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    Monday, January 3rd, 2011
    6:30 am
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    And now there were the beginnings of resentmentThe General's point was clear enoughHe was an officer, and in functioning as an officer for a long enough time he would assume, whether he wanted to or not, the emotional prejudices of his classThe General was reminding him that he belonged to that classHe remembered Cummings's pale baleful eyes staring at him blankly, and then the inexplicable wink"Have to keep you happy, Robert It was a little clearer nowHearn had known ever since he had been with the General that if he wanted to he could easily rise to a field officer's rank by the end of the warAnd there was an ambition in him which responded to that, an ambition he distrustedCummings recognized it, Cummings had effectively told him then that if he wanted to, if he was strong enough to overcome the distastes and prejudices he felt toward officers, he could satisfy that ambition
    Understand your class and work within its limitsMarxist lesson with a reverse twist
    It disturbed Hearn deeplyHe had been born in the aristocracy of the wealthy midwestern family, and although he had broken with them, had assumed ideas and concepts repugnant to them, he had never really discarded the emotional luggage of his first eighteen yearsThe guilts he made himself feel, the injustices that angered him were never genuineHe kept the sore alive by continually rubbing it, and he knew itHe knew also at this moment that out of all the reasons why he had begun to quarrel with Conn in officers' mess, one of the vital ones had been that he was afraid of not really caring enough about what Conn was sayingIt was true of too many of his reactionsAnd since his direct self-interest could only move him back toward the ideas of his father, there was no other direction for him to turn, unless there was some other emotional basis for continuing in his particular isolated position on the LeftFor a long time he had thought there was one, for even a longer period he had sustained his politics because his friends and acquaintances in New York assumed them as a matter of course, but now in the isolation of the Army, under the searching critique of the General's mind, his fingers were being pulled from the chinning bar
    He walked back to the recreation tent and went insideRafferty had filled the lamps and lit them, and already the evening influx of officers had begunTwo card games had been started, and several of the officers were beginning to use the writing tables
    "Hey, Hearn, you want to come in on some poker?" It was Mantelli, one of Hearn's few friends in the headquarters Hearn pulled up a cha
    Sunday, January 2nd, 2011
    6:30 am
    @@@@@The house roof had fresh patchesJim
    @@@@@The house roof had
    fresh patchesJim Tarleton looked old, his share was white, but he'd
    brought in a good cotton crop with the help of his one-armed son-inlaw,
    Hetty's husbandThe other three girls were frankly old maids"Of
    course we're miserably depressed about it day and night," said
    Miranda,
    and they all laughedScarlett didn't understand them at allThe
    Tarletons could laugh about anything
    Maybe it was connected in some way with having red hairThe twinge
    of
    envy she felt was nothing newShe'd always wished that she could be
    part of a family that was as affectionate and teasing as the Tarletons,
    but she stifled the envyIt was disloyal to her motherShe stayed
    too long-being with them was so much fun-she'd have to visit the
    Fontaines tomorrowIt was nearly dark when she got back to Tara
    She
    could hear Suellen's youngest wailing for something even before she
    got
    the door openIt was definitely time to go back to AtlantaBut
    there was news that changed her mind at onceSuellen scooped up
    the
    squalling child and shushed it just as Scarlett walked through the
    doorIn spite of her bedraggled hair and misshapen body Suellen
    looked prettier than she ever had as a girl"Oh, Scarlett," she
    exclaimed"There's such excitement, you'll never guess Hush,
    now,
    honey, you'll have a nice piece of bone with your supper and you can
    chew that mean old tooth right through so it won't hurt any more If
    a new tooth is the exciting news, I don't want to even try and guess,
    Scarlett felt like sayingBut Suellen didn't give her a chance
    "Tony's home!"
    Suellen said"Sally Fontaine rode over to tell us; you just missed
    herTony's back! Safe and s
    Saturday, January 1st, 2011
    6:30 am
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    “That’s outrageous!”
    “Then turn me downYou come back, it’s seven-fifty; and if you come back again, it’s double
    that
    “What guarantee do we have that you can even find him? You heard DeSoleHe’s Four Zero,
    which means he’s out of reach, buried
    “Oh, we’ll dig him up just so we can replant him
    “How? Two and a half million is a lot to pay on your wordHow?”
    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
    179
    Again smiling, the Mafia supremo reached into his pocket and pulled out the small notebook
    Steven DeSole had returned to him“Close friends are the best sources, AlbyAsk the sleazes who
    write all those gossip books
    “You won’t get near themYou think you’re dealing with old Chicago and the animals? With Mad Dog
    Capone and Nitti, the nervous fingerWe got sophisticated people on the payroll these daysScientists, electronics whiz kids—doctorsBy the time we get finished with the spook
    and the yid, they won’t know what happenedBut we’ll have Jason Bourne, the character who
    doesn’t exist because he’s already dead
    Albert Armbruster nodded once and turned to the window in silence
    “I’ll close up for six months, change the name, then start a promotional campaign in the
    magazines before reopening,” said John StJacques, standing by the window as the doctor worked
    on his brother-in-law
    “There’s no one left?” asked Bourne, wincing as he sat in a chair dressed in a bathrobe, the last
    suture on his neck being pinceredSeven crazy Canadian couples, including my old buddy, who’s needlepointing
    your throat at the momentWould you believe they wanted to start up a brigade, Renfrews of the
    Mounties, after the evil people
    “That was Scotty’s idea,” interrupted the doctor softly, concentrating on the wound
    “So’s he but he doesn’t know itThen he wanted to advertise a reward to the tune of a hundred
    thousand for information leading to the et cetera! I finally convinced him that the less said the
    better
    “Nothing said is the best,” added Jason
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    Jack came back from the guest room and sat on the
    arm of the couch - the perch, I thought, of a
    young man who wants to be gone"You've got all
    your basic staples," he said, "plus salad-in-a-bag,
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    He laughed"There's a little pantry with all
    kinds of canned shiThe cable's hooked
    up, the computer's Internet-ready - I got you Wi-
    Fi, costs a little extra, but it's way cool - and
    I can get satellite installed if you want itHe was a good kid, but I wanted
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    it wouldn't remember a minute laterAnd I wanted
    to listen to the house, see if it had anything to
    sayI had an idea maybe it did
    "The keys're in an envelope on the kitchen table -
    car keys, too - and a list of numbers you might
    need are on the fridgeI've got classes at FSU in
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    carrying my cell, and I'll be Cartier Tortue coming by Tuesdays
    and Thursdays at five unless we make a different
    arrangement I reached in my pocket and brought out my
    money-clip"I want to give you a little extraThis is a sweet gig, MrGood pay and good hoursI'd feel like
    a hound taking any extra
    77
    That made me laugh, and I put my dough back in my
    pocket
    "Maybe you ought to take a nap," he said, getting
    up It was odd to be birkin hermes treated like
    Grandpa Walton, but I supposed I'd better get used
    to it"What happened to the other house at the
    north end of Casey Key?"
    "Huh?"
    "You said one went into the drinkWhat happened
    to the other one?"
    "Far as I know, it's still thereAlthough if a
    big storm like Charley ever hits this part of the
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    “Jealous, O'Shea?”
    “Actually… I am Ian's voice was strained“How would you know that?”
    Now Jared hesitated“It was… sort of an experiment
    “Anexperiment? ”
    “It didn't go the way I thought it would I could hear that he was grinning at
    the memory, and I could see, in my head, replica gucci the little lines fanning out around his eyes
    “Melanie… punched… you?”
    “It sure wasn't WandaYou should have seen her face What? Hey, Ian, easy, man!”
    “Did you think for one moment what that must have done to her?” Ian hissed
    “Mel?”
    “No, you fool, Wanda!”
    “Done toWanda? ” Jared Cartier Tortue asked, sounding bewildered by the idea
    “Oh, get out of hereStay away from me for a few hours
    Ian didn't give him a chance to answerHe yanked the door out of his way–roughly but very
    quietly–and then slid into his room and put the door back in its place
    He turned and met my vintage omega seamaster gazeFrom his expression, he was surprised to find me awakeSurprised
    and chagrinedThe fire in his eyes blazed and then slowly dimmed
    He cocked his head to one side, listeningI listened, too, but Jared's retreat made no soundIan
    waited for another moment, then sighed and plunked down gucci women watch on the edge of his mattress, across
    from me
    “I guess we weren't as quiet as I thought,” he said
    “Sound carries in these caves,” I whispered“So…” he finally said“What do you think?”
    CHAPTER 38
    Touched
    What do I think about what?”
    “About our… discussion out there,” Ian gold gucci watch clarifi
    Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
    6:30 am
    @@@@@ Gallagher swayed back and forth
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    Gallagher swayed back and forth drunkenly"Who did? Who the fug did? Wilson, you're a goddam liarYou stole all the souvenirs
    Wilson ignored him"It's a damn shame's all Ah can say when a bunch of men like us is risking our ass for a whole goddam week, and they ain't even any souvenirs left His voice trailed off bitterly"Goddam shame," he repeated to himself
    Martinez prodded with his shoe the genitals of the charred corpseThe genitals collapsed with a small crispy sound as if he had stuck his finger into a coil of cigar ashHe felt a trace of pleasure, which was lost in the gloominess he now feltThis liquor had made him despondent and the walk had intensified this; he felt no horror nor any fear at the bodies; his own terror of death had no relation to the smells and the cruel shapes into which physical death could force a bodyHe could not have said why he was gloomy, but he had to fasten it upon somethingHe resented the money he had spent for the whisky, and for the past half hour he had been trying to calculate how long it would take him to replace that money with his pay
    Red leaned against the half-trackHe was feeling dizzy and he extended his arm over the metal tread guardHis hand closed on a piece of pulpy fruit and he dropped it hastilyThe fruit was red and looked like a pear, but he had never seen anything like it before"Where the hell this come from?" he asked thickly
    "That's Jap food," Wilson said
    "Where'd they get it?"
    "Ah don' know," Wilson shruggedA touch of fear penetrated through Red's drunkennessFor an instant he thought of Hennessey"Well, Wilson, where the fug is the souvenirs?" he asked bitterly
    "Men, you jus' got to follow me," Wilson said
    They wandered away from the vehicles and made a little exploration off the side of the road on the ridge where the Japanese had entrenched themselve
    Monday, December 27th, 2010
    6:30 am
    @@@@@A front-page headline caught her
    @@@@@A front-page headline caught her eye
    CARNIVAL TO CONCLUDE WITH MASQUERADE BALLThat must be
    what the old
    dragon and Maybelle were talking about, she thoughtEveryone in the
    world except me is going to wonderful partiesShe snatched the
    paper
    up again to read the article: It can now be announced, planning and
    preparations being complete, that Atlanta will be graced on January
    6th
    next with a Carnival sure to rival the magnificence of New Orleans'
    famous Mardi GrasThe Twelfth Night Revelers is a body lately
    formed
    by our city's leading figures from the worlds of society and business,
    and the instigators of this fabulous eventThe King of Carnival will
    reign over Atlanta, attended by a Court of Noblemen
    He will enter the city and transverse it on a royal float in a parade
    that is expected to exceed a mile in lengthAll the city's citizens,
    his subjects for the day, are invited to view the parade and marvel at
    its wondersSchedule and parade route will be announced in a later
    edition of this newspaperThe day-long revels will conclude at a
    Masked Ball for which DeGives Opera House will be transformed into a
    veritable WonderlandThe Revelers have distributed almost three
    hundred invitations to Atlanta's finest Knights and fairest Ladies"Damn!" said ScarlettThen desolation took hold of her, and she
    began to cry like a childIt wasn't fair for Rhett to be dancing and
    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
    She'd never done anything bad enough to deserve such punishment
    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;
    somehow
    she'd find a wayIt was not impossible to get an invitation to the
    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 BallShe sent Willie
    Kershaw with the money to enter Kennedy's Emporium in the parad
    Sunday, December 26th, 2010
    6:30 am
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    9:05 AM
    December 23
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    Ian threw an bags dolce gabbana anxious glance at Jeb
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    Jeb had his poker face on
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    Thursday, December 23rd, 2010
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    The streetcars of all four City Railway lines were diverted to the
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    Guggenheim
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    from
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    "You mean there's betting?"
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    Rhett laughedHe tucked folded banknotes into his mother's reticule,
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    Saturday, December 18th, 2010
    6:30 am
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