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    Monday, January 3rd, 2011
    9:19 am
    @@@@@Then her words faltered"You know who it
    @@@@@Then her words faltered"You know
    who
    it is, don't you, Alicia?"
    "I must be wrongYou have a son the right age-about fourteen or
    fifteen-and you're sure to know his friendsAs soon as I heard about
    this I thought it had to be a Charleston boyDo you really believe a
    Yankee soldier would break into a woman's bedroom just to look at the
    shape of her under a coverlet? This isn't a reign of terror, Alicia,
    it's a miserable boy who's confused about what his body is doing to
    him
    He wants to know what a woman's body is like without corsets and
    bustles, wants to know so much that he's driven to stealing looks at
    sleeping womenMost likely he's ashamed of his thoughts when he
    sees
    one fully dressed and awakeI suppose his father was killed in the War, and
    there's no man ú for him to talk to
    "He has an older brother-"
    "Oh? Then maybe I'm wrongOr you're
    thinking of the wrong boyTommy Cooper is the boy's nameHe's the tallest of
    the lot of them, and the cleanestPlus he all but choked to death
    when I said hello to him on the street two days after the incident in
    my bedroomHis father died at Bull Run
    His
    brother's ten or eleven years older
    "Do you mean Edward Cooper, the lawyer?" Alicia nodded"It's no
    wonder, then
    Cooper is on my mother's Confederate Home committee; I met him at
    the
    houseHe's all but a eunuchTommy'll get no help from him
    "He's not a eunuch at all, he's just too much in love with Anne
    Hampton
    to see his brother's needs
    "As you like, AliciaBut I'm going to have a little conference ú with
    Tommy
    You'll scare the poor boy to death ú "The 'poor boy' is scaring the
    female population of Charleston to dea
    Sunday, January 2nd, 2011
    9:19 am
    @@@@@“So hard that two of them had to be taken
    @@@@@“So hard that two of them had to be taken out along with
    Teagarten and our disgruntled MoleSnake Lady’s elders quickly decided who their vulnerable
    people wereBut where does Carlos or Bourne fit in? There’s no attribution
    “I thought we agreed that there was
    “DeSole?” Conklin shook his head“It’s a provocative thought, but it doesn’t washHe couldn’t
    have presumed that I knew about Medusa’s penetration because we hadn’t even started it
    “But when you did, the sequence had to bother him if only in the sense that although they were
    poles apart, one crisis followed too quickly upon anotherWhat was it? A matter of hours?”
    “Less than twenty-four Still, they were poles apart
    “Not for an analyst’s analyst,” countered Holland“If it walks like an odd duck and sounds like
    an odd duck, look for an odd duckI submit that somewhere along the line DeSole made the
    connection between Jason Bourne and the madman who had infiltrated Medusa—the new
    Medusa
    “For Christ’s sake, how?”
    “I don’t knowMaybe because you told us Bourne came out of the old Saigon Medusa—that’s
    one hell of a connection to begin with
    “My God, you may be right,” said Alex, falling back on the couch“The driving force we gave
    our unnamed madman was that he’d been cut off from, the new MedusaI used the words myself
    with every phone call‘He’s spent years putting it together ‘He’s got names and ranks and
    banks in ZurichJesus, I’m blind! I said those things to total strangers on a telephone fishing
    expedition and never even thought about having mentioned Bourne’s origins in Medusa at that
    meeting when DeSole was here
    “Why should you have thought about it? You and your man decided to play a separate game all
    by yourselves
    “The reasons were goddamned valid,” broke in Conklin“For all I knew, you were a Medusan
    “Come on, don’t give me that shi
    Saturday, January 1st, 2011
    9:19 am
    @@@@@ She was sitting in (the BURN, the CHAR) a
    @@@@@
    She was sitting in
    (the BURN, the CHAR)
    a chairWhat chair? A rocking chairHadn't been
    any such item in our house when I left it, but
    there was nowSomething was on the table beside
    herI didn't know what it was at first, but it
    375
    emerged from the tip of the pen and became a box
    with printing across the topSweet Owen? Did it
    say Sweet Owen? No, it said Grandma'sMy Uni-ball
    put something on the table beside the boxWhile I was
    looking at it, the pen drew the book in Pam's hand
    Couldn't read the title because the angle was
    wrongBy now my pen was adding lines between the
    window and her feetShe'd said it was snowing,
    but now the snow was overThe lines were meant to
    be sunrays
    I thought the picture was finished, but apparently
    there were two more thingsMy pen moved to the
    far left side of the paper and added the
    television, quick as a flashNew television, flat
    screen like Elizabeth'sAnd below it -
    The pen finished and fell away
    My fingers were stiffOn the other side of the
    long table, Elizabeth's doze had deepened into
    real sleepOnce she might have been young and
    beautifulOnce she might have been some young
    man's dream babyNow she was snoring with her
    mostly toothless mouth pointed at the ceilingIf
    376
    there's a God, I think He needs to try a little
    harder
    viii
    I had seen a phone in the library as well as the
    kitchen, and the library was closer to the China
    ParlorI decided neither Wireman nor Elizabeth
    would begrudge me a long-distance call to
    MinnesotaI picked up the phone, then paused with
    it curled to my ches
    Friday, December 31st, 2010
    9:26 am
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    you feel what I'm talking about?”
    “Yes,” he breathedThose are the anterior antennaeNow, very gently, roll your finger under
    the bodyFind the line of attachmentsThey'll feel tight, like wires
    I guided him a third of the chanel bag classic way down, told him how to count if he wasn't sureWe didn't have
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    around, would be able to help us–there must be something for thatI helped him find the biggest
    nodule
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    Doc's voice went up in pitch, turned a little panicky
    “That's good–it means you're doing it rightGive it time to retractWait till it rolls up a bit,
    then take it into your hand
    I reached toward Ian
    I felt Ian's hand wind around mineI turned it over, curled his hand into a oyster rolex cup, and pulled it
    close to Doc's operation site
    “Give the soul to Ian–gently, please
    Ian would be the perfect assistantWhen I was gone, who else would take such care with my
    little relatives?
    Doc passed the soul into Ian's waiting hand, then turned at once to heal the human watches gucci body
    Ian stared at the silver ribbon in his hand, his face full of wonder rather than revulsionIt felt
    warmer inside my chest while I watched his reaction
    “It's pretty,” he whispered, surprisedNo matter how he felt about me, he'd been conditioned to
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    Thursday, December 30th, 2010
    9:18 am
    @@@@@ The pain was acuteTo Cummings at that
    @@@@@
    The pain was acuteTo Cummings at that instant, after the effort of maintaining his poise, it was unbearableTo his horror, he felt tears forming in his eyes, and he shut his eyelids, trying desperately to blink them back"Dammit, man," he roared, "WHY DON'T YOU WATCH IT?" It was the first time any of them had ever heard Cummings shout, and Stacey quivered
    The shout relieved him, however, and he was able to resist the temptation to rub his shinboneThe ache was subsiding into a dull throbBut Cummings felt himself close to exhaustion, and a spasm of diarrhea cramped himTo ease it, he leaned forward in his chair"Do you want to repair the overlay, Hearn?"
    "Yes, sir
    Dalleson and Stacey were scrabbling on the floor picking up the portions of the map that had torn in the fallHearn looked at Cummings, his eyes expressionless, and then stooped down for the overlay
    "Does it hurt, sir?" His voice was flatly solicitous
    "It's all right, thank you
    In the tent, the heat had become even more oppressiveCummings felt a little faint"After you get the map fixed, will you take care of that movement, Major," he said
    "Yes, sir," Dalleson said from the floor
    Cummings stepped outside, leaning against the corner pole for a few secondsThe night air was almost cold against his wet clothingHe looked about and then kneaded his shin tenderly before limping across the bivouac
    He had extinguished the Coleman lantern in his own tent before leaving, and he lay down on his cot in the darkness, and stared at the dim outlines of the tentLike a cat his eyes reflected some light, and a man entering the tent would have been able to discern them in the darkness before he could see anything elseHis shin was throbbing powerfully now, and his stomach felt a little upsetThe crack of the map-board against his legs had unseated all the disorders that the tension and absorption of the past two months had spawnedHis flesh crawled as if he had a scabies, and his body was laved with an unreasonable s
    Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
    9:19 am
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    looked at RosemaryIf Rhett's sister broke down, too, she didn't know
    what she'd doRosemary looked very pale, but she seemed composed
    enoughShe was sitting on the edge of the bed, looking at the pattern
    of the coverlet as if she'd never seen one beforeScarlett walked to
    the window that overlooked the back lawnIf she stayed zucca fendi bag to one side
    of
    it, no one below could see her looking outShe lifted the muslin
    curtain with cautious fingers and peered outWas Rhett out there?
    Dear God, he was! She could just make out the top of his hat, a dark
    circle in the middle of a big crowd of dark heads and gesticulating
    dark handsThe separate groups of black men had omega seamaster vintage come together in
    one
    threatening massThey could stomp him to death in half a minute
    flat,
    she thought, and there's nothing I can do to stop itHer hand
    crumpled the thin curtain in anger at her helplessness
    "Better get away from that window, Scarlett," said Rosemary"If
    Rhett
    starts worrying about you and me, he'll be distracted vintage omega seamaster from whatever it
    is he has to do Scarlett whirled to the attack
    "Don't you care what's happening?"
    "I care plenty, but I don't know what's happening
    "I know that Rhett's about to be swamped by a bunch of raging
    darkies
    Why don't those trashy tobacco spitters use the guns they're sitting
    around with?"
    "Then we'd really be in a fixI kelly bag hermes know some of the black men, they
    work
    at the phosphate mineThey don't want anything to happen to Rhett
    or
    they'd lose their jobsBesides, plenty of them are Butler peopleIt's the whites I'm scared ofI expect Rhett is,
    too
    "Rhett's not scared of anything!"
    "Of course he isHe'd be a fool if he wasn'tI'm plenty scared and
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    Monday, December 27th, 2010
    9:19 am
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    “Then the Church is one up on you,” said Alex, angling his head in a humorously mocking
    rebuke“They threw him out before you did
    “I never underestimate the Vatican,” laughed Dimitri“It ultimately proved that our mad Joseph
    Stalin misunderstood priorities when he asked how many battalions the Pope hadHis Holiness
    doesn’t need them; he achieves more than Stalin ever did with all his top chanel purgesPower goes to the one
    who instills the greatest fear, not so, Aleksei? All the princes of this earth use it with brutal
    effectivenessAnd it all revolves around death—the fear of it, before and afterWhen will we grow
    up and tell them all to go to the devil?”
    “Death,” whispered Jason, frowning“Death on the Rivoli, at the Meurice, the Magdalen Sisters
    my God, I completely forgot! rolex submariner price Dominique Lavier! She was at the Meurice—she may still be
    thereShe said she’d work with me!”
    “Why would she?” asked Krupkin sharply
    “Because Carlos killed her sister and she had no choice but to join him or be killed herself
    Bourne turned to the console“I need the telephone number of the Meurice—”
    “Four two six zero, three eight six zero,” offered Krupkin as Jason grabbed a pencil and messenger bag prada wrote
    down the numbers on Alex’s notepad“A lovely place, once known as the hotel of kingsI
    especially like the grill
    Bourne touched the buttons, holding up his hand for quietRemembering, he asked for Madame
    Brielle’s room, the name they had agreed upon, and when the hotel operator said “Mais oui,” he
    nodded rapidly in relief to Alex and Dimitri Krupkin
    “Yes?”
    “It is I, madame,” said rolex ladies watch Jason, his French just slightly coarse, ever so minimally Anglicized; the
    Chameleon was in charge“Your housekeeper suggested we might reach you hereMadame’s dress
    is readyWe apologize for the delay
    “It was to have been brought to me yesterday—by noon—you ass! I intended to wear it last
    evening at Le Grand VéfourI was mortified!”
    “A thousand apologiesWe can deliver it to the hotel wallet vuitton immedia
    Sunday, December 26th, 2010
    9:27 am
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    "Smoke this, amigo," I said, and gripped my crotch
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    Wireman took no notice of my vulgarity"That dior handbags missing brazo of yours gonna be
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    "Wireman, you are one cynical mongrel
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    He took this for the compliment it sort of wasHe
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    "But-"
    "Yes," he said, noddingYour shrink,
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    woman who rehabbed you-"
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    Wireman took no notice"You mentioned a lawyer-"
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    Saturday, December 25th, 2010
    9:27 am
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    hiccuped and then started crying again
    “Don't you have any other choices?” Kyle asked anxiously“Aren't there a lot more places out
    there?”
    I could hear Trudy talking to the Healer's host, but I tuned out the wordsLet the dolce sale humans take
    care of their own for the moment
    “Not that the off-world ships are going to,” I told him, shaking my head“There are lots of
    worlds, but only a few, mostly the newer ones, are still open for settlingAnd I'm sorry, Sunny,
    but I have to send you far awayThe Seekers want to find black quilted bag my friends here, and they'd bring you
    back if they could, so you could show them the way
    “I don't even know the way,” she sobbedMy shoulder was drenched with her tears
    Kyle looked at me as if I could produce some kind of miracle to make this all work out
    perfectlyLike the medicine handbag dolce gabbana I'd provided, some kind of magicBut I knew that I was out of
    magic, out of happy endings–for the soul half of the equation, at least
    I stared back hopelessly at Kyle“It's just the Bears, the Flowers, and the Dolphins,” I told him
    “I won't send her to the Fire Planet
    The small woman lady dior shuddered at the name
    “Don't worry, SunnyYou'll like the DolphinsOf course they'll be nice
    I sighed and moved on
    “Sunny, I need to ask you about Jodi
    Kyle stiffened beside me
    “What about her?” Sunny mumbled
    “Is she… is she in there with you? Can you hear her?”
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    Friday, December 24th, 2010
    9:19 am
    @@@@@He had wavered between his desire to see a
    @@@@@He had wavered between his desire to see a fight and his knowledge that it would be a bad thing for the platoonNow he was contemptuous of Stanley; a noncom had to know how to keep a man in his place, and it had been bungledCroft hawked a little spittle over the side wall of the boat"What's the matter, everybody worked up already?" he said coldlyAimless talk irritated him
    They were all quiet againThe tension between them had collapsed like a piece of moist paper shredding of its own weightAll of them except Croft were secretly relievedBut the patrol to come draped them in a shroud of gloomEach retreated into silence and his private fearsLike an augury, the night was coming closer
    Far in the distance they could see Mount Anaka rising above the islandIt arched coldly and remotely from the jungle beneath it, lofting itself massively into the low-hanging clouds of the skyIn the early drab twilight it looked like an immense old gray elephant erecting himself somberly on his front legs, his haunches lost in the green bedding of his lairThe mountain seemed wise and powerful, and terrifying in its sizeGallagher stared at it in absorption, caught by a sense of beauty he could not expressThe idea, the vision he always held of something finer and neater and more beautiful than the moil in which he lived trembled now, pitched almost to a climax of wordsThere was an instant in which he might have said a little of what he was feeling, but it passed and he was left with a troubled joy, an echo of raptureHe licked his lips, mourning his wife again
    Croft was moved as deeply, as fundamentally as caissons resettling in the river mudThe mountain attracted him, taunted and inflamed him with its sizeHe had never seen it so clearly beforeMired in the jungle, the cliffs of Watamai Range had obscured the mountainHe stared at it now, examined its ridges, feeling an instinctive desire to climb the mountain and stand on its peak, to know that all its mighty weight was beneath his feetHis emotions were intense; he knew awe and hunger and the peculiar unique ecstasy he had felt after Hennessey was dead, or when he had killed the Japanese prisone
    Thursday, December 23rd, 2010
    9:19 am
    @@@@@"Good riddance," she said aloudclapped her
    @@@@@"Good
    riddance,"
    she said aloudclapped her hands with delight when the hackney
    pulled
    up in front of Grandfather Robillard's houseIt was pink, just like
    Miss Eleanor had saidTo think that I didn't even notice when I
    visited before! Well, no matter, it was so long ago; what counts is
    nowShe hurried up one curving arm of the double iron-railed steps
    and through the opened doorHer aunts and Pansy could see to the
    luggage, she was dying with curiosity about the inside of the house
    Yes, it was pink everywhere-pink and white and goldThe walls were
    pink, and the covers on the chairs, and the draperiesWith shiny
    white woodwork and columns, all trimmed with glimmering gilt
    Everything looked perfect, too, not peeling and shabby like the paint
    and fabrics in most of the houses in Charleston and AtlantaWhat a
    perfect place to be when Rhett came after herHe'd see that her
    family was every bit as important and impressive as his
    Her eyes moved rapidly, assessing the value of the meticulously
    maintained furnishings she could see through the open door to the
    drawing roomWhy, she could paint every wall of Tara, inside and
    out,
    for what it must cost to gold leaf the plastered ceiling cornersThe
    old skinflint! Grandfather never sent a penny to help me after the
    War, and he doesn't do a thing for the aunts, eitherScarlett
    prepared for battleHer aunts were terrified of their father, but she
    wasn'tThe fearful loneliness she'd known in Atlanta had made her
    timid, apprehensive, eager to please in CharlestonNow she had
    taken
    her life back into her own hands, and she felt vibrant with strength
    Not man nor beast could bother her nowRhett loved her, and she
    was
    queen of the worldShe coolly removed her hat and her fur cape and
    dropped them on a marble-topped console in the hall
    Then she began to take off her apple green kid glovesShe could feel
    her aunts staringThey'd done plenty of that alrea
    Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010
    9:29 am
    @@@@@I brace for the slice of the knife But the
    @@@@@I brace for
    the slice of the knife
    But the hand on my throat eases up, and then his fingers are fumbling on the back of my neck,
    rough and warm on my skin
    “Impossible,” he breathes
    Something hits the floor with a thudHe's dropped the knife? I try to think of a way to get itThe hand on my neck isn't tight enough to keep me from yanking freeI think I
    heard where the blade landed
    He spins me around suddenlyThere is a click, and light blinds my left eyeI gasp and
    automatically try to twist away from itHis hand tightens in my hairThe light flickers to my
    right eye
    “I can't believe it,” he whispers
    His hands grab my face from both sides, and before I can pull free, his lips come down hard on
    mine
    I'm frozen for half a secondNo one has ever kissed me in my lifeJust my
    parents' pecks on the cheek or forehead, so many years agoThis is something I thought I would
    never feelI'm not sure exactly what it feels like, thoughThere's too much panic, too much
    terror, too much adrenaline
    I jerk my knee up in a sharp thrust
    He chokes out a wheezing sound, and I'm freeInstead of running for the front of the house
    again like he expects, I duck under his arm and leap through the open doorI think I can outrun
    him, even with my loadI've got a head start, and he's still making pained nois
    Sunday, December 19th, 2010
    9:20 am
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    "Yeah, boys, don't forget to take your rubbers," Red suggested, and that drew a laughCroft looked angry for a second, but then he drawled, "I know Wilson ain't gonna forget his," and they laughed again"You're fuggin ay," Gallagher snorted
    Wilson giggled infectiously"Ah tell ya," he said, "Ah'd sooner leave my M-one behind, 'cause if cartier womens they was to be a piece of pussy settin' up on that beach, and Ah didn't have a rubber, Ah'd just shoot myself anyway
    Martinez grinned, but their laughter irritated him"What's the matter, Japbait?" Croft asked quietlyTheir eyes met with the intimate look of old friends"Aaah, goddam stomach, she's no good," Martinez saidHe spoke clearly, but oyster rolex in a low and hesitant voice as if he were translating from Spanish as he went alongCroft looked again at him, and then continued talking
    Martinez gazed about the holdThe aisles between the bunks were wide and unfamiliar now that the hammocks were lashed up, and it made him vaguely uneasyHe thought they looked like the stalls in the big diamond gucci library in San Antonio and he remembered there was something unpleasant about it, some girl had spoken to him harshly"I don't care if I do die, do die," went through his headThere was something terrible going to happen to him todayGod always let you know things out of His goodness, and you had toto watch out, to look out for yourselfHe said replica prada the last part to himself in English
    The girl was a librarian and she had thought he was trying to steal a bookHe was very little then, and he had got scared and answered in Spanish, and she had scolded himMartinez's leg twitchedShe had made him cry, he could remember thatToday, he could screw with herThe idea fed him with a pleasurable fendi sale malice
    Saturday, December 18th, 2010
    9:19 am
    @@@@@Miss Crawford thought she had never seen a
    @@@@@Miss Crawford thought she
    had never seen a prettier consciousness“My dear child,” said she,
    laughing, “what are you afraid of? Do you think Henry will claim
    the necklace as mine, and fancy you did not come honestly by it? or
    are you imagining he would be too much flattered by seeing round
    your lovely throat an ornament which his money purchased three
    years ago, before he knew there was such a throat in the world? or
    perhaps”—looking archly—”you suspect a confederacy between us,
    and that what I am now doing is with his knowledge and at his
    desire?”
    With the deepest blushes Fanny protested against such a thought
    “Well, then,” replied Miss Crawford more seriously, but without
    at all believing her, “to convince me that you suspect no trick, and
    are as unsuspicious of compliment as I have always found you, take
    the necklace and say no more about itIts being a gift of my brother’s
    need not make the smallest difference in your accepting it, as I assure
    you it makes none in my willingness to part with itHe is
    always giving me something or otherI have such innumerable presents
    from him that it is quite impossible for me to value or for him
    to remember halfAnd as for this necklace, I do not suppose I have
    worn it six times: it is very pretty, but I never think of it; and though
    you would be most heartily welcome to any other in my trinket225
    Jane Austen
    box, you have happened to fix on the very one which, if I have a
    choice, I would rather part with and see in your possession than any
    otherSay no more against it, I entreat youSuch a trifle is not
    worth half so many words
    Fanny dared not make any farther opposition; and with renewed
    but less happy thanks accepted the necklace again, for there was an
    expression in Miss Crawford’s eyes which she could not be satisfied
    with
    It was impossible for her to be insensible of MrCrawford’s change
    of mannersHe evidently tried to please her:
    he was gallant, he was attentive, he was something like what he had
    been to her cousins: he wanted, she supposed, to cheat her of her
    tranquillity as he had cheated them; and whether he might not have
    some concern in this necklace—she could not be convinced that he
    had not, for Miss Crawford, complaisant as a sister, was careless as a
    woman and a friend
    Reflecting and doubting, and feeling that the possession of what she
    had so much wished for did not bring much satisfaction, she now walked
    home again, with a change rather than a diminution of cares since her
    treading that path before
    226
    Mansfield Park
    CHAPTER XXVII
    ON REACHING HOME Fanny went immediately upstairs to deposit
    this unexpected acquisition, this doubtful good of a necklace, in
    some favourite box in the East room, which held all her smaller
    treasures; but on opening the door, what was her surprise to find
    her cousin Edmund there writing at the table! Such a sight having
    never occurred before, was almost as wonderful as it was welcome
    “Fanny,” said he directly, leaving his seat and his pen, and meeting
    her with something in his hand, “I beg your pardon for being
    hereI came to look for you, and after waiting a little while in hope
    of your coming in, was making use of your inkstand to explain my
    errandYou will find the beginning of a note to yourself; but I can
    now speak my business, which is merely to beg your acceptance of
    this little trifle—a chain for William’s crossYou ought to have had
    it a week ago, but there has been a delay from my brother’s not
    being in town by several days so soon as I expected; and I have only
    just now received it at NorthamptonI hope you will like the chain
    itself, FannyI endeavoured to consult the simplicity of your taste;
    but, at any rate, I know you will be kind to my intentions, and
    consider it, as it really is, a token of the love of one of your oldest
    friends
    And so saying, he was hurrying away, before Fanny, overpowered by
    a thousand feelings of pain and pleasure, could attempt to speak; but
    quickened by one sovereign wish, she then called out, “Oh! cousin,
    stop a moment, pray stop!”
    He turned back
    “I cannot attempt to thank you,” she continued, in a very agitated
    manner; “thanks are out of the questionI feel much more
    than I can possibly expressYour goodness in thinking of me in
    such a way is beyond—”
    227
    Jane Austen
    “If that is all you have to say, Fanny” smiling and turning away
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    CHAPTER 32
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