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    Monday, January 3rd, 2011
    2:34 am
    @@@@@ Goldstein had a perception"Listen, if you
    @@@@@ Goldstein had a perception"Listen, if you ever notice, it's always the ones who go around with a lot of, well, loose women who get so jealousIt's because they don't trust themselves But this didn't satisfy Stanley"I don't know, I guess it's just being stuck out here in the Pacific with nothing to doListen, you've got nothing to worry aboutYour wife loves you, doesn't she? Well, that's all you got to think aboutA decent woman who loves a man doesn't do anything she shouldn't doshe's got a kid," Stanley agreed"A mother wouldn't fool around His wife seemed very abstract to him at the momentHe thought of her as "she," as "x Still he was relieved by what Goldstein had said"She's young, but you know she made a good wife, she was seriouscute the way she took up responsibilities He chuckled, deciding instinctively to salve all the sore spots of his mind"You know we had a lot of trouble on our marriage nightOf course we worked it out later but things weren't so good that first night
    "Oh, everybody has that problem
    "Sure, Listen, I'll tell ya, all these guys who are always braggin', even a guy like Wilson here He lowered his voice"Listen, you can't tell me they didn't have the same troublesIt's always hard to get adjusted
    He liked GoldsteinThe amalgam of the night, the rustling of the leaves in the wood, worked subtly on him, opening the door to all his uncertainti
    2:27 am
    @@@@@ Croft really did not admit all this to
    @@@@@
    Croft really did not admit all this to himselfWith his Army sense, he knew his resentment of Hearn was dangerous, and he also knew his motives on many little actions would not bear examinationHe rarely questioned his reasons for doing anything, but now he sensed he could not search himself, and it made him furiousHe strode up to Minetta and stared at him with rage"Goddammit, man, you gonna keep bitchin'?"
    Minetta was afraid to answerHe stared back as long as he dared and then dropped his eyes"Aaah, c'mon," he said to RothThey picked up their machetes and continued to slash out the trailCroft watched them for a few seconds and then turned and walked away, filing down the newly fashioned path to the platoon
    Roth felt he was to blame for the incidentHe had again the corrosive sense of failure that always dogged himI'm no good at anything, he bleated to himselfHe made a stroke with the machete and the impact snapped it out of his hand Drearily, he bent down to pick it up
    "You might just as well quit now," Ridges told himHe picked up one of the machetes they dropped, and began to work shoulder to shoulder with GoldsteinAs Ridges slashed at the brush with stolid patient motions, his broad short body became less awkward, assumed a strong fluent graceFrom the rear he looked like an animal fashioning its nestHe had a simple pride in his strengthAs his powerful muscles tensed and relaxed, as the sweat laced his back, he was completely happy, absorbed in the toil, the smells of his body
    Goldstein also found the work acceptable, took the same pleasure in the sure motions of his limbs, but his satisfaction was not so pureIt was cloyed with a prejudice Goldstein had against manual laborThat's the only kind of job I ever find, he told himself wistfullyHe had sold newspapers, worked in a warehouse, become a welder, and it had always bothered him that he had never had an occupation where he could keep his hands cleanThe prejudice was very deep, brewed out of all the memories and maxims of his childho
    Sunday, January 2nd, 2011
    2:34 am
    @@@@@Why on earth couldn't the man make a decent
    @@@@@Why on earth
    couldn't the man make a decent amount of noise when he walked?
    375
    "This message come for you, Miss Scarlett He held out a silver tray
    with a telegram on itRhett! Scarlett grabbed the thin paper with
    too-eager, clumsy fingersSee to my coffee,
    please The butler was too curious by half, in her opinionShe
    didn't want him reading over her shoulderAs soon as he was gone,
    she
    ripped open the messageIt was from Uncle
    Henry
    The normally thrifty old lawyer must have been deeply agitated
    because
    the telegram was wastefully wordyI HAVE NOT AND WILL NOT HAVE
    ANYTHING WHATS0EVER TO DO WITH INVESTING 0R 0THERWISE
    INV0LVING MYSELF
    WITH THE MONEY THAT WAS TRANSFERRED BY YOUR HUSBAND STOP
    IT IS IN YOUR
    ACC0UNT AT YOUR BANK STOP I HAVE ExPRESSED MY REPUGNANCE
    FOR THE
    CIRCUMSTANCES SURR0UNDING THIS TRANSACTI0N STOP DO NOT
    ExPECT ANY HELP
    FROM ME STOP Scarlett sank onto a chair when she read itHer knees
    were like water, and her heart was racingThe old fool! A half
    million dollars-that was probably more money than the bank had seen
    since before the War
    What was to stop the officers from just pocketing it and closing the
    bank? Banks were still closing all over the country, it was in the
    paper all the timeShe'd have to go to Atlanta at once, change the
    money to gold, add it to her safe boxBut that would take daysEven
    if there was a train today, she wouldn't get to the bank before
    Monday
    Plenty of time for her money to disappearA half million dollars
    More money than she'd have if she sold everything she owned twice
    over
    More money than her store and her saloon and her new houses would
    make
    in thirty yearsShe had to protect it, but how? Oh, she could kill
    Uncle Henry! When Pansy came upstairs proudly carrying the heavy
    silver tray with the gleaming coffee service on it, she was met by a
    pale, wild-eyed Scarlett"Put that thing down and get your coat on,"
    said Scarlett
    She had herself under control; there was even a little color in her
    cheeks from the walk when she hurried into the O 'Hara store
    Cousin or not, she didn't want Jamie to know too much about her
    businessSo her voice was charmingly girlish when she asked him to
    recommend a banker
    2:27 am
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    She couldn't see it; the inside of the hull was totally dark; but she
    knew it was soAlthough the boat was rising and falling with the
    surge of the waves in the same dizzying rhythm, the surface of the
    sheltered water was almost flat, no choppy little waves to break
    against her faceShe felt Rhett's louis vuitton vernis touch on her left footGood! I'm
    not really paralyzedScarlett took a deep breath for the first time
    since the storm hitHow strange her feet feltShe'd had no idea how
    heavy and constricting boots wereOh! The hand at her waist was
    strangefeelingShe could sense the sawing motion of the Jimmy choo knifeThen
    suddenly a tremendous weight slid down her legs and her shoulders
    bobbed up out of the waterShe cried out in surpriseThe sound of
    her cry reverberated in the hollow space beneath the wooden hullIt
    was so loud that she almost lost her handhold from the shock of it
    Then Rhett burst through the waterHe was ladies gucci watch very close to her"How
    do
    you feel?" he askedIt sounded as if he was shouting"Shhh," said
    Scarlett
    "How do you feel?" he asked quietly"Frozen nearly to death, if you
    really want to know
    "The water's cold, but not that coldIf we were in the North
    Atlantic-"
    "Rhett Butler, if you tell me one of your Gucci Clutches blockade-running
    adventure stories, I'll-I'll drown you!" His laughter filled the air
    around them and it seemed somehow to make it warmerBut Scarlett
    was
    still furious"How you can laugh at a time like this is beyond me
    It's not funny to be dangling in freezing water in the middle of a
    terrible chloe paddington stor
    Saturday, January 1st, 2011
    2:34 am
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    language of thought, it would have been impossible to lie, even had we wanted toHowever,
    anchored as we were, we told ourselves stories to alleviate the boredomStorytelling was the
    most honored of all talents, for it benefited everyone
    Sometimes, fact mixed with fiction so thoroughly that, though no lies were told, it was hard to
    remember what was strictly true
    When we thought of the new planet–Earth, so dry, so varied, and filled with such violent,
    destructive denizens we could barely Jimmy choo imagine them–our horror was sometimes overshadowed by
    our excitementStories spun themselves quickly around the thrilling new subjectThe
    wars–wars! our kind having to fight!–were first reported accurately and then embellished and
    fictionalizedWhen the stories conflicted with the official information I sought out, I naturally
    believed the first reports
    But there were whispers of this: of human hosts so strong that the souls were forced to
    abandon themHosts whose minds could not be completely suppressedSouls who took omega geneve on the
    personality of the body, rather than the other way around
    But that seemed almost to be the Healer's accusation
    I dismissed the thoughtThe more likely meaning of his censure was the distaste most of us felt
    for the Seeker's CallingWho would choose a life of conflict and pursuit? Who would be
    attracted to the chore of tracking down unwilling hosts and capturing them? Who would have
    the stomach to face the violence of this particular species, the hostile humans who killed so
    easily, so thoughtlessly? Here, balenciaga handbag on this planet, the Seekers had become practically a… militia–my
    new brain supplied the term for the unfamiliar conceptMost believed that only the least
    civilized souls, the least evolved, the lesser among us, would be drawn to the path of Seeker
    Still, on Earth the Seekers had gained new statusNever before had an occupation gone so
    awryNever before had it turned into a fierce and bloody battleNever before had the lives of so
    many souls been sacrificedThe Seekers stood as a mighty shield, and the souls of this santos cartier world
    were thrice-over indebted to them: for the safety they had carved out of the mayhem, for the risk
    of the final death that they faced willingly every day, and for the new bodies they continued to
    provide
    Now that the danger was virtually past, it appeared the gratitude was fadingAnd, for this
    Seeker at least, the change was not a pleasant one
    It was easy to imagine what her questions for me would beThough the Healer was trying to
    buy me time to adjust to my new body, I knew I would do my best to help the chloe dior Seeke
    2:27 am
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    spread through the parking area with the sight of the dead man and the shot-up sedan, he would
    disappear—with whom and with what vehicle would take hours to determine
    Bourne had to get inside; he had to stop him, take him! Krupkin had worried about the lives of
    “several dozen men and women”—he had no idea that in reality there were several hundred! Carlos
    would use whatever firepower he had stolen, including grenades, to create mass hysteria so that he
    could escapeLives meant nothing; if further killing was required to save his own, nothing
    Abandoning caution, Delta raced to the door, gripping his AK-47 laterally in his arm, the safety
    unlatched, rolex oyster perpetual daytona his index finger on the triggerHe grabbed the knob and twisted it—it would not turn
    He fired his weapon into the plated metal around the lock, then a second fusillade into the opposing
    frame, and as he reached for the smoking knob, his personal world went mad!
    Out of the line of vehicles a heavy truck suddenly shot forward, coming straight toward him,
    wildly accelerating as it approachedSimultaneously, successive bursts of automatic gunfire
    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
    403
    erupted, the bullets thumping into the wood to his rightHe lunged to his left, rolling on the ground,
    the dust and dirt filling his eyes as he kept rolling, his body a tube spinning away
    And then it earring chanel happened! The massive explosion tore apart the door, blowing away a large section
    of the wall above, and through the black smoke and settling debris, he could see a figure lurching
    awkwardly toward the semicircle of vehiclesHis killer was getting away after all, But he was
    alive! And the reason for it was obvious—the Jackal had made a mistakeNot in the trap, that was
    extraordinary; Carlos knew his enemy was with Krupkin and the KGB and so he had gone outside
    and waited for himInstead, his error was in the placement of the explosivesHe had wired the
    bomb or bombs to the top of the truck’s engine, not underneathExplosive compounds seek release
    through the least resistant barriers; Jimmy choo the relatively thin hood of a vehicle is far less solid than the iron
    beneath itThe bomb actually blew up, it did not blow out on ground level, sending death-inducing
    metal fragments along the surface
    No time! Bourne struggled to his feet and staggered to the Komitet sedan, a horrible fear coming
    into focusHe looked through the shattered windows, his eyes suddenly drawn to the front seat as a
    heavily fleshed hand was raisedHe yanked the door open and saw Krupkin, his large body
    squeezed below the seat under the dashboard, his right shoulder half torn away, bleeding flesh
    apparent through the fabric of his jacket
    “We are hurt,” said the KGB officer weakly but calmly“Aleksei white chanel watch somewhat more seriously than
    I am, so attend to him first, if you please
    “The crowd’s coming out of the armory—”
    “Here!” interrupted Krupkin, painfully reaching into his pocket and pulling out his plastic
    identification case“Get to the idiot in charge and bring him to meFor
    Aleksei, you damn foolHurry!”
    The two wounded men lay alongside each other on examining tables in the armory’s infirmary
    as Bourne stood across the room, leaning against the wall, watching but not understanding what
    was being saidThree doctors had been dispatched by helicopter from the roof of the People’s
    Hospital on the Serova Prospekt—two surgeons and an anesthesiologist, the last, however, purse louis vuitton proving
    unnecessary
    Friday, December 31st, 2010
    2:34 am
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    "Have you heard from your friend Wireman this
    morning?" Kamen rumbled"He left a message on my machine
    "And how is he doing?"
    WellThat was a long story, wasn't it? "He's
    coping, doing the funeral parlor thing
    "Go help him," Tom Riley said"That's your job
    for the omega watches prices day
    "Yes, indeed," Bozie added"You're grieving
    yourself, EdgarYou don't need to be playing host
    right now
    "I called the airport," Pam said, as if I had
    protested - which I hadn't"The Gulfstream's
    standing byAnd the concierge is helping to make
    the other travel arrangementsIn spy bag fendi the meantime,
    we've still got this morningThe question is,
    what do we do with it?"
    780
    We ended up doing what I had planned: we visited
    the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art
    v
    Early that afternoon, I found myself standing in
    the boarding area at Dolphin Aviation, chanel white watch kissing my
    friends and relatives goodbye, or shaking their
    hands, or hugging them, or all threeMelinda, Ric,
    and the Jamiesons were already gone
    Kathi Green the Rehab Queen kissed me with her
    usual ferocity"You take care of yourself,
    Edgar," she said"I love your paintings, omega automatic seamaster but I'm
    much more proud of the way you're walkingYou've
    made amazing progressI'd like to parade you in
    front of my latest generation of crybabies
    "You're tough, Kathi
    "Not so tough," she said, wiping her eyes"Truth
    is, I'm a freakin marshmallow
    Then Kamen was towering top chanel ove
    2:27 am
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    And maybe - I can't say for sure - it wouldn't
    have changed anything, because some force was at
    work, both on Duma Key and inside Edgar Freemantle
    Can I say that force brought me there? NoCan I
    say it didn't? No, I can't say that, eitherBut
    by the time March became April, it had begun to
    gain strength and ever so stealthily extend its
    reach
    646
    Elizabeth's ladies rolex watches damned picnic basket
    vii
    Wireman's hope that Elizabeth was coming around
    began to seem unjustifiedShe remained a
    muttering lump in her wheelchair, every now and
    then stirring enough to cry out for a cigarette in
    the cracked voice of an aging parrotHe hired
    Annmarie Whistler away from Bay Area Private
    Nursing to come in and help him four days a week
    The extra help might have eased Wireman's workload,
    but it did little to comfort gucci replica him; he was heartsore
    But that was something I only glimpsed from the
    corner of my eye as April rolled in, sunny and hot
    Because, speaking of hot
    Once Mary Ire's interview was published, I became
    a local celebrityWhy not? Artist was good,
    especially in the Sarasota areaArtist Who Used
    to Build Banks and Then Turned His Back on Mammon
    was betterOne-Armed Artist of Blazing Talent was
    the absolute Golden MotherfuckerDario and Tiffany Bracelets Jimmy
    647
    scheduled a number of follow-up interviews,
    including one with Channel 6I emerged from their
    Sarasota studio with a blinding headache and a
    complimentary CHANNEL 6 SUNCOAST WEATHER-WATCHER
    bumper sticker, which I ended up plastering on one
    of the MEAN DOGS sawhorses
    I also took over the Florida end of the traveland-
    hospitality arrangementsWireman was by then
    too busy trying to get Elizabeth to ingest
    anything gucci twirl watch but cigarette smokeI found myself
    consulting with Pam every two or three days about
    the guest-list from Minnesota and travel
    arrangements from other parts of the countryI thought she was making an effort
    to sound cheerful, but I could have been wrongMy
    attempts to find out how her love-life was
    progressing were kindly but firmly blocked
    Melinda called - to ask for my hat-size, of all
    thingsWhen I asked why, she wouldn't used louis vuitton tell
    Thursday, December 30th, 2010
    2:32 am
    @@@@@He gave to his church, to charities, to his
    @@@@@He gave to his church, to charities, to his foundationHe knew that to receive money, you had to give moneyGiving money is the secret to most great wealthy familiesThat is why there are organizations like the Rockefeller Foundation and the Ford FoundationThese are organizations designed to take their wealth and increase it, as well as give it away in perpetuity
    My educated dad always said, "When I have some extra money, I'll give it The problem was, there was never any extraSo he worked harder to draw more money in rather than focus on the most important law of money: "Give and you shall receive Instead, he believed in "Receive and then you give
    In conclusion, I became both dads One part of me is a hard-core capitalist who loves the game of money making moneyThe other side is ': a socially responsible teacher who is deeply concerned with this ever-widening gap between the haves and have notsI personally hold the archaic educational system primarily responsible for this growing gap

    CHAPTER EIGHT
    Overcoming Obstacles

    Once people have studied and become financially literate, they may still face roadblocks to becoming financially independentThere are five main reasons why financially literate people may still not develop abundant asset columnsAsset columns that could produce large sums of cash flowAsset columns that could free them to live the life they dream of, instead of working full time just to pay billsThe five reasons are:
    1Overcoming the fear of losing moneyI have never met anyone who really likes losing moneyAnd in all my years, I have never met a rich person who has never lost moneyBut I have met a lot of poor people who have never lost a dime
    The fear of losing money is realBut it's not fear that is the problemIt's how you handle
    2:27 am
    @@@@@ "Heavens no!" said rich dad"The government
    @@@@@
    "Heavens no!" said rich dad"The government always takes its share first
    "How do they do that
    "Taxes," said rich dad"You're taxed when you earnYou're taxed when you spendYou're taxed when you saveYou're taxed when you die
    "Why do people let the government do that to them?"
    "The rich don't," said rich dad with a smile"The poor and the middle class doI'll bet you that I earn more than your dad, yet he pays more in taxes
    "How can that be?" I askedAs a 9-year-old boy, that made no sense to me"Why would someone let the government do that to them?"
    Rich dad sat there in silenceI guess he wanted me to listen instead of jabber away at the mouth
    Finally, I calmed downI did not like what I had heardI knew my dad complained constantly about paying so much in taxes, but really did nothing about itWas that life pushing him around?
    Rich dad rocked slowly and silently in his chair, just looking at me
    "Ready to learn?" he asked
    I nodded my head slowly
    "As I said, there is a lot to learnLearning how to have money work for you is a lifetime studyMost people go to college for four years, and their education endsI already know that my study of money will continue over my lifetime, simply because the more I Find out, the more I find out I need to kno
    Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
    2:32 am
    @@@@@After enough time went by it was like
    @@@@@After enough time went by it was like amputating an arm
    He knew what would happenHe would be an enlisted man, a private, and the other enlisted men in whatever unit he would be assigned to would find out sooner or later that he had been an officer, and they would hate him for it, resent him, resent even the fact that he had resigned a commission, for it would mock their own ambitions conscious and unconsciousIf he did this, it would be with open eyes; there would be nothing cleaner at the end of it, certainly nothing more pleasantIt would be lousy and painful, and probably the only discovery would be that he could fit into a fear ladder as well as anyone elseHe had been running away from fear, from vulnerability, from the admission that he was a man also and could be humbledThere was a saying, "It is better to be the hunted than the hunter," and that had a meaning for him now, a value
    Mockingly, he could hear what Cummings would say to that"'A nice sentiment, Robert, one of the nice lies for today, just like the lie about a rich man not going to heaven And Cummings would laugh and say, "You know, Robert, it's only the rich who do go to heaven
    Well, the hell with CummingsHe had said that enough times in resentment, grudgingly, perhaps helplessly, but Cummings didn't know all the answersIf you granted him that man was a sonofabitch, then everything he said after that followed perfectlyThe logic was inexorable
    But the history wasn'tAll right, all the great dreams had blunted and turned practical and corrupt, and the good things had often been done through bad motives, but still it had not all been bad, there had also been victories where there should have been defeatsThe world, by all the logics, should have turned Fascist and it hadn't yet
    For a moment there were a few sounds in the valley beneath him, and he picked up his rifle and stared into the shadows of the grassIt became quiet againFor some reason he was left depressed
    It was a skinny enough hope, and all the pressures, all the machines, were squeezing men a little more; with every weapon the odds became a little more out of whackMorality against bombsEven the techniques of revolution were changed, were accomplished with armies against armies now, or not at all
    If the world turned Fascist, if Cummings had his century, there was a little thing he could doThere was always terro
    2:27 am
    @@@@@He remembered sitting in a bar once,
    @@@@@He remembered sitting in a bar once, pleasantly drunk, his hand around the hips of the woman beside him in the boothHe was going home with her in a few minutes, and a tingle of passion flushed through him at the thought"That's right, honey," he heard himself say, looking at the roots of the kunai grass before his nose
    Ah'm gonna die, Wilson told himselfA cold charge of fear awakened his body, and he whimpered for a momentHe pictured the bullet tearing through his body, ripping apart the flesh inside, and he felt nauseaA little bile welled out of his mouth"All that poison inside me is gonna be messin' aroun' now, jus' killin' me But he drifted away again, settled into the warm lapping content of his drowsiness and weaknessHe was no longer afraid of dyingThat bullet's gonna clean up mah insidesAll the pus'll be comin' out now, an' Ah'll be okayPappy said his granpappy used to have an ole nigger woman bleed him wheneveh he had the feverTha's jus' what Ah'm doin' nowHe looked mistily at the groundThe blood was sopping against his shirt front, which made him slightly uncomfortableHe held his hand over it, smiling faintly
    His eyes stared at the ground two inches awayTime hung still, unmoving about himHe felt the heat of the sun on his back; he dropped, submerged, in the chattering rhythms of the insect life about him, and the square foot of earth he could see became magnified until every grain stood out perfect and completeThe ground was no longer brown; it was a checkerboard of individual crystals, of red and white and yellow and black; his sense of dimension vanishedHe thought he was looking from an airplane at several fields and a patch of wood, and the tall grass blurred a few inches from the ground, became nebulous and shifting like cloud vaporsThe roots were surprisingly white with thick scaly bark stippled with brown like birch treesEverything he saw was proportioned to the size of a forest, but a new forest, one he had never seen before, and quite odd
    A few ants meandered past his nose, turned about to look up at him, and then waddled
    Monday, December 27th, 2010
    2:34 am
    @@@@@"I came to ask you a favor," he said He
    @@@@@"I came to ask you a favor," he said
    He wanted some feminine advice in selecting things for people back in
    Ireland"I can manage the lads myself, and their fathers, but the
    lasses are a mysteryScarlett will know, I told myself, what's the
    latest thing in America She laughed at his perplexed expression
    "I'd love to help, Colum, but you have to pay me-with a cup of coffee
    and a sweet roll at the bakery on Broughton Street She no longer
    felt tired at all"I don't know why you asked me to come with you,
    Colum! You don't like a single thing I've suggested Scarlett looked
    with exasperation at the piles of kid gloves, lace handkerchiefs,
    clocked silk stockings, beaded bags, painted fans, and lengths of
    silks, velvets, and satinsThe drapers' assistants had pulled out all
    the choicest wares of the most fashionable shop in Savannah, and
    Colum
    had shaken his head no to everything"I apologize for all the trouble
    I've given," he said to the stiffly smiling clerksHe offered
    Scarlett his arm"I beg your pardon, too, ScarlettI fear I didn't
    make it clear enough what I was wantingCome along, and I'll pay
    the
    debt I owe you; then we'll try once moreA cup of coffee would be
    welcome It was going to take more than a cup of coffee to make her
    forgive him for this wild goose chase! Scarlett ostentatiously ignored
    the proffered arm and sailed out of the shopHer temper improved
    when
    Colum suggested they go to the Pulaski House for coffeeThe huge
    hotel was very fashionable, and Scarlett had never been thereWhen
    they were seated on a tufted velvet settee in one of the ornate,
    marble-columned reception rooms, she looked around her with
    satisfaction"This is nice," she said happily when a white-gloved
    waiter brought a laden silver tray to the marble-topped table in front
    of them"You look right at home in your elegant finery amidst all the
    grand marble and potted palms," he said, smiling
    "That's why we crossed paths instead of travelling together
    People in Ireland, he explained, led lives more simple than Scarlett
    knewMore simple, perhaps, than she could even imagine
    2:27 am
    @@@@@Come anytime you likeMy kitchen door has no
    @@@@@Come anytime you likeMy kitchen door has no lock, and
    there's always a fire on the hearthJamie's a fine hand with the
    fiddle himself, too Jamie! Scarlett's got to goPut your coat
    on, man, and give her your arm Just before they turned the corner
    Scarlett heard the music begin againIt was faint because of the
    thick brick walls of the house and the windows closed against the
    winter nightBut she recognized what the O'Haras were singingIt
    was "The Wearing o' the Green I know all the words to that one; oh,
    I wish I hadn't had to leaveHer feet made little dance steps
    Jamie laughed and matched her"I'll teach you the reel next time," he
    promisedbore her aunts' tightlipped disapproval with easy
    disregard
    Even being called on the carpet by her grandfather failed to upset
    her
    She remembered Maureen O'Hara's off-handed dismissal of himOld
    loo-Ia, she thought, and giggled internally
    It made her brave and impertinent enough to sashay over to his bed
    and
    kiss his cheek after he dismissed her"Good night, Grandfather," she
    said cheerfully"Old loo-Ia," she whispered when she was safely in
    the hallShe was laughing when she joined her aunts at tableHer
    supper was brought promptlyThe plate was covered with a brightly
    shining silver dish cover to keep the food hotScarlett was sure it
    was newly polishedThis house could run really properly, she thought,
    if it just had someone to keep the servants in li
    Sunday, December 26th, 2010
    2:34 am
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