstances of superiority undescribable
    “Mansfield, Sotherton, Thornton Lacey,” he continued; “what a
    society will be comprised in those houses! And at Michaelmas, perhaps,
    a fourth may be added: some small hunting-box in the vicin355
    Jane Austen
    ity of everything so dear; for as to any partnership in Thornton
    Lacey, as Edmund Bertram once good-humouredly proposed, I hope
    I foresee two objections: two fair, excellent, irresistible objections to
    that plan
    Fanny was doubly silenced here; though when the moment was
    passed, could regret that she had not forced herself into the acknowledged
    comprehension of one half of his meaning, and encouraged
    him to say something more of his sister and EdmundIt was a subject
    which she must learn to speak of, and the weakness that shrunk
    from it would soon be quite unpardonablePrice and his friend had seen all that they wished, or
    had time for, the others were ready to return; and in the course of
    their walk back, MrCrawford contrived a minute’s privacy for telling
    Fanny that his only business in Portsmouth was to see her; that
    he was come down for a couple of days on her account, and hers
    only, and because he could not endure a longer total separationShe
    was sorry, really sorry; and yet in spite of this and the two or three
    other things which she wished he had not said, she thought him
    altogether improved since she had seen him; he was much more
    gentle, obliging, and attentive to other people’s feelings than he had
    ever been at Mansfield; she had never seen him so agreeable—so
    near being agreeable; his behaviour to her father could not offend,
    and there was something particularly kind and proper in the notice
    he took of SusanHe was decidedly improvedShe wished the next
    day over, she wished he had come only for one day; but it was not so
    very bad as she would have expected: the pleasure of talking of
    Mansfield was so very great!
    Before they parted, she had to thank him for another pleasure,
    and one of no trivial kindHer father asked him to do them the
    honour of taking his mutton with them, and Fanny had time for
    only one thrill of horror, before he declared himself prevented by a
    prior engagementHe was engaged to dinner already both for that
    day and the next; he had met with some acquaintance at the Crown
    who would not be denied; he should have the honour, however, of
    waiting on them again on the morrow, etc and so they parted—
    Fanny in a state of actual felicity from escaping so horrible an evil!
    To have had him join their family dinner-party, and see all their
    356
    Mansfield Park
    deficiencies, would have been dreadful! Rebecca’s cookery and
    Rebecca’s waiting, and Betsey’s eating at table without restraint, and
    pulling everything about as she chose, were what Fanny herself was
    not yet enough inured to for her often to make a tolerable mealShe
    was nice only from natural delicacy, but he had been brought up in
    a school of luxury and epicurism
    357
    Jane Austen
    CHAPTER XLII
    THE PRICES were just setting off for church the next day when Mr
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    191
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