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had no privilege but a pass.<br />

"What was it all for then?" William Bredforet<br />

wanted to know.<br />

"That sobbed-over common man! He never had the<br />

brains or intestinal fortitude or balls or vision to build the<br />

goddamn country. Then the little weasels come along<br />

and whine, 'You can't keep all this to yourself, it's not<br />

fair!' Well, there were too many of them in the end,<br />

Ernie. They ate it all the way crows can eat a stag if he's<br />

down. And it's all gone now."<br />

The coach was gone. So too, it seemed, was the<br />

heiress. Gone and left her shares with all her heart to<br />

her immediate family. Like her ancestors, she had<br />

seized the moon, just a different one. Now she would<br />

miss the PATSY-sponsored premiere of the feminist<br />

film to which Tracy had invited her fellow club<br />

members. Now, when Evelyn screeched her Chrysler<br />

to a stop-on-a-dime (a dime's width away from the<br />

back bumper of Tracy's Volvo), Beanie had not been<br />

there waiting to go to the train station. Now, when<br />

Tracy and Priss, waiting by the curb for their tardy<br />

driver, scampered up the slope on seeing Evelyn's car

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