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ookworm, gossip, and sleuth. Maynard Henry Unemployed construction worker; Vietnam veteran. Chin Lam Henry His nineteen-year-old wife; a Vietnamese refugee. Father Sloan Highwick Affable sixty-six-year-old Rector of St. Andrew's. Mrs. Highwick His mother; a senile painter. Prudence Lattice Lonely spinster in her sixties; owner of a tea shop that has fallen on hard times. Joe MacDermott Hawk Haig's assistant. Sarah O'Reilly MacDermott His wife; gabby, ebullient cashier at the Madder A&P; mother of five boys; self-elected best friend of Judith Haig. Alf Marco Dingley Falls's colorless postman. Sebastian Marco His younger brother; a moody gardener. Carl Marco, Sr. Their older brother; a self-made Madderite merchant; tract developer; aspiring philanthropist. Carl Marco, Jr. His son; a muscular ophthalmologist.
Sgt. Fred Myers A desk clerk at the Argyle jail; a philosopher. Orchid O'Neal Sarah MacDermott's widowed older sister; a house cleaner. Jerry Packer Bartender at the Dingley Club. Luke Packer His seventeen-year-old son; a bright, restless film buff. Susan Packer Luke's older sister; secretary to Abernathy & Abernathy. Richard Rage Lascivious avant-garde poet. Ernest Ransom The most influential man in Dingley Falls; the meticulous, methodical president of Ransom Bank. Priss, Mrs. Ernest Ransom His chic, satiric wife; college friend of Beanie and Tracy. Emerald Ransom Their eldest child; a practiced beauty. Kate Ransom Emerald's younger sister; a Vassar senior long wooed by Sidney Blossom. Ray Ransom Their son; a braggart. Walter Saar Headmaster of Alexander Hamilton Academy; a sleek, witty, aesthete homosexual secretly
Page 2 and 3: Dingley Falls A novel by Michael Ma
Page 8 and 9: the people (in alphabetical order)
Page 12 and 13: possessed of most of the old-fashio
Page 14 and 15: have worn her daughter's clothes if
Page 16 and 17: "Just three days. Meanwhile, I'd ra
Page 18 and 19: had been safely preserved, like an
Page 20 and 21: alone. So while Sebastian grimaced
Page 22 and 23: their white dresses and huge horseh
Page 24 and 25: infatuated, accepted the third and
Page 26 and 27: George-Albans, "but really!" The br
Page 28 and 29: painters their townhouse in Manhatt
Page 30 and 31: the Village Voice as "The Baudelair
Page 32 and 33: asked Beanie to drive Rage first to
Page 34 and 35: smiled. "Sorry," he shrugged. "Look
Page 36 and 37: "Oh, read it!" begged her friend. "
Page 38 and 39: Raoul Treeca up on Wild Oat Ridge
Page 40 and 41: grabbing between his tan thighs for
Page 42 and 43: "Jonathan. Ahem. Good." Saar coughe
Page 44 and 45: "I'd like that," Jonathan murmured.
Page 46 and 47: "And death," said Beanie, who did n
Page 48 and 49: Dingley Falls's own Dr. Scaper, big
Page 50 and 51: purchases. The man in line behind h
Page 52 and 53: made her Mrs. Maynard Henry that ve
Page 54 and 55: Judith Haig walked quietly home to
Page 56 and 57: They called me 'Dickie.' So Beatric
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friend to a genetic mechanism that
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Ladies' leftovers. It was not his f
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tipsy Beanie. "I like your voice,"
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lapse into intermittent French when
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"Oh, Priss, I don't believe Sloan e
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knees, her soft plaid skirt wadded
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omantic, magic in its self-possessi
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"I saw you were still open. Is this
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Dixwell High. "Ben Rough still your
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"I," he mumbled, "have heart troubl
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Dingley's, but he saw no one along
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nation itself." "We? I feel I may w
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was no answer." "Where in g.d.h. co
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he played the piano. "My clock radi
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sense of direction." "I've got a go
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once. In Singapore. Limber as a rai
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efore she could pretend to almost d
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Priss, who really wished Evelyn wou
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it was your jewels she was after."
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"Much more dramatic way of finishin
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"Oh my, oh my, oh my," said Tracy.
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"Ernest, I'm sorry but could you he
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as she went into the wet blind curv
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up officially unless I do. Arthur a
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He remembered how he had been so su
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"Rich! Rich Rage!" "Mr. Rage?" Rans
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Chief John "Hawk" Haig had built hi
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squirrels. People decided Haig had
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eliminate their enemies, hour by ho
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Dressed for sleep now, she sits in
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oozed shut sprang at the screen doo
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pretty much forgotten about what A.
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head…. By God, women will, in goo
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another way into the marshland, fro
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part of his land to the federal gov
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the Lord is no longer perswaded we
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Rage. So entangled are we in our ow
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sense of rightness Ernest Ransom ha
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design or a complex of technology a
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water and over clouds and called it
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part two chapter 12 The librarian S
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Tuesday morning at 8:50 her husband
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her kickstand. Her age was such a r
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called, if she had provided herself
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ight: Beanie would be home before h
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she drove to the pound in Argyle an
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a Congregationalist four. Even afte
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pursed her lips primly. "Hum. It me
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superior. "I don't think I'm much h
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national landmarks, which no one wa
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Possibly it might bear the Ransom f
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egan. Construction workers praised
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engineers, who, with the same impre
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Except some people weren't happy. N
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Stooped down now, he worked his way
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What he had told himself he would n
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atheist he had become in high schoo
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"Family?" "Fine." (Civilization is
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"Something about your ad?" Spend ti
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humor," suggested Hayes. But Barnum
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Antiques, Hobbies, and Appliances s
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Mrs. Vincent Canopy and Mrs. Ernest
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gazebo of dyed yellow hair? I think
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"I mean," said Mrs. Ransom, "my dea
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she and Tracy had always played the
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later, however, Mrs. Cecil Hedgerow
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more I wish you hadn't died." By ta
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Remember how we never even used to
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You know, nothing has ever been rea
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The right to bear arms was one thin
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herringbone I almost got him at Pen
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granddaughter—" Sarah grabbed a j
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He has His own reasons, and if Jesu
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machine gun for?" "Oh, not for the
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order. He had loved animals, but ha
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"Oh, yes, you said so last night."
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got to come. May get a recruit. Nei
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Nevertheless, each of them called h
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Jonathan—absurd for me to call a
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could die. Public execution! Think
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"Hello, Mr. Smalter." He came close
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"Of course not. Yes, you must know
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"Hi, Mr. Abernathy," Luke waved. Bu
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Luke dragged over a chair, bumping
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"Up yours, you'd love it." "Up your
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nostrils flared and his fingers sto
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above a young girl's bureau. Ransom
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Like his only child, Polly, Hedgero
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Luke had outlasted even Ray Ransom,
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a placating smile for Joy, who igno
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flood, or on the Orient Express, or
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Blossom) not only conversed easily
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Ransom on the floor in front of her
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instead. Out of the Dingley Day sau
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unentangled. Of course, Madame Curi
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Dorian Gray (in another of Miss Gof
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science student, during a summer to
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attempting, and feared he would fai
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was, "Sid. I hate being called Sidn
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Finally the lawyer, accepted an off
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"They're all alike, think alike, ta
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the guy up.…Ah, sir, your child,
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in his bed and begged not to be sen
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Now I'm talking about another Ameri
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Maynard Henry. Your husband has imp
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need was most imperative. Mrs. Haig
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does, I am sorry, he does not like
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to do. The Society had great hopes
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artists, Habzi Rabies would have th
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into her pumpkin pine four-poster c
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The head of Marcus Antistius Labeo,
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patience with them. She had apparen
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over, drop them, and head back home
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successfully among all her boxes an
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and someone couldn't think where el
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illusion, before Beanie could catch
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decided to give them. Probably only
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With such easy adaptability, Highwi
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Walter Saar, on the other hand, was
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against it. They should have heard
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public court record. Particularly w
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The secret service behind the secre
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snapped Dr. Svatopluk, "those missi
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my disbelief " was the hymn Ramona
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Dixwell High School. The beginning
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live with your aunt. You're the gro
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washed, but not ironed; the lawn mo
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Scaper, "Ida, don't tell me I have
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Scheherazade to insist on breakfast
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feared that if Christ had come carr
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He had been ten. We have followed t
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Depart in peace, Alleluia. Too late
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stepped back into the sunshine. He
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Smalter. "Have you a scarf? Ah, wel
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interesting to talk to, he was cert
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with the baking. "The child looked
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Makes you wonder where it is. See,
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us, be Siamese twins, we're so mush
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three months' parole from school an
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luck, or timing, or help, or skills
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devil, as his southern relatives ha
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Cecil's for the game tonight?" "Gue
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"Pure as a baby's tears. Nah, there
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meant Evelyn Troyes and a blur of r
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as you is," snorted his driver. "Da
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sounded like childish fingers waggl
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"Wounded in foreign places, aha! Th
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ten feet of me unless I could keep
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and stews had often made him queasy
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and I gather there is little money.
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"I see." "I was raised by the Siste
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snapped. She was walking back throu
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Special Future. Now, on the steps o
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Luke that they had been, that Luke
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Cliffs of Dover, than Luke Packer h
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was she felt she was somehow losing
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"Thanks. I'll pay you back when I i
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"I know that, I've ridden double a
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you want? Place is claustrophobic.
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acquainted. Then I'll come to busin
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"Me?" "Took me awhile to realize wh
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wonderful to know that her mother (
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that jolted the girl back into the
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"Nobody's said a word about such a
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ailway car stuffed with purple plus
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generations of Dingleys had never t
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tear at them like a huge, gray woun
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these days." Had Walter Saar not be
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"Oh, is it peut-être Puccini?" sig
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an itsy bit impatient? Evelyn, real
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compartment door that the rector wa
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That mess in the bowl did make rath
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pain, Saar's pain was not, he chide
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somewhere beyond her, looked bruise
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Hemlock. Locust. I'd figure them ou
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the record store; a music lover. Co
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specimen." He looked like, what? A
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like it here?" "It sucks. You can w
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trouble. That true?" "You ask a lot
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a story for you, you can write it b
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"Just drink me a beer. I can't affo
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woman in a Red Army uniform. They s
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wants Dr. Meddrop to see her lover
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and you end up going to meetings ev
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Haven't eaten in about a week eithe
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"Sweetheart, that's Louie Daytona.
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greensleeves was his heart of gold,
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"No, Prissie." Beanie had never sai
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asked Rich Rage. "Yes," Beanie answ
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Richard Rage was saying that he lov
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idding. "Love it!" he shouted. "Loo
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more sense than magic. Of course, t
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translated all they had not said. W
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Beanie is?" "Oh, Tracy! Pourquoi do
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"This is she." "This is Judith Haig
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eally sure she ought to go back to
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"You know what I mean, slept with s
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"But, naturally, she falls in love.
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Anyhow, Hawk always said how Maynar
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is so silly. I hope you're feeling
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"Here, take these off." "Hey. Kate!
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Prudence Lattice had never meant to
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without leaving behind explanation
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Vietnamese girl lay curled on her s
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historical romance she had bought f
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Mary, and of Bill Deeds—maneuvers
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get into the big appliances. Everyb
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things had stood in his way, blocki
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was only staring indomitably at Lim
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satisfaction. Then, his eyes fixed
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He thought no further of the woman
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the moon and stars, long after the
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warm, freeze, or throb. Our hearts
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abnormalities at the exam, nothing
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Boston, huh? Got Mrs. Haig out ther
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one or the other of these actions;
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apparently, if we are to take them
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visitors. "Would you want to go so
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Pentagon interference, it was the f
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cell, and (b) people built up immun
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know, old hat for us. Right through
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The survivors were over sixty-five
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"In a manner of speaking. We're wor
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for lift-off. "A nice machine," sni
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"Of course." Wolton's voice glided
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just now slammed the (helicopter) d
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chapter 34 Like a Busby Berkeley ch
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the robe and face and outstretched
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disturbed (more precisely, dissolve
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Ransom. In a blue sweat suit he jog
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"Good-bye, Ida." "Oh. Good-bye, hon
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spouse. Entering the Dingley Day at
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William instead. I remember seeing
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eing alone had never bothered him i
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"For God's sake, Ernest, please!" a
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"A what note?" "A love letter. Have
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a cigarette, studied her slacks and
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wallpaper and bureau and rug she'd
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I tell you something, will you swea
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she said it looked like you, the ha
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Along the path they slowly plunked
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about. Mr. Mr. Wrath? No. Mr. Rage.
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Nonononono. The secret's in the Pro
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her, he had been long disconnected.
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sent him to the refrigerator for th
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doctors know this?" He kissed her.
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a twinge of Oglethorpe. Had he not
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Hamilton Academy would ever write a
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in." "Can you spare a second?" "Of
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not to analyze the fact that Jonath
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"Did you know old Oglethorpe died e
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Mr. Oglethorpe teach Yeats?" (Why w
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every tatter in its mortal dress.'"
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that well." "Doesn't matter a bit,
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She leaned on her elbow out the win
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limited to two a year. As individua
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she always did. "Walk down this pat
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when he founded the town. Elijah on
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"Mr. Ransom's engaged just now, Mis
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Explains why my mail was late and m
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you. Goodbye then," she said. "See
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"It's no go, Lance. Ask her. So, se
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"Lance." Lance grinned. "Waiting fo
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carcinogens." "Sounds good to me."
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out the gleaming drive. chapter 38
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"Yes. Do you know, is he well off?
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saw that their memories couldn't pl
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for bail?" "People want collateral.
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cheek, then up and down his leg. "H
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"No." "Did you tell someone to?" "N
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"Whether it's really between you an
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any other business. The little guy'
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irresolutely at the door of his son
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"A little. Is Mrs. Henry free?" "I'
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listened to the lawyer, her fingers
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"Oh, I'm sorry, thank you, yes. I g
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marriage between Beatrice and young
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head filled with thrillers, and tha
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egarding Joy, Luke had asked the qu
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dropped there on Tuesday. And then
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they could still shoot. They don't
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"I told you it was there," Polly sa
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"Yes." Polly nodded. "Now, these ch
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ack toward Dingley Falls. She did n
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"Beanie!" he yelled. "Hell's bells,
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station." They stood in the middle
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everything but the sports section,
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seconde, / De vouloir se mêler à
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somehow managed to raise two perfec
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warmed the tip in her hand, then tr
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around in circles about when are we
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going to feel about outside amplifi
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eing prepared, for the most part by
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not. Especially after Paris fell."
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'Course, Judith, you can back-order
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Sleeping Beauty. She turned it up a
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smile into the dining room. It was
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no attention to this mess. Don't yo
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Now Lance shook his head at the off
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mouth?" He pushed his chair into th
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Maturity, wealth, talent, degrees,
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thirty-one years, Arthur was no lon
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spying through the bamboo shades to
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Ransom?) Now, what was she going to
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that I could never grasp, is repeat
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ackyard when his foot hit something
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Left behind by the party at the poo
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it was only 12:30. In the living ro
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ehind and in his huge bear hug lift
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ought to have some Valium. I filled
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dumb bastard's busted a couple of h
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get you all upset about him being i
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were acts of God, punishments exact
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victim of his sexual assault. As fo
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mother of successful sons, benefact
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into the silence. The bolt was lock
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wanted to be able to wish for Limus
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"Oh, hey, yeah. In Connecticut, was
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What had they done, defected? Flown
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to his wife, which of course was hi
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Apparently they had. It was there i
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seafood platters, Colonel Harry rem
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for what was ours, he'd turned in h
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shoe was the swelling face of Bob (
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Thursday afternoon, seen two of the
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The Bredforet land bequeathed him h
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unguarded trailer. What everyone ca
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egulation. Oh, I remember hearing h
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after their restless owners had ret
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hadn't cost him a job. Raoul hadn't
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porticos. In Astor Heights he await
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mourned his brother. Now, as he dro
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on everybody. But, of course, Orchi
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down the Falls before a soul could
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those police shows on TV, the way t
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Madder would sit down with the ange
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Children gone in an instant while s
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estate to a herd of Catholic lepers
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Sammy, you never could let yourself
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think you can subpoena the universe
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danced naked on Dingley Green. He f
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Smalter noticed Hayes's paper cup a
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ack, the door rattled, and in its c
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Orchid O'Neal found Miss Dingley at
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possible? Peggy was quite beside he
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drove past. Next door, the Argyle S
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while she stepped to the window to
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never actually known her except to
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Xerxes, into the clothes washer and
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shit," or, "Let's go zap some of th
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Gautamaula (sp.) Phil knows this co
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an explorer's balloon above Wild Oa
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Winslow and Mr. Rage, Beanie could
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We'll go to the Lake Country. Not L
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it, puttered around. She was reglui
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walked around her to say to Priss,
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Strummers? They have a girl? She di
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going to England, and having somebo
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compound up there. You let those Wa
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Ransom hid his hands in the pockets
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Gangsters behave like General Motor
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Somerset Maugham for thirty years!"
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"They're divorced." "Oh. That's rig
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think Carl Marco wanted to see me.
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After all, he had not lied to her.
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no room for them here. Yes, Uncle W
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had particularly wished that somebo
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sipped his Bloody Mary. "Well, why
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that. That's the truth, I'll be on
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known the girl by sight, seemed wro
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"These post-coital light-ups." He g
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At the kaffeeklatsch of the women's
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she knew that beyond a shadow of a
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asked the reflection. "Sure. Sid,"
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Kate jerked out of the chair. "Fuck
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her lipstick, "I never know which i
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Buggers? What is that, is that real
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surgeon, trial lawyer, congressman,
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Then, leaving Sniffell absorbed in
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Hayes heard low, murmuring voices.
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Hayes knew that that was the end of
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imagine falling in love and having
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pressure. "Whole town's falling apa
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the ranks of the Ku Klux Klan than
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Good ass from the rear. But do it t
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this post office? Like a sweat shop
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Boobs with nipples and they got har
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if everyone else either would not o
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Prudence Lattice was bent behind th
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In the Bredforets' air-conditioned
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Dr. Deeds had been leafing slowly t
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Dr. Scaper had only vaguely heard o
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jacking up a step with bricks, watc
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whereas Raoul Treeca prickled his s
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today. Heat? He thought about stand
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of standing so many feet to the fro
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away. She had forced herself to wal
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quickly back and hurried away to Lo
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to keep my eye out for him when he
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definition of humanity because the
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didn't, but still. Well, what can w
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But the Abernathys' home had no air
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intolerableness of his own marriage
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language. Yes, thought Winslow as h
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simply sign over Dingley Optical In
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mean take the time. It takes time t
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surveyor's report. Somebody had bee
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protection of the post office news
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Haig flapped his paper shut and saw
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"You told Joe you'd come to the sta
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cartons and bottles, to find a can
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his family, then his teachers, and
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doing was shaking her until her nec
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escaped earlier. But by chance thes
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patted one of Chin's. In her living
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in the mirror paralyzed him. The ey
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hostility toward his fellow Dingley
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keep himself behind the counter of
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easy." With a nod at Joe MacDermott
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You scared me to death!" Indignantl
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know that little lunch place next t
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Maynard Henry, cursing loudly again
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place, but still. It makes it kind
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that would get him in good with eve
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for him. Judith's heart swelled wit
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Mercy in Madder had admitted to him
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holding her breath, lifted the rece
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etter he'll like it, because what h
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ut the sound disappeared. Other car
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was in the house. Judith made herse
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explore the house, while his head s
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don't I, and I'll give Hawk a call,
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and all his things it had taken so
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hear me?" Then he unzipped and open
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if she could just keep from coming
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in the stiff sprayed hair, like pla
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around it? Why couldn't she pick up
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hands down between them. A choked g
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world still babbled. He caught at h
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swept you up in it. But then guys w
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savage. Henry rammed his shoulder a
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astonishment, incisive, punctured t
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he was knocked sideways by the shot
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obe into knot after knot. "Listen,
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lack German shepherd's head lolled
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Maynard Henry had not even allowed
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"Ah, you know better. She's up on t
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opened empty patrol car, its light
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andaged mitts. "It could head strai
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path. It might work. And it might r
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Shocked, Hayes realized he was gett
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Look what You've been doing here! T
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That Thursday afternoon in a Hertz
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what he could dig up, happily warni
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otherwise sound as a dollar. A big
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leakage about them could well be de
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the van by Brickhart himself. "I kn
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Demolition had its peculiar carnal
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ought nothing into this world and i
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fucking? Or are we going to be the
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crap much longer since apparently h
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many horror stories and had heard o
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Haig. Dr. Deeds was angry. In the C
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The doctor's hands moved gently as
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years, had been lowered to half-mas
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selectman, might not be a possibili
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this was definitely the worst in a
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Road. Both tall, lanky, free-limbed
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have a right to do what men do, muc
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sold it. To a retired tax lawyer wh
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it was a remark she regretted not b
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"I ain't talking about the clothes
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"You mean Art." "You got his name.
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had moved her hand down that arrow
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photographers from small-time newsp
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extraordinary, so discontinuous wit
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"Judith's best friend." He was repe
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And then Mrs. MacDermott told him w
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"Know what you feel, Winslow!" Bean
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itself was not strong enough to con
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they advanced on Berlin. Even rumor
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fishtailed when the lawyer, accusto
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Abernathy's consciousness. Its furn
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your upcoming trial and your quarre
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anymore. Why should I play if I can
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slight chance. "Fuck it," he remind
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This wasn't what life was like, cer
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(with a note pinned to his front do
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at the beautiful bloodshot eyes of
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certain of his personal preoccupati
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into his hand. "Oh," he noticed. "W
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Dingley Falls had not been so commu
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his head at human nature or voted o
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"Yeah. She talk to you?" "Yes. How'
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The lawyer nodded. "Yes." They were
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others me. And, I don't know, a cou
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"No. It won't go to trial. As prese
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was that Limus Barnum was responsib
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"Forget it, man! If I owe you, you
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his uneven features smoothed into t
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ag onto his broad, cashmered should
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Jerry Packer not want his family to
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founder, had fled England to escape
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don't judge Winslow, whatever you d
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places. He had always intelligently
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halt (halted by misfortunes mental,
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"Young man? Excuse me, young man? C
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"Oh, Sammy, listen, I know, I know.
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myself. She's seen enough dying. Te
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Smalter said nothing. The two men,
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down his drink, which Hayes (entire
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your toilet?" "Shit. Are you going
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Nope. You know that?" "Yes, love it
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to the secret of their owner than a
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ed now." chapter 64 Tracy Canopy's
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photograph. And still now in that g
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Beanie. And why assume that someone
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senior, were at somewhat looser end
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Highwick ought to retire?" "That's
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toenails and blouse were red, her s
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less of Judith Haig for doing it. S
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press against his wound. Last night
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Falls had but one exchange, and the
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through its glass dome, she had fal
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extend her vacation beyond Tuesday.
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Smalter had relentlessly trained hi
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had learned from listening to Beatr
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tawny hair, and next the sound of h
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it, bringing it jobs, getting its h
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grateful for what Judith had tried
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child of a Madder factory girl whom
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elying on his general maxim that it
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ahead to speak in tongues so all th
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And the minister laughed and said,
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celestially scrubbed and robed, san
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silver cup of wafers and behind him
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