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    Monday, January 3rd, 2011
    2:38 am
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    I told him, he don't believe me(A thin seedy tiffany heart tag guy with a red pointed nose
    What's the story, Jack? Polack says
    Now, listen, I don't want to make any trouble, mister, I ain't lookin' for a fight, but my number came through, I just want to get my money
    Well, now hold on, Jackson, let's take a breat'He winks at the ownerYou don' vintage omega watches wanta be gettin' your balls in an uproar
    Listen, mister, all I want is the money572 it paid off, didn't it? Look here's the ticket(A couple of kids who have come in for candy are watching, and Polack grasps him by the arm
    Let's get in here and we'll talk it over(He slams the door Jimmy choo behind them Okay, ya won, Jack, and tomorrow the payoff comesWe got one guy to collect and one guy to pay offIt's a big outfit, Jackson, we got more than your ticket to worry about
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    How much ya put down?
    Three cents
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    2:28 am
    @@@@@They were so goddam poor they needed a guy
    @@@@@They were so goddam poor they needed a guy who could run things, he told himself nowHe remembered one of his father's cousins who had been a big shot in Rome, and had marched with Mussolini's army in 1922All through his childhood, Minetta had heard tales of those days"All a the young men, the patriotists, they fight with Mussolini in 'twenty-two," his father had told him, and he had dreamed of marching with them too, of being a hero
    Everything was mixed upHis mind could see no farther than his eyesHe was hemmed by the dense palpable mesh of the jungle"Aaah, that fuggin Mussolini," he said again, as if to relieve himself
    Goldstein was stirring beside him"Come on, it's our turn again
    Minetta lurched to his feet"Why the hell don't they give us a decent break? Jesus Christ, we just sat down He glared at Ridges, who was shouldering his way along the narrow ragged swath of the trail; nothing was left of his reverie but the resentment and fatigue that had initiated it
    "C'mon, M'netta," Ridges called back Without waiting for an answer, he plowed ahead to relieve the crew that had been laboringRidges was angry and perplexedHe had spent the rest period debating whether he would have time to clean his rifle, and he had decided he could never do the job properly in ten minutesThe rifle was wet and muddy, and would rust if he couldn't take care of it soonShoot, Ridges said to himself, a man never has time to do one thing, when they ain't cussin' for him to do somethin' elseHe felt pleasantly spiteful at the stupidity of the Army, and yet guilty tooHe was taking poor care of a valuable piece of property, which bothered his sense of honestyThe gov'ment give me that M-one 'cause they figgered Ah'd watch over it, an' Ah ain't doin' itThe rifle must be worth a hundred dollars, Ridges thought, and that was a vast sum to himAh gotta clean it, but what ifen they don't gimme time? It was too much for him to resolveHe sighed, picked up his machete, and began to wo
    Sunday, January 2nd, 2011
    2:38 am
    @@@@@ These men can work for the cousins Colum
    @@@@@
    These men can work for the cousins Colum opened his mouth, then
    closed itThere was no point in arguingAnd he was certain that
    Daniel would never moveColum called Scarlett down from the ladder
    she was on, inspecting fresh plaster, in midafternoon"I want you to
    see what your 'lazybones' have done," he saidScarlett was so
    overjoyed that tears came to her eyes
    There was a scythed and sickled path wide enough to drive the trap
    where she had ridden the pony beforeNow she could visit Kathleen
    again, and get milk for her tea and her oatmealShe'd felt too heavy
    to ride for the past week and more"I'll go this very minute," she
    said"Then let me lace up your boots
    "No, they press on my anklesI'll go barefoot, now that I've got a
    cart to ride in and a road to ride onYou can hitch up the pony,
    though
    Colum watched her drive off with a feeling of reliefHe back to his
    gate house and hisbooks, hispipe, and his glass of good whiskey with a
    sense of a reward well earnedScarlett 0 'Hara was the most
    exhausting individual of any gender, any age, any nationality he'd ever
    metAnd why, he wondered, does my mind always add "poor lamb"
    to
    every opinion I have of her? She looked like a poor lamb indeed when
    she burst in on him just before summer's late darkness fellThe
    family had-very kindly and very often-turned down her invitation and
    then her appeals to come to BallyharaColum had come to believe
    that
    Scarlett had become almost incapable of tearsShe had not cried
    when
    she'd received the notice of the divorce, nor even when the ultimate
    blow fell with the announcement that Rhett had married againBut on
    this warm rainy night in August, she sobbed and wept for hours, until
    she fell asleep on his comfortable couch, a luxury unknown in her
    Spartan two roomsHe covered her with a lightweight coverlet and
    went
    to hisbedroomHe was glad that she had found release for her grief,
    but he feared she would not see her outburst in the same lig
    2:28 am
    @@@@@He tossed the quilt onto her lap"I'll have
    @@@@@He tossed the quilt onto her
    lap"I'll have a fire started in a minute
    Scarlett dropped her torn pantalets on top of the soaked sweater and
    dried herself on the quiltIt was soft, and it felt goodShe
    wrapped it shawl-fashion then sat down again on the hard kitchen
    chair
    The quilt made an envelope for her feet on the floorShe was dry for
    the first time in hours, but she began to shiverRhett brought dry
    wood in from a box on the porch outside the kitchenIn a few
    minutes
    there was a small fire in the big fireplaceAlmost at once it bit
    into the teepee of logs and a tall orange burst of flame leapt into
    crackling lifeIt lit his brooding faceScarlett hobbled across the
    room to warm herself at the fire"Why don't you get out of your wet
    things, too, Rhett? I'll let you have the quilt to dry off on; it
    feels wonderful She dropped her eyes as if she were embarrassed by
    her boldnessHer thick lashes fluttered on her cheeksRhett did not
    respond"I'll just get soaked again when I go back out," he said
    "We're only a couple of miles from Fort Moultrie
    Rhett walked into the small pantry adjoining the kitchen"Bother Fort
    Moultrie!" Scarlett wished he'd stop rooting around in the pantry like
    thatHow could she talk to him when he was in another room? Rhett
    emerged with a bottle of whiskey in one hand"The shelves are pretty
    bare," he said with a brief smile, "but the necessities are there He
    opened a cupboard and took down two cups"Clean enough," he said
    "I'll pour us a dr
    Saturday, January 1st, 2011
    2:38 am
    @@@@@' That's when Dad shoved him out the
    @@@@@' That's
    when Dad shoved him out the door
    Jared nods absently, still studying“The beginning… the beginning… It has to mean
    something
    “Does it? They're just squiggles, JaredIt's not like a map–they don't even connect
    “There's something about the first one, thoughI could swear I've seen it
    somewhere before“Maybe he told Aunt MaggieMaybe she got better directions
    “Maybe,” he says, and continues to stare at Uncle Jeb's squiggles
    She dragged me back in time, to a much, much older memory–a memory that had escaped her
    for a long whileI was surprised to realize that she had only put these memories, the old and the
    fresh, together recentlyThat was why the lines had slipped through her careful
    control despite the fact that they were one of the most precious of her secrets–because of the
    urgency of her discovery
    In this blurry early memory, Melanie sat in her father's lap with the same album–not so tattered
    then–open in her handsHer hands were tiny, her fingers stubbyIt was very strange to
    remember being a child in this body
    They were on the first page
    “Do you remember where this is?” Dad asks, pointing to the old gray picture at the top of the
    pageThe paper looks thinner than the other photographs, as if it has worn down–flatter and
    flatter and flatter–since some great-great-grandpa took it
    “It's where we Stryders come from,” I answer, repeating what I've been taughtThat's the old Stryder ranchYou went there once, but I bet you don't remember itI
    think you were eighteen months old“It's been Stryder land since the very
    beginning”
    And then the memory of the picture it
    2:28 am
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    couple of mirrorsJacques released her hands and stood up“What are you talking about?”
    Marie picked up the Langley communiqué and scanned it“After several confused, even
    contradictory, accounts of what happened,” she said, “described by people on the scene at this
    armory, or whatever it is, the following is buried in the last paragraph‘Among the personal effects
    found on louis vuitton vernis the slain assassin’s body was a map of Brussels and the surrounding area with the town of
    Anderlecht circled in red Then it goes on to make the obvious connection with Teagarten’s
    assassinationIt’s a wash, Johnny, from two points of viewFirst, David would never carry such
    a mapSecond, and far more telling, the fact that the Soviet media would give such prominence to
    the story is unbelievable enough, but to include the assassination of prada milano General Teagarten is simply
    too much
    “What do you mean? Why?”
    “Because the presumed assassin was in Russia, and Moscow wants no conceivable linkage to the
    killing of a NATO commanderNo, Bro, someone bent the rules and persuaded Tass to put out
    the story, and I suspect heads will rollI don’t know where Jason Bourne is, but I know he’s not
    deadDavid made sure I’d know that
    Peter Holland picked up the phone and touched the buttons on chanel bag classic his console for Charles Casset’s
    private line
    “Yes?”
    “Charlie, it’s Peter
    “I’m relieved to hear that
    “Why?”
    “Because all I’m getting on this phone is trouble and confusionI just got off with our source in
    Dzerzhinsky Square and he told me the KGB’s after blood
    “The Tass release on Bourne?”
    “RightTass and Radio Moscow assumed the story was officially sanctioned because it was
    faxed by the Ministry of Information using the proper rolex oyster perpetual daytona immediate-release codesWhen the shit hit
    the fan, no one owned up, and whoever programmed the codes can’t be traced
    “What do you make of it?”
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    “I’m not sure, but from what I’ve learned about Dimitri Krupkin, it could be his styleHe’s now
    working with Alex and if this isn’t something out of the Conklin textbook, I don’t know Saint Alex
    “That dovetails with what Marie thinks
    “Marie?”
    “Bourne’s cartier must 21 wi
    Friday, December 31st, 2010
    2:38 am
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    "Wireman, will you put on coffee?" I asked
    "Do we have time?"
    "We'll have to make timeThere's stuff I need,
    but what I need first is to wake upYou guys can
    use a little fuel, too, maybeJack, help me with
    my boots, would you?"
    Wireman left for the kitchenJack knelt, eased on
    my boots, and tied them for me"How much do you
    know?" I asked Gucci Indy Bag him
    "More than I want to," he said"But I don't
    understand any of itI talked to that woman -
    Mary Ire? - at your show
    "Wireman called your wife while you were sleeping
    She wouldn't talk to him very long, so then he
    called some guy he met at your show - Mr
    Bozeman?"
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    fragmentary, and even that was no longer clear in
    my mind - the details were obscured by an image of
    Ilse's hair floating on the surface of an
    overflowing bathtubThat might or might not be
    accurate, but it was hellishly bright, hellishly
    particular, and it had blotted out almost
    everything elseBozeman said the police found no sign of
    forced ladies omega constellation entry, so they think your daughter must
    have let her in, even though it was the middle of
    the night-"
    "Or Mary just hit buzzers until somebody else let
    her in My missing arm itched"Then she walked up to
    Illy's apartment and rang the bellLet's say that
    she pretended to be someone else
    "Edgar, are you guessing, or-"
    "Let's say she pretended to omega planet ocean be from a gospel group
    called The Hummingbirds, and let's say she called
    through the door that something bad had happened
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    "Only she calls him Smiley, and that's the
    convincerSo was the floating Edgar
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    2:27 am
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    - you looked at Adriana and thought about hot
    afternoons in a haymow, you looked at these two
    and wondered if they were getting their schoolwork
    done - but they were pretty in a not-quite-there662
    yet way, and their excitement shone out in the
    picture
    Because, spread balenciaga city before them on the sand, was
    treasure
    "I can't make it all out, and the damn caption's
    blurry," I complained
    "There's a magnifying glass in the desk, but let
    me save you a headache Wireman picked up a pen
    and pointed with the tip"That's a medicine
    bottle, and that there is a musket-ball - or so
    Eastlake claims in the storyMaria's got her hand
    on chanel wholesale what appears to be a bootor the remains of
    oneNext to the boot-"
    "Pair of spectacles," I saida necklacechain?"
    "The story claims it's a bracelet
    All I could swear to is a metal loop of some kind,
    overgrown with crudBut the older girl's
    definitely holding out an earring
    I scanned the storyIn addition to the stuff on
    view, Eastlake had found spy bag fendi various eating utensils
    four cups he claimed were "Italianate"a box of gears (whatever that might
    mean)and nails without numberHe had also
    663
    found half a China ManNot a Chinaman; a China
    ManIt wasn't pictured, at least not that I could
    seeThe story said Eastlake had been diving on
    the eroded reefs west of Duma Key for fifteen
    years, replica prada sometimes to fish, often just to relaxHe
    said he had found all sorts of litter, but nothing
    of interestHe said that the Alice (he called it
    that) had generated some remarkably big waves, and
    they must have shifted the sand inside the reef
    just enough to reveal what he called "a dumping
    field
    "He doesn't call it a wreck," I said
    "It wasn't," Wireman Jimmy choo
    Thursday, December 30th, 2010
    2:38 am
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    The Crawfords, without wanting to be cured, were very willing to
    stayMary was satisfied with the Parsonage as a present home, and
    Henry equally ready to lengthen his visitHe had come, intending
    to spend only a few days with them; but Mansfield promised well,
    and there was nothing to call him elsewhereGrant
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    Jane Austen
    to keep them both with her, and DrGrant was exceedingly well
    contented to have it so: a talking pretty young woman like Miss
    Crawford is always pleasant society to an indolent, stay-at-home
    man; and MrCrawford’s being his guest was an excuse for drinking
    claret every day
    The Miss Bertrams’ admiration of MrCrawford was tiffany cross more rapturous
    than anything which Miss Crawford’s habits made her likely
    to feelShe acknowledged, however, that the MrBertrams were
    very fine young men, that two such young men were not often seen
    together even in London, and that their manners, particularly those
    of the eldest, were very goodHe had been much in London, and
    had more liveliness and gallantry than Edmund, and must, therefore,
    be preferred; and, indeed, his being the eldest was another
    strong claimShe had felt an early presentiment that she should like
    the eldest bestShe knew it was her way
    Tom Bertram must have been thought pleasant, indeed, at any
    rate; he was the sort of young man to be generally liked, prada bag his agreeableness
    was of the kind to be oftener found agreeable than some
    endowments of a higher stamp, for he had easy manners, excellent
    spirits, a large acquaintance, and a great deal to say; and the reversion
    of Mansfield Park, and a baronetcy, did no harm to all this
    Miss Crawford soon felt that he and his situation might doShe
    looked about her with due consideration, and found almost everything
    in his favour: a park, a real park, five miles round, a spacious
    modern-built house, so well placed and well screened as to deserve
    to be in any collection of engravings of gentlemen’s seats in the
    kingdom, and wanting only to be completely new furnished—pleasant
    sisters, a quiet omega planet ocean mother, and an agreeable man himself—with the
    advantage of being tied up from much gaming at present by a promise
    to his father, and of being Sir Thomas hereafterIt might do very
    well; she believed she should accept him; and she began accordingly
    to interest herself a little about the horse which he had to run at the
    B——— races
    These races were to call him away not long after their acquaintance
    began; and as it appeared that the family did not, from his
    usual goings on, expect him back again for many weeks, it would
    bring his passion to an early proofMuch was said on his side to
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    Mansfield Park
    induce her to attend the races, and schemes were made for a large
    party to gucci watch bangle them, with all the eagerness of inclination, but it would
    only do to be talked of
    And Fanny, what was she doing and thinking all this while? and
    what was her opinion of the newcomers? Few young ladies of eighteen
    could be less called on to speak their opinion than FannyIn a
    quiet way, very little attended to, she paid her tribute of admiration
    to Miss Crawford’s beauty; but as she still continued to think Mr
    Crawford very plain, in spite of her two cousins having repeatedly
    proved the contrary, she never mentioned himThe notice, which
    she excited herself, was to this effect“I begin now to understand
    you all, except Miss Price,” said Miss Crawford, as she was walking
    with the omega seamaster watch
    2:27 am
    @@@@@That weak and needy part of their soul is
    @@@@@That weak and needy part of their soul is actually screaming louderThey don't want to lose the big houses, the cars, the high life that money has bought themThey worry about what their friends would say if they lost all their moneyMany are emotionally desperate and neurotic, although they look rich and have more money
    "So is a poor man happier?" I asked
    "No, I don't think so," replied rich dad"The avoidance of money is just as psychotic as being attached to money
    As if on cue, the town derelict went past our table, stopping by the large rubbish can and rummaging around in itThe three of us watched him with great interest, when before we probably would have just ignored him
    Rich dad pulled a dollar out of his wallet and gestured to the older manSeeing the money, the derelict came over immediately, took the bill, thanked rich dad profusely and hurried off ecstatic with his good fortune
    "He's not much different from most of my employees," said rich dad"I've met so many people who say, `Oh, I'm not interested in money' Yet they'll work at a job for eight hours a dayThat's a denial of truthIf they weren't interested in money, then why are they working? That kind of thinking is probably more psychotic than a person who hoards money
    As I sat there listening to my rich dad, my mind was flashing back to the countless times my own dad said, "I'm not interested in money He said those words oftenHe also covered himself by always saying, "I work because I love my job
    "So what do we do?" I asked"Not work for money until all traces of fear and greed are gone?"
    "No, that would be a waste of time," said rich dad"Emotions are what make us humanThe word `emotion' stands for energy in motionBe truthful about your emotions, and use your mind and emotions in your favor, not against yourself
    "Don't worry about what I just said
    Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
    2:38 am
    @@@@@They moved forward with a dumb blistering
    @@@@@They moved forward with a dumb blistering hatred for the man who led them
    Croft was almost as exhausted; by now he appreciated the breaks as much as they did, was almost as willing to allow each halt to drag out to double its intended lengthHe had forgotten the peak of the mountain, he wanted to quit too, and each time a break ended he fought a quick battle with himself, exposed himself to all the temptations of rest, and then continuedHe moved on because somewhere at the base of his mind was the directive that climbing this mountain was necessaryHis decision had been made in the valley, and it lay as an iron warp in his mindHe could have turned back no more easily than he could have killed himself
    All through the afternoon they straggled forward, toiling up the gentler slopes, proceeding from rock to rock when the walls of the mountain became sheererThey traveled from one ridge to another, stumbled painfully along the slanting inclines of minor knolls, slipped and fell many times when they passed over swatches of moist clayThe mountain seemed eternally to rear above themThey glimpsed its upper slopes through the fog of their effort, followed one another up the unending serpentines, and plodded along gratefully whenever their route was level for a time
    Minetta and Wyman and Roth were the most wretchedFor several hours they had been at the tail of the column, keeping up to the men ahead with the greatest difficulty, and there was a bond between the three of themMinetta and Wyman felt sorry for Roth, liked him because he was even more helpless than theyAnd Roth looked to them for support, knew in the knowledge of fatigue that they would not scorn him because they were only a little less prostrated than he
    He was making the most intense effort of his lifeAll the weeks and months Roth had been in the platoon he had absorbed each insult, each reproof with more and more painInstead of becoming indifferent or erecting a protective shell, he had become more sensitiveThe patrol had keyed him to the point where he could not bear any more abuse, and he drove himself onward now with the knowledge that if he halted for too long the wrath and ridicule of the platoon would come down upon him
    But, even with this, he was breakingThere came a point where his legs would no longer functionEven when he stood still they were close to buckling under himToward the end of the afternoon he began to collapseIt was a slow process, dragging out through a series of pratfalls, a progression of stumbling and sliding and finally of dropping prostrateHe began to tumble every few hundred feet and the men in the platoon waited gratefully while he forced himself slowly to his feet, and staggered on againBut each fall came a little more quickly than the one that had preceded it
    2:27 am
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    They followed in reverse the route of their retreat, moving quickly without any attempt at concealment except when they crossed a ridgeThe country was dotted with groves of bushes and trees, but they gave them only a cursory examinationCroft was certain Wilson had been wounded in the ambush, and hadn't left the louis vuitton multicolore field
    It took them less than half an hour to reach the ledge, and they advanced toward it stealthily, crouching close to the groundThere seemed no one about, no sound at allCroft bellied forward over the rock slab, raised his head slowly, and searched the fieldHe could see nothing, and in the grove at the other end of the watches gucci field, nothing seemed to be stirring
    "Goddam, goddam sonofabitching belly
    The men stiffened at the soundSomeone was moaning only ten or twenty yards away
    Croft stared into the grass"Ohhhh, that mother-fuggin The voice trailed off in a babble of curses
    He slid down from the ledge, and joined the others, who waited gucci ladies watch for him nervously, their rifles unslung"I think it's Wilson He worked over to the left, slid up the broad flat slab of the ledge again, and dropped from it into the grassIn a few seconds he found Wilson, turned him over gently"He's hit, all right Croft stared at him with a mild pity, mixed with a trace of disgustIf a man mulberry bag gets wounded, it's his own goddam fault, Croft thought
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    Monday, December 27th, 2010
    2:38 am
    @@@@@ Then she gave the baby to Scarlett"I
    @@@@@ Then she gave the baby to Scarlett"I will
    call her 'Dara' in my memory
    I am grateful for the gift of seeing her, and for your thanksBut do
    not bring her againIt is not wise for her to have aught to do with
    meSomeone is coming and you should not be seen
    No, the path the other takes is not yoursIt is the one from the
    north used by foolish women who buy potions for love or beauty or
    harm
    to those they hate Scarlett was glad to
    obey
    She plodded doggedly through the cold rain that had begun to fall
    Her
    head and back were bent to protect her baby from harm
    Cat made sucking noises beneath the shelter of Scarlett's cloakFitzpatrick eyed the wet cloak on the floor by the fire, but she
    made no comment"Miss Piles seems to have a nice light hand with a
    batter," she said"I've brought scones with your tea
    "Good, I'm starving She'd fed Cat and had a nap and the sun was
    shining againScarlett was confident now that the walk had done her
    a
    world of goodShe wouldn't take no for an answer the next time she
    wanted to go outFitz didn't attempt to stop her
    She recognized futility when she met itWhen Colum came home
    Scarlett
    walked down to his house for tea"I want to buy a small
    closed buggy, ColumIt's too cold to go around in the trap, and I
    need to do thingsWill you pick one out for me?" He'd be willing,
    said Colum, but she could do her own choosing if she'd pref
    2:28 am
    @@@@@Today would be a good day, she was sure of
    @@@@@Today would be a good day, she was sure of it-in
    spite of her grandfather's birthday party"Walk up, Pansy," she said
    automatically, "don't drag along like a turtle," and she set off at a
    brisk pace along the packed sand-and-shell sidewalkThe sound of
    hammering and men's voices shouting at the Cathedral building
    carried
    clearly through the still, sunlit airScarlett wished for a moment
    that the priest would take her on another tour of the siteBut that
    wasn't what she was here forShe turned into the gate of the
    convent
    The same elderly nun answered the doorbell
    Scarlett readied herself for combatBut, "The Mother Superior is
    expecting you," said the nun"If you'll follow me Scarlett was almost
    dazed when she left the convent ten minutes laterIt had been so
    easy! The Mother Superior agreed at once to talk to the Bishop
    She'd
    send word, she said, very soonNo, she couldn't say just when that
    would be, but certainly within a short timeShe herself would be
    returning to Charleston the following week
    Scarlett was euphoricHer smile and her eyes were so bright that the
    grocer in the small shop on Abercorn Street nearly forgot to charge
    her
    for the bow-bedecked box of chocolate candies she selected for her
    grandfather's birthday presentHer high spirits carried her through
    the final preparations for the birthday dinner that engulfed her when
    she got back to the Robillard houseThey began to dim slightly when
    she learned that her grandfather would actually come to table for the
    six courses of his particularly favorite foodsHer spirits plummeted
    when the aunts informed her that she wasn't allowed to eat many of
    the
    delicacies that would be served"Flesh is forbidden during Lent,"
    said Pauline sternly"Be certain that no gravy touches the rice or
    vegetables you eat
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    xiv
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