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    Monday, January 3rd, 2011
    3:03 am
    @@@@@ “Bernardine’s offered to help‘Whatever you
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    “Bernardine’s offered to help‘Whatever you need,’ those were his words
    “Bernardine’s limitedLike me, he can call in debts, but without access to the machine he’s too
    restricted
    “Did you tell Holland I’m writing down everything I know, every statement that was made to
    me, every answer to every question I asked?”
    “Are you?”
    “I willHe wants to question you; he says he can’t question pages of paper
    “I’m too close to the Jackal! I won’t do itHe’s an unreasonable son of a bitch!”
    “I think he wanted to be reasonable,” said Conklin“He knows what you’re going through, what
    you’ve been through, but after seven o’clock last night he closed the doors
    “Why?”
    “Armbruster was shot to death outside his houseThey’re calling it a Georgetown robbery,
    which, of course, it isn’t and wasn’t
    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
    196
    “Oh, Jesus!”
    “There are a couple of other things you ought to knowTo begin with, we’re releasing Swayne’s
    ‘suicide ”
    “For God’s sake, why?”
    “To let whoever killed him think he’s off the hook, and, more important, to see who shows up
    during the next week or so
    “At the funeral?”
    “No, that’s a ‘closed family affair,’ no guests, no formal ceremony
    “Then who’s going to show up where?
    “At the estate, in one form or anotherWe checked with Swayne’s attorney, very officially, of
    course, and he confirmed what Swayne’s wife told you about his leaving the whole place to a
    foundation
    “Which one?” asked Bourne
    “One you’ve never heard of, funded privately a few years ago by wealthy close friends of the
    august ‘wealthy’ generalIt’s as touching as can beIt goes under the title of the Soldiers, Sailors
    and Marines Retreat; the board of directors is already in place
    “Or their surrogates
    “Alex, what about the names I gave you, the six or seven names Flannagan gave me? And that
    slew of license plate numbers from their meetings?”
    “Cute, real cute,” said Conklin enigmatically
    “What’s cute?”
    “Take the names—they’re the dregs of the wing-ding social set, no relation to the Georgetown
    upper crustThey’re out of the National Enquirer, not The Washington P
    Sunday, January 2nd, 2011
    3:03 am
    @@@@@Even with the last light striking across my
    @@@@@Even with the last light
    striking across my easel, I couldn't get a good
    look at what I'd doneI got up, limped around the
    treadmill to the switch by the door, and flipped
    on the overheadThen I went back, turned the
    easel, and caught my breath
    The sophora bracelet seemed to rear over the
    horizon-line like the tentacle of a sea creature
    big enough to swallow a supertankerThe single
    yellow blossom could have been an alien eyeMore
    important to me, it had somehow given the sunset
    back the truth of its ordinary I-do-this-everynight
    beauty
    That picture I set asideThen I went downstairs,
    microwaved a Hungry Man fried chicken dinner, and
    ate it right down to the bottom of the box
    112
    v
    The following night I lined the sunset with
    bundles of witchgrass, and the brilliant orange
    shining through the green turned the horizon into
    a forest fireThe night after that I tried palm
    trees, but that was no good, that one was another
    cliché, I could almost see hula-hula girls and
    hear ukes strummingNext I put a big old conch
    shell on the horizon with the sunset firing off
    around it like a corona, and the result was - to
    me, at least - almost unbearably creepyThat one
    I turned to the wall, thinking when I looked at it
    the next day it would have lost its magic, but it
    hadn't
    I snapped a picture of it with my digital camera,
    and attached it to an e-mailIt prompted the
    following exchange, which I printed out and stowed
    in a folder:
    EFree19 to KamenDoc
    10:14 AM
    December 9
    113
    Kamen: I told you I was drawing pictures again
    This is your fault, so the least you can do is
    look at the attached and tell me what you think
    The view is from my place down hereDo not spare
    my feelings
    Edgar
    KamenDoc to EFree19
    12:09 PM
    December 9
    Edgar: I think you are getting betterIn truth the picture is amazingLike an
    undiscovered DalíYou have clearly found
    somethingHow big is it?
    EFree19 to KamenDoc
    1:13 PM
    December 9
    114
    Don't know
    EF
    KamenDoc to EFree19
    1:22 P
    M December 9
    Then MINE IT!
    Kamen
    Two days later, when Jack came by to ask if I
    wanted to run errands, I said I wanted to go to a
    bookstore and buy a book of Salman Dalí's art"I think you mean Salvador Dalí," he
    said"Unless you're thinking about the guy who
    wrote the book that got him in so much hot wa
    Saturday, January 1st, 2011
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    “I'm not sureI made her be quiet… but she always comes back… always before… I can't hear
    her now… and Jamie…”
    “She's gone?” Muted agony in his voice“Why does Ian think I have to kiss you?”
    “Not kissme, ” I said, my voice so faint I could barely hear it myselfNothing tiffany's jewelry upset
    her more than when you kissed us… beforeNothing pulled her to the surface like thatI'll try to find her myself
    I still had my eyes on his feet, so I saw him step toward me
    “You think, if I kiss her… ?”
    I couldn't even nod
    Familiar hands brushed my neck, tracing down either side to my shouldersMy heart louis vuitton pink thudded
    loud enough that I wondered if he could hear it
    I was so embarrassed, forcing him to touch me this wayWhat if he thought it was a trick–my
    idea, not Ian's?
    I wondered if Ian was still there, watchingHow much would this hurt him?
    One hand continued, as I knew it would, down my arm to my wrist, leaving replica gucci a trail of fire
    behind itThe other cupped beneath my jaw, as I knew it must, and pulled my face up
    His cheek pressed against mine, the skin burning where we were connected, and he whispered
    in my ear
    His cheek slowly slid back, and his chin tilted to the side so that his mouth covered mine
    Hetried to kiss tiffany price me softlyI could tell that he triedBut his intentions went up in smoke, just like
    before
    There was fireeverywhere, becausehe was everywhereHis hands traced my skin, burning it
    His lips tasted every inch of my faceThe rock wall slammed into my back, but there was no
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    Friday, December 31st, 2010
    3:03 am
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    "Mary wasn't very big," Gallagher saidThe word "dead" formed for him, and because it now had only one meaning to him, he saw Mary quivering and twitching like the Japanese soldier who had been killed in the drawHe began to shiver uncontrollablyThe word had no senseHe sat there very numb; his thoughts had retreated into some deep louis vuitton logo secure closet of his mind and the words of the chaplain fell abstractly on the anesthetized surface of his brainFor a few seconds he felt as if he were hearing a story about someone else in which he was not very interestedOddly, the only thing he told himself was that he had to look alert to impress the chaplain"Ohhhhhh," he said at last
    "The information they gave me was very slight, but I'll hermes replica give you the details when I hear them, sonIt's terribly hard to be so far away from home, and be unable to see your beloved ones for a last time
    "Yeah, it's hard, Father," Gallagher said automaticallyLike the rising of the dawn, Gallagher was slowly becoming able to distinguish the objects about him, and understand the news he had heardHis mind was telling him something bad had happened, and he motorcycle balenciaga thought, I hope Mary don't worry over the newsHe realized suddenly that Mary would not be worrying, and before the contradiction, he retreated; he gazed dully at the wood of the chair upon which the chaplain was sittingHe felt as if he were in a church, and mechanically he looked at his hands and tried to assume a serious expressionIt's not without meaning that your child was savedIf you wish, I'll louis vuitton duffle bag inquire for you as to who will take care of herPerhaps we can arrange a furlough for you
    Gallagher's spirits roseHe would be seeing his wifeBut Mary was dead; this time his mind did not retreat quite so farHe sat there thinking of how pleasant the sunlight had been that morning as he climbed on the truck, and dumbly he understood that he wanted to go back to that moment
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    Thursday, December 30th, 2010
    3:03 am
    @@@@@Her mother was our sister Ellen, and she's
    @@@@@Her mother was our sister Ellen, and
    she's married to Eleanor Butler's boy, Rhett
    The old gentleman bowed and kissed Scarlett's hand, the lady
    introduced
    her grandson, who gazed at Scarlett as if he had been struck by
    lightningFor Scarlett the day was getting better with every passing
    minuteThen she saw that the next walkers approaching them were
    men
    in blue uniformsHer step faltered, she grabbed Pauline's arm
    "Auntie," she whispered, "there are Yankee soldiers coming at us
    "Keep walking," said Pauline clearly
    "They'll have to get out of our way Scarlett looked at Pauline with
    shockWho would have thought that her skinny old aunt could be so
    brave? Her own heart was thumping so loud that she was sure the
    Yankee
    soldiers would hear it, but she willed her feet to move
    When only three paces separated them, the soldiers drew aside,
    pressing
    their bodies against the railings of metal pipe that lined the edge of
    the walkway along the waterPauline and Eulalie sailed past them as
    if they were not thereScarlett lifted her chin to equal the tilt of
    her aunts' and kept paceSomewhere ahead of them a band began to
    play
    "Oh! Susanna The rollicking, merry tune was as bright and sunny as
    the dayEulalie and Pauline walked more quickly, keeping time with
    the music, but Scarlett's feet felt like leadCoward! she berated
    herselfBut inside she couldn't stop trembling"Why are there so
    many damned Yankees in Charleston?" she asked angrily"I saw
    some at
    the depot, too
    "My goodness, Scarlett," said Eulalie, "didn't you know? Charleston is
    still under military occupationThey'll likely never leave us
    alone
    They hate us because we threw them out of Fort Sumter and then held
    it
    against their whole fleet
    "And heaven only knows how many regiments," Pauline addedú The
    sisters' faces were glowing with prid
    Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
    3:03 am
    @@@@@and he would not be duped by outright false
    @@@@@and
    he would not be duped by outright false or convoluted informationThe Jackal’s man was
    protecting two turfs—his own and his mentor’sThe Chameleon had only one option open: to
    expose a part of the truth so dangerous as to be credible, the ring of authenticity so plausible that
    the risk of rejecting it was unacceptableJason put the ice bag on the tray and spoke slowly from
    the shadows of the large couch
    “Obviously I don’t care to die for a client or be tortured to protect his information, so I’ll tell
    you what I know, which isn’t as much as I’d like under the present circumstancesI’ll take your
    points in order if I’m not too damned frightened to forget the sequenceTo begin with, the funds
    are not available to me personallyI meet with a man in London to whom I deliver the information,
    and he releases an account in Bern, Switzerland, to a name and a number—any name, any
    number—that I give himWe’ll skip over my life and the ‘excruciating pain’—I’ve answered
    bothLet’s see, what do I know about a blackbird? The Coeur du Soldat is part of that question,
    incidentallyI was told that an old man—name and nationality unknown, at least to me, but I
    suspect French—approached a well-known public figure and told him he was the target of an
    assassinationWho believes a drunken old man, especially one with a long police record looking
    for a reward? Unfortunately the assassination took place, but fortunately an aide to the deceased
    was by his side when the old man warned himEven more fortunate, the aide was and is extremely
    close to my client and the assassination was a welcome event to bothThe aide secretly passed on
    the old man’s informationA blackbird is sent a message through a café known as Le Coeur du
    Soldat in ArgenteuilThis blackbird must be an extraordinary man, and now my client wants to
    reach himAs for myself, my offices are hotel rooms in various citiesI’m currently registered
    under the name of Simon at the Pont-Royal, where I keep my passport and other papers Bourne
    paused, his palms outstretched“I’ve just told you the entire truth as I know it
    “Not the entire truth,” corrected Santos, his voice low and guttural“Who is your client?”
    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
    230
    “I’ll be killed if I tell you
    “I’ll kill you right now if you don’t,” said the Jackal’s conduit, removing Jason’s hunting knife
    from his wide leather belt, the blade glistening in the light of the floor lamp
    “Why not give me the information my client wants along with a name and a number—any name,
    any number—and I’ll guarantee you two million francsAll my client asks is for me to be the only
    intermed
    Monday, December 27th, 2010
    3:03 am
    @@@@@ I positioned myself beside the empty
    @@@@@
    I positioned myself beside the empty chair, said a
    little prayer, and droppedI leaned left as
    always, to spare my bad hipI didn't land quite
    square, but I grabbed the wooden arms, pushed with
    my strong foot, and the chair only teeteredA
    month before I would have spilled, but I was
    stronger nowI could imagine Kathi Green
    applauding
    "Good job, Edgar," he said"Or are you an Eddie?"
    "Pick your poison, I answer to eitherWhat might
    you have in that pitcher?"
    214
    "Iced green tea," he saidTry
    some?"
    "I'd love to
    He poured me a glass, then topped up his own and
    raised itThe tea was only faintly greenHis
    eyes, caught in fine nets of wrinkles, were
    greenerHis hair was black, streaking in white at
    the temples, and quite long indeedWhen the wind
    lifted it, I could see a scar at the top of his
    hairline on the right side, coin-shaped but
    smallerHe was wearing a bathing suit today, and
    his legs were as brown as his armsHe looked fit,
    but I thought he also looked tired
    "Let's drink to you, muchacho
    "All right," I said
    We clinked glasses and drankI'd had green tea
    before and thought it was okay, but this was
    heavenly - like drinking cold silk, with just a
    faint tang of sweetness
    "Do you taste the honey?" he asked, and smiled
    when I noddedI just put in a
    tablespoonful per pitcherIt releases the natural
    sweetness of the teaI learned that cooking on a
    tramp steamer in the China Sea He held up his
    215
    glass and squinted through
    Sunday, December 26th, 2010
    3:03 am
    @@@@@I'd been in only one place like this, but
    @@@@@I'd been in only one place like this, but Melanie's childhood was full of
    such memoriesThe short row of double cabinets, the sink where the Healer was washing her
    hands, the bright, clean white walls…
    “First things first,” Knits Fire said cheerfullyShe pulled a cabinet openI tried to focus my
    eyes, knowing this was importantThe cabinet was full of rows and rows of stacked white
    cylindersShe took one down, reaching for it without searching; she knew what she wanted
    The small container had a label, but I couldn't read it“A little no pain should help, don't you
    think?”
    I saw the label again as she twisted the lid offo Pain? Was that what it
    said?
    “Open your mouth, Glass SpiresShe took a small, thin square–it looked like tissue paper–and laid it on my tongueIt
    dissolved at onceI swallowed automatically
    “Better?” the Healer askedMy my head was clear–I could concentrate without difficultyThe pain
    had melted away with the tiny square
    “I know you feel fine now, but please don't moveYour injuries are not treated yet
    “Cerulean, could you get us some water? Her mouth seems dry
    “At once, Healer Knits
    The older woman left the room
    The Healer turned back to her cabinets, opening a different one this timeThis, too, was filled
    with white containers She pulled one from the top of a stack, then took another
    from the other side
    Almost as if she were trying to help me fulfill my mission, she listed the names as she reached
    for them
    “Clean–inside and out… Heal… Seal… And where is… ah, Smo
    Saturday, December 25th, 2010
    3:03 am
    @@@@@She was a good girl, he said to himselfHe
    @@@@@She was a good girl, he said to himselfHe was thinking without quite phrasing it that no other person had ever understood him so fully, and he felt a secret relief as he realized that she had understood him and still loved himThis opened again the wound of all his loss, and he lay weeping bitterly for many minutes, unconscious of where he was, feeling nothing but the complete sorrow in his bodyHe would think of the last letter every now and then, and this would send him off into a new spasm of griefHe must have cried for almost an hour
    At last he was spent, and he felt clean and gentleFor the first time he remembered that he had a child, and he wondered what it looked like and what its sex might beIt gave him a delicate joy for an instant, and he thought, If it's a boy, I'm gonna train him earlyHe'll be a pro baseball player, that's where the money isHis thoughts eddied away, and his mind became rested and emptyHe looked moodily at the dense jungle behind him, and wondered how far he would have to walk backThe wind was still sweeping along the beach, and his emotions became vague and shifted about like vaporsHe was sad again and thought of cold and lonely things like wind on a winter beach

    It was a shame such a misfortune had to come to Gallagher, Roth thoughtThe men had taken an hour break from the unloading detail to eat their K rations, and Roth had gone for a stroll along the beachHe was thinking now of the way Gallagher had looked when he came back from his walkHis eyes had been very red, and Roth decided he had been cryingStill, he takes it well, Roth sighed to himselfHe's an ignorant fellow, no education, he probably doesn't have so many feelingsRoth shook his head and continued to trudge through the sandAbsorbed in thought, his chin rested almost on his chest and it emphasized the misshapen humped appearance of his back
    The great rain cloud that had spread over them that morning had blown away and the sun was very hot on his green fatigue capHe stopped, and mopped his foreheadThis tropical weather is uncertain, he told himself, very unhealthy, it's miasmalHis legs and arms ached from the labor of carrying the boxes from the boat to the dump, and he sighe
    Friday, December 24th, 2010
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    Union
    military officials were determined to destroy the flower-filled,
    pastel-painted old cityThe harbor entrance was blockaded first;
    later, gun emplacements on nearby islands fired shells into narrow
    streets and houses in a siege that lasted for almost six hundred days;
    finally Sherman's Army came with its torches to burn the plantation
    houses on the riversWhen the Union troops marched in to occupy
    their
    prize, they faced a desolate louis vuitton pink ruinWild grasses grew in the streets
    and choked the gardens of windowless, shell-scarred, broken-roofed
    housesThey also faced a decimated population that had become as
    proud and arrogant as their Northern reputationOutsiders were no
    longer welcome in CharlestonPeople repaired their roofs and
    windows
    as best they could and locked their doorsAmong themselves, they
    restored the cherished habits of gaietyThey met for dancing in
    looted prada tote bag drawing rooms where they toasted the South in water from
    cracked
    and mended cups"Starvation parties," they called their gatherings,
    and laughedThe days of French champagne in crystal flutes might be
    gone, but they were still CharlestoniansThey had lost their
    possessions but they had almost two centuries of shared tradition and
    styleNo one could take that from themThe War was over, but they
    weren't defeatedThey would never be defeated, no louis vuitton travel matter what the
    damn Yankees didNot so long as they stuck togetherAnd kept
    everyone else out of their closed circleThe military occupation and
    the outrages of Reconstruction tested their mettle, but they held
    fast
    One by one the other states of the Confederacy were readmitted to the
    Union, their state governments restored to the state's populationBut
    not South CarolinaAnd especially not CharlestonMore than nine
    years after the end of the gucci women watch War, armed soldiers patrolled the old
    streets, enforcing curfewConstantly changing regulations covered
    everything from the price of paper to the licensing of marriages and
    funerals
    Charleston became more and more derelict outwardly, but ever
    stronger
    in its determination to preserve the old ways of lifeThe Bachelors'
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    Thursday, December 23rd, 2010
    3:03 am
    @@@@@ “Don’t,” interrupted Jason firmly“That old
    @@@@@
    “Don’t,” interrupted Jason firmly“That old man’s from the Jackal—”
    “Carlos!” cried Krupkin, his face flushed, his alert blue eyes now intense, angry“The Jackal’s
    after you, Aleksei?”
    “No, him,” answered Conklin
    “Good God! With what we’ve picked up, it’s all falling into placeSo I have the distinct honor
    to meet the infamous Jason BourneA great pleasure, sir! We have the same objective where
    Carlos is concerned, do we not?”
    “If your men are any good, we may reach that objective before the next hour’s upCome on!
    Let’s get out of here and use the back way, the kitchen, a window, whateverHe’s found me and
    you can bet your ass he’s coming out here for meOnly he doesn’t know we know thatLet’s go!”
    As the three men rose from the table Krupkin gave instructions to his aide“Have the car
    brought around to the rear, the service entrance, if there is one, but do it casually, SergeiNo sense
    of urgency, you understand me?”
    “We can drive half a mile down the road and turn into a pasture that will lead to the rear of the
    buildingWe will not be seen by the old man in his carAnd have our backup remain in place but be prepared
    “Of course, comrade The aide hurried back to the front entrance
    “A backup?” exploded Alex“You had a backup?”
    “Please, Aleksei, why quibble? It’s your own fault, after allEven last night on the phone you
    did not tell me about your conspiracy against your own deputy director
    “It wasn’t a conspiracy, for Christ’s sake!”
    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
    319
    “It wasn’t exactly a pure rapport between the home office and the field, was it? No, Aleksei
    Nikolae Konsolikov, you knew you could—shall we say—use me and you didNever forget, my
    fine old adversary, you are Russian
    “Will you two shut up and get out of here?”
    They waited in Krupkin’s armor-plated Citro?n on the edge of an overgrown field a hundred feet
    behind the old man’s car, the front of the restaurant in clear sightTo Bourne’s annoyance, Conklin
    and the KGB officer reminisced like two aging professionals dissecting each other’s strategies in
    past intelligence operations, pointing out the deficiencies each held to be with the other’sThe
    Soviet backup was a nondescript sedan on the far shoulder of the road diagonally across from the
    restaurantTwo armed men were ready to leap out, their automatic weapons prepared to fi
    Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010
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    I went upstairs to Little Pink like a man in a
    dream, wearing only my undershortsI turned on
    The Bone, set Girl and Ship No7 against the wall,
    and put a fresh canvas - not as big as the one I'd
    579
    used for Wireman Looks West, but big - on my easel
    My missing arm was itching, but this no longer
    bothered me the way it had at first; the truth was,
    I'd almost come to look forward to it
    Shark Puppy was on the radio: "DigLife is more than love and
    pleasure
    I remember clearly how the whole world seemed to
    be waiting for me to begin pasha cartier - that was how much
    power I felt running through me while the guitars
    screamed and the shells murmured
    I came here to dig for treasure
    I painted until the sun was gone and the moon cast
    its bitter rind of white light over the water and
    after that was gone, too
    If you want to play you gotta pay
    xi
    580
    The sight of Dario in a suit and a tie, with his
    lush hair tamed and combed straight back from his
    forehead, scared me even more than the murmuring
    audience that filled Geldbart Auditorium, where
    the lights had just been turned gold gucci down to half
    except for the spotlight shining down on the
    lectern standing at center stage, that wasThe
    fact that Dario himself was nervous - going to the
    podium he had nearly dropped his note-cards -
    scared me even worse
    "Good evening, my name is Dario Nannuzzi," he said
    "I am cocurator, and chief buyer at the Scoto
    Gallery on Palm AvenueMore importantly, I have
    been a part of the Sarasota art community for
    thirty years, and I hope you will excuse my brief
    descent into what some might call Bobbittry when I
    say there is no finer omega moon watch art community in America
    This brought enthusiastic applause from an
    audience which - as Wireman said later - might
    know the difference between Monet and Manet, but
    apparently didn't have a clue that there was a
    difference between George Babbitt and John Bobbitt
    Standing in the wings, suffering through that
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    as their introducers wind their slow and
    peristaltic courses, I hardly noticed
    Dario shifted his top file-card to the bottom,
    once again nearly dropped the whole omega geneve stack,
    recovered, and looked out at his audience again
    "I hardly know where to begin, but to my relief I
    need say very little, for true talent seems to
    blaze up from nowhere, and serves as its own
    introduction
    That said, he proceeded to introduce me for the
    next ten minutes as I stood in the wings with my
    one lousy page of notes clutched in my remaining
    handNames went past like floats in a paradeA
    few, like Edward Hopper and Salvador Dalí, I knew
    Others, like Yves Tanguy and Kay Sage, I didn't
    Each unknown name made me feel more of an fake prada impo
    Sunday, December 19th, 2010
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    The trouble and expense of it to them would be nothing, compared
    with the benevolence of the action Lady Bertram agreed with her
    instantly“I think we cannot do better,” said she; “let us send for
    the child
    Sir Thomas could not give so instantaneous and unqualified a
    consentHe debated and hesitated;—it was a serious charge;—a
    girl so brought up must be adequately provided for, or there would
    be cruelty instead of kindness in taking her from her familyHe
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    “My dear Sir Thomas, I perfectly comprehend you, and do justice
    to the generosity and delicacy of your notions, which indeed are
    quite of a piece with your general conduct; and I entirely agree with
    you in the main as to the propriety of doing everything one could
    by way of providing for a child one had in a manner taken into one’s
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    withhold my mite upon such an occasionHaving no children of
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    ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without farther
    expense to anybodyA niece of ours, Sir Thomas, I may say, or at
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    I dare say she would not; but she would be introduced into the
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    impossibleI never knew an instance of itIt is, in fact, the only
    sure way of providing against the connexionSuppose her a pretty
    girl, and seen by Tom or Edmund for the first time seven years
    hence, and I dare say there would be mischiefThe very idea of her
    having been suffered to grow up at a distance from us all in poverty
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    “There is a great deal of truth in what you say,” replied Sir Thomas,
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    and cheerfulness of every family meeting and every meal chiefly
    dependedBut this must be learned to be enduredHe would soon
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    same room with her uncle, hear his voice, receive his questions, and
    even answer them, without such wretched feelings as she had formerly
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    circle after dinner; and in consideration of Fanny’s swimming eyes,
    nothing more was said on the first day than to drink their good
    health; but on the second it led to something fartherWilliam was
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    reason to suppose,” added Sir Thomas, “but that his visits to us may
    now be tolerably frequentAs to Edmund, we must learn to do
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    have been kind to her, she is now quite as necessary to us
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    “Yes,” said Lady Bertram presently; “and it is a comfort to think
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    “What do you mean?” asked the psychiatrist, snapping his head around at the former intelligence
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