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| Monday, January 3rd, 2011 | | 2:15 pm |
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@@@@@In the jeep motoring forward slowly through @@@@@In the jeep motoring forward slowly through the darkness, Cummings had a sensation of being suspended in airThe steady drone of the motor, the silence of everyone in the vehicle, and the heavy wet rustling of the jungle seemed to strip him of everything but the quick absorbed functioning of his mindAlone, settled by himself somewhere in space, he had to work this outThe storm had come with amazing rapidity, following in the wake of a Japanese attackTen minutes before the rain had begun, he had had a message from 2nd Battalion headquarters that a heavy fire fight had started before their linesAnd then the telephone lines had been cut to pieces in the storm, his headquarters had been laid flat, and the radio would not functionHe had no idea of what was happening at the frontBy now Hutchins might have pulled back 2nd BattalionThe Japs, driven on with a kind of frenzy generated by the gale, could conceivably have penetrated his front line in any number of placesWith no orders coming through to them, Lord knew what might happenIf only headquarters battery had its line open to the front At least he had moved a dozen tanks up two days ago to 2nd BattalionThey would never have been able to make it on the road tonight, nor, for that matter, could they advance now, but if necessary, a defense position could be organized around them tonightWhat chaos there could beThe entire line might be a series of isolated hedgehogs by tomorrowAnd there was nothing he could do until he got to a telephone lineAnything could developIn two days he might be back where he was when he started the pivoting operation When he reached that telephone line, the decisions would have to be almost immediateHe reviewed the personalities of his line officers, remembered the distinguishing characteristics, if there were any, of different companies, even individual platoonsHis acute memory reissued a spate of incidents and strength figures; he knew effectively where every gun and every man on Anopopei was placed, and all this knowledge passed in an undigested flow through his headAt the moment he was an extremely simple manEverything in him was functioning for one purpose, and from experience, with a confident unstated certainty, he knew that when demanded of him all this information would crystallize into the proper reactionsIf he built up enough tension his instincts would not fail him And with all this there was an intense and primitive ra | | Friday, December 31st, 2010 | | 2:23 pm |
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Scarlett stood with the others, the course @@@@@ Scarlett stood with the others, the course through mother-of-pearl opera glassesThe turf track brilliant green, the infield of the long oval was a mass of me and colorPeople stood on wagons, on the seats and roofs of carriages, walked around singly and in groups, massed at the interior railIt began to rain and Scarlett was grateful for the second her of grandstand overheadIt made a roof for the privileged seat-holders below"Good show," Bart Morland chortled "Dijon is a great little mudder "Do you fancy anything, Scarlett?" said a smooth voice in her ear"I haven't decided yet, Luke When the riders came onto the track, Scarlett cheered and applauded with the restShe agreed twenty times with John Morland that even the naked eye could pick out Dijon as the handsomest horse thereAll the time she was talking and smiling her mind was methodically making its way through the options, the plusses and the minuses of her lifeIt would be highly dishonorable to marry Lukehe wanted a child, and she could not give him oneExcept Cat, who would be safe and secureNo one would ever question who her real father wasNot quite true, they would wonder but it would make no differenceShe would eventually be The O 'hara of Ballyhara, and the Countess of FentonWhat kind of honor do I owe Luke? he has none himself, why should I feel he's entitled to it from me? Dijon wonJohn Morland was in transports Everyone crowded around him, shouting and pounding on his back Under cover of the happy rowdiness, Scarlett turned to Luke Fenton "Tell your solicitor to see mine about the contracts," she said"I choose late September for the wedding date "Colum, I'm going to marry the Earl of Fenton," said Scarle | | Monday, December 27th, 2010 | | 2:20 pm |
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She had to think; there must be some way to @@@@@ She had to think; there must be some way to salvage her life from the ruins; she refused to believe differentBut she couldn't keep her mind from jumping aroundShe was so confused, so tiredShe'd been tired beforeWorse tired than thisWhen she had to get to Tara from Atlanta, with the Yankee army on all sides, she hadn't let tired stop herWhen she had to forage for food all over the countryside, she hadn't given up because her legs and arms felt like dead weights pulling on herWhen she picked cotton until her hands were raw, when she hitched herself to the plow like she was a mule, when she had to find strength to keep going in spite of everything, she hadn't given up because she was tiredShe wasn't going to give up nowIt wasn't in her to give upShe stared ahead, facing all her demonsRhett's leaving her, saying that their marriage was deadThat was what she had to meet head-onShe heard his voice: "Nothing's changed It couldn't be true! But it wasShe had to find a way to get him backShe'd always been able to get any man she wanted, and Rhett was a man like any other man, wasn't he? No, he wasn't like any other man, and that's why she wanted himShe shivered, suddenly afraid Suppose that this time she didn't win? She had always won, one way or anotherShe'd always gotten what she wanted, somehowAbove her head a bluejay cried raucously Scarlett looked up, heard a second jeering cry"Leave me alone," she shoutedThe bird flew away, a whirr of gaudy blue She had to think, to remember what Rhett had s | | Friday, December 24th, 2010 | | 2:15 pm |
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@@@@@Telling the truth with it was enoughI had @@@@@Telling the truth with it was enoughI had something in common with the human baby in the park: nothing like me had ever existed before The Seeker's body blocked the light, and I could see againrobably middle-aged–his features conflicted with one another, making it hard to tell; his hair was all white, but his face was smooth and unwrinkledHe wore a T-shirt and shorts, a blocky gun clearly visible on his hipOne hand rested on the butt of the weaponIn his other hand was a dark flashlightHe didn't turn it on “Having a problem, miss?” he said when he was a few feet away“You were going much too fast for safety His eyes were restlessThey swiftly appraised my expression–which was, hopefully, sleepy–and then ran along the length of the van, darted into the darkness behind us, flashed forward to the stretch of highway ahead, lit by our headlights, and came back to my faceThey repeated the course another timeThis knowledge made my palms sweaty, but I tried to keep the panic from my voice “I'm so sorry,” I apologized in a loud whisperI glanced at Jared, as if checking to see whether our words had woken him“I think… well, I think I might have fallen asleepI didn't realize I was so tired I tried to smile remorsefullyI could tell I sounded stiff, like the too-careful actors on the television The Seeker's eyes traced their route again, this time lingering on JaredMy heart jumped painfully against the inside of my ribsI pinched the pill tighter “It was irresponsible for me to drive for so long without sleep,” I said quickly, trying again to smile a little“I thought we could make it to Phoenix before I would need | | Sunday, December 19th, 2010 | | 2:20 pm |
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They started @@@@@"Come on, let's get going They started out, progressing slowly and carefully over the hills back to the hollow where they had left the rest of the platoonIt was hard labor, and they took frequent rests, alternating the guard for the litter-bearers Wilson gained consciousness slowly, muttering incoherently for minutes at a timeHe seemed awake for almost a minute, but he recognized none of them "Doko koko cola," he muttered several times, giggling feebly They stopped, wiped the blood from his mouth, and then set out againIt took them more than an hour to reach the platoon, and they were very tired when they got thereThey laid Wilson down, slipped him off the stretcher, and flopped on the ground to restThe other men gathered about them nervously, asking questions, mildly jubilant that Wilson had been found, but they were too weary to talk much"Goddam it, you men, stop standing around with your finger in your ass They looked at him in bewilderment "Minetta and Polack and Wyman andRoth, git over there in that grove, and cut two poles about six feet long, and about two inches in diameter, and bring back a couple of struts about eighteen inches wide?" "What for?" Minetta asked "What the hell do you think it's for? For a stretcherNow git goin', you men Muttering, they picked up a couple of machetes, and filed out of the hollow to the groveIn a minute or so, the platoon could hear them hacking away at the treesCroft spat disgustedly"Them men are enough to frost your nuts There was a restless titterWilson, unconscious now, lay in the center of the hollow, very stillDespite themselves, they all kept looking at him Hearn had joined Croft, and after talking for a moment or two, they called Brown and Stanley and Martinez over to themIt was about four o'clock in the afternoon, and the sun was still hot | | Saturday, December 18th, 2010 | | 2:22 pm |
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Good Lord! Everybody has @@@@@ No servants? Good Lord! Everybody has servants, everybody! What kind of place do they live in, a tenement? Scarlett squared her jawThis is Pa's own brother's son, and Uncle James is Pa's own brotherI won't disgrace his memory by being too cowardly to take a cup of tea with them, even if there are rats running across the floor"Pansy," she said, "when we get to the house, you go on inI'll be back directly, you tell them You will walk me home, won't you, Jamie?" She was brave enough to face a rat running across her foot, but she wasn't willing to ruin her reputation for all time by walking alone on the streetLadies just didn't do thatTo Scarlett's relief they walked along the street behind her grandfather's house, not by the square in front of it where her aunts liked to promenade under the trees for their "constitutionals Pansy went willingly through the gate into the garden, already yawning anticipation of going back to sleep Scarlett tried not to look anxiousn She'd heard Jerome complaining to her aunts about the deterioration of the neighborhoodOnly a few blocks to the east the fine old homes had degenerated into ramshackle boardinghouses for the sailors who manned the ships in and out of Savannah's busy portAnd for the waves of immigrants who arrived on some of the shipsMost of them, according to the snobbish, elegant old black man, were unwashed IrishJames escorted her straight ahead, and she sighed silently with 345 reliefThen, very soon, he turned onto the handsome, well-kept avenue called South Broad and announced, "Here we are," in front of a tall, substantial brick house"How nice!" Scarlett said, with all her heartIt was almost the last thing she got to say for some timeInstead of climbing the stairs to the big door on the high stoop, Jamie opened a smaller door at street level and ushered her into the kitchen and an overwhelming onslaught of people, all of them redheaded and all of them noisily welcoming when he shouted out above the hubbub of greetings, "This is Scarlett, my uncle Gerald O'Hara's beautiful daughter come all the way from Atlanta to see Uncle James There are so many of them, Scarlett thought when they rushed toward herJamie's laughter when the youngest girl and a little boy grabbed him around the knees made it impossible to understand what he was sayingThen a large stout woman, with hair redder than any of them, held out a roughened hand to Scarlett "Welcome to the house," she said placidly"I'm Jamie's wife, Maureen Pay no attention to these savages; come sit by the fire and have a cup of tea She took Scarlett's arm in a firm grip and drew her into the roo | | Friday, December 17th, 2010 | | 2:17 pm |
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