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Dingley Falls A novel by Michael Malone For a singer "Dodie" John Darwin Penland 1950–1979 Song's a good prayer. So is laughter. Copyright © 1980, 2002 by Michael Malone Cover and internal design © 2002 by Sourcebooks, Inc. Cover photo © Getty Images and Digital Vision First published in New York in 1980 by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means including information storage and retrieval systems—except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews—without permission in writing from its publisher, Sourcebooks, Inc. This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author's imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental. Published by Sourcebooks, Inc. P.O. Box 4410, Naperville, Illinois 60567-4410 (630) 961-3900
FAX: (630) 961-2168 www.sourcebooks.com Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Malone, Michael. Dingley Falls : a novel / by Michael Malone. p. cm. ISBN 1-4022-0007-2 (pbk.) 1. City and town life—Fiction. 2. Anonymous letters—Fiction. 3. Connecticut—Fiction. 4. Hate mail—Fiction. I. Title. PS3563.A43244 D56 2002 813'.54—dc21 2002006928 Printed and bound in the United States of America acknowledgments I've never understood why those who write fictions should not acknowledge debts as publicly as those who write facts. I'd like to thank Mrs. Arthur E. Case for her generous friendship, and Dr. Barbara Otto and Dr. J.J. Quilligan, Jr., for consenting with such kind cheer to diagnose the peculiar symptoms afflicting Dingleyans. During the four years it has taken to finish Dingley Falls, numbers of readers, both in and out of what is for some odd reason called "the industry," have given me good criticism, wise advice, and warm support. My heartfelt appreciation to them all.
Page 8 and 9: the people (in alphabetical order)
Page 10 and 11: ookworm, gossip, and sleuth. Maynar
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
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made her Mrs. Maynard Henry that ve
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Judith Haig walked quietly home to
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They called me 'Dickie.' So Beatric
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"Luke Packer's following you," Poll
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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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