Michael Malone - Weebly

A guy in my class; he takes pictures for the paper. Do
you think it's something criminal? I mean, maybe we'll
get arrested."
"I think just about everything to do with the
government's criminal. Give men the means for grand
larceny and they'll commit it.
Every other kind of atrocity you can come up with.
They'll go at it happy as boys with slingshots in an
abandoned glass house." Ramona poured another glass
of port. "What you say you saw up there, very
disturbing. I don't like it. I'm an old woman. The
government's got the power now, and I'm used to the
rich having it. When they did, they were all crooks too,
of course. Well, we'll see. Take those pistachios home.
Yes. I knew we'd get on. First time I saw you on that
red bicycle. Used to have one myself. Now, you see,
I'm still on wheels."
chapter 27
Gone were the ample, untaxing days when Beanie's
grandparents, Charles and Camilla Dingley, had ridden
to Knickerbocker balls and banquets in a private