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    Monday, January 3rd, 2011
    12:27 pm
    @@@@@ I gave him a glum look, then made my way
    @@@@@
    I gave him a glum look, then made my way carefully into the black room
    I tried to remember how the floor went–I was sure I had a few feet before the edge of the
    waterI took off my shoes first, so that I could feel for the water with my toesI remembered the inky appearance of the pool–ripe with suggestions of
    what might lurk beneath its opaque surface–and shudderedBut the longer I waited, the longer I
    would have to be here, so I put the clean clothes next to my shoes, kept the smelly soap, and
    shuffled forward carefully until I found the lip of the pool
    The water was cool compared to the steamy air of the outer cavernThat didn't
    keep me from being terrified, but I could still appreciate the sensationIt had been a long time
    since anything had beencoolStill fully dressed in my dirty clothes, I waded in waist deepI
    could feel the stream's current swirl around my ankles, hugging the rockI was glad the water
    was not stagnant–it would be upsetting to sully it, filthy as I was, if that were the case
    I crouched down into the ink until I was immersed to my shouldersI ran the coarse soap over
    my clothes, thinking this would be the easiest way to make sure they were cleanWhere the
    soap touched my skin, it burned mildly
    I took off the soapy clothes and scrubbed them under the waterThen I rinsed them again and
    again until there was no way any of my sweat or tears could have survived, wrung them out, and
    laid them on the floor beside where I thought my shoes were
    The soap burned more strongly against my bare skin, but the sting was bearable because it
    meant I could be clean againWhen I was done lathering, my skin prickled everywhere and my
    scalp felt scaldedIt seemed as if the places where the bruises had formed were more sensitive
    than the rest of me–they must still have been thereI was happy to put the acidic soap on the
    rock floor and rinse my body again and again, the way I had my clothes
    It was with a strange mingling of relief and regret that I sloshed my way out of the poolThe
    water was very pleasant, as was the feeling of clean, if prickling, skinBut I'd had quite enough
    of the blindness and the things I could imagine into the darknessI felt around until I found the
    dry clothes, then I pulled them quickly on and shoved my water-wrinkled feet into my shoesI
    carried my wet clothes in one hand and the soap gingerly between two fingers of the othe
    10:35 am
    @@@@@"I never got great at it, but I got good
    @@@@@"I never got great at it,
    but I got good enough to win the sixth-grade
    986
    Talent CompetitionMy Dad hung the medal on his
    office wallThat meant a lot to me
    "Yeah," Wireman said"There's nothing like an
    atta-boy from a doubtful dad
    Jack smiled, and as always, it illuminated his
    whole faceHe shifted a little, and Noveen
    shifted with him"Best thing, though? I was a shy
    kid, and ventriloquism broke me out a littleIt
    got easier to talk to people - I'd sort of pretend
    I was MortonMorton was a
    wiseass who'd say anything to anybody
    "They all are," I said"It's a rule, I think
    "Then I got into junior high, and ventriloquism
    started to seem like a nerd talent compared to
    skateboarding, so I gave it upI don't know what
    happened to the bookThrow Your Voice, it was
    calledThe house breathed dankly around
    usA little while ago, Wireman had killed a
    charging alligatorI could hardly believe that
    now, even though my ears were still ringing from
    the gunshots
    987
    Then Wireman said: "I want to hear you do itMake
    her say, 'Buenos días, amigos, mi nombre es Noveen,
    and la mesa is leakingIf you don't do it for awhile, you
    forget how
    And from my own research, I knew he could be right
    In the matter of learned skills, memory comes to a
    fork in the roadDown one branch are the it'slike-
    riding-a-bicycle skills; things which, once
    learned, are almost never forgottenBut the
    creative, ever-changing forebrain skills have to
    be practiced almost daily, and they are easily
    damaged or destro
    Sunday, January 2nd, 2011
    12:27 pm
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    gold gucci watch,chanel classic bag,gucci ladies watches,chanel silver,vintage gucci@@@@@He looked like a professional football playerDalleson was no problem; he even had potentialities for being a good man
    Hobart was easy too; the Great American BullyHobart was the only one who had not been a Regular Army first sergeant, but almost as good, he had been a bank clerk or the manager of a chain store branchWith a lieutenancy in the National GuardHe was what you would expect; he never disagreed with anyone above him and never listened to his subordinatesYet he wanted to be liked by bothHe blustered and cajoled, was always the good guy for the first gold gucci watch fifteen minutes you knew him, with the rutted gross patois of the American Legion-Rotary-Chamber of Commerce, and afterward distrusted you with the innate, insecure and blinding arrogance of his stampHe was plump and cherubic with sullen pouting cheeks and a thin little mouth
    Hearn had never doubted these impressions for a momentDalleson, Conn and Hobart were always lumped togetherHe saw the differences, actually disliked Dalleson a little less than the others, recognized the distinctions in their features, their abilities, and yet they were equated in the sweep chanel classic bag of his contemptThey had three things in common, and Hearn threw out all the other divergencesThey were first of all red-faced, and Hearn's father, a very successful mid-western capitalist, had always been floridSecondly, they all had tight thin little mouths, a personal prejudice of his, and third, worst of all, none of them for even an instant had ever doubted anything they had ever said or done
    Several people had at one time or another made it a point to tell Hearn that he liked men only in the abstract and never in the particular, a cliché of course, an gucci ladies watches oversimplification, but not without casual truthHe despised the six field officers at the adjacent table because no matter how much they might hate kikes, niggers, Russians, limeys, micks, they loved one another, tampered gleefully with each other's wives at home, got drunk together without worrying about dropping their guard, went joyously through their income-bracket equivalents of shooting up a whorehouse on Saturday nightBy their very existence they had warped the finest minds, the most brilliant talents of Hearn's generation into something sick, more insular chanel silver than the Conn-Dalleson-HobartsYou always ended by catering to them, or burrowing fearfully into the little rathole still allowed
    And the heat by now had banked itself in the tent, was almost licking at his bodyThe mutter, the clatter of tinware against tinware rasped like a file against his brainA mess orderly scurried by, putting a bowl of canned peaches on each of the tables
    "You take that fellow Conn mentioned a famous labor leader"Now, I know for a fact, by God --" his red nose wagging mulishly behind his point -- "that he's got a nigger woman for a vintage gucci mistress
    10:35 am
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    mens gucci watches,louis vuitton multicolore,Cartier Tortue,chanel top,top chanel@@@@@Cottager’s wife is a very pretty
    part, I assure youThe old lady relieves the high-flown benevolence
    of her husband with a good deal of spiritYou shall be Cottager’s
    wife
    “Cottager’s wife!” cried Mr“What are you talking of? The
    most trivial, paltry, insignificant part; the merest commonplace; not
    a tolerable speech in the wholeYour sister do that! It is an insult to
    propose itAt Ecclesford the governess was to have mens gucci watches done itWe all
    agreed that it could not be offered to anybody elseA little more
    justice, MrManager, if you pleaseYou do not deserve the office, if
    you cannot appreciate the talents of your company a little better
    119
    Jane Austen
    “Why, as to that, my good friend, till I and my company have
    really acted there must be some guesswork; but I mean no disparagement
    to JuliaWe cannot have two Agathas, and we must have
    one louis vuitton multicolore Cottager’s wife; and I am sure I set her the example of moderation
    myself in being satisfied with the old ButlerIf the part is trifling
    she will have more credit in making something of it; and if she
    is so desperately bent against everything humorous, let her take
    Cottager’s speeches instead of Cottager’s wife’s, and so change the
    parts all through; he is solemn and pathetic enough, I am sureIt
    could make no difference Cartier Tortue in the play, and as for Cottager himself,
    when he has got his wife’s speeches, I would undertake him with all
    my heart
    “With all your partiality for Cottager’s wife,” said Henry Crawford,
    “it will be impossible to make anything of it fit for your sister, and
    we must not suffer her good-nature to be imposed onWe must not
    allow her to accept the partShe must not be left to her own complaisance
    Her talents will be wanted chanel top in AmeliaAmelia is a character
    more difficult to be well represented than even AgathaI consider
    Amelia is the most difficult character in the whole pieceIt
    requires great powers, great nicety, to give her playfulness and simplicity
    without extravaganceI have seen good actresses fail in the
    partSimplicity, indeed, is beyond the reach of almost every actress
    by professionIt requires a delicacy of feeling which they top chanel have
    Saturday, January 1st, 2011
    12:35 pm
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    black and white bags,Jimmy choo,chanel bag classic,chanel sale ,rolex watches for sale@@@@@By the bye, Flora Ross was
    dying for Henry the first winter she came outBut were I to attempt
    to tell you of all the women whom I have known to be in love with
    him, I should never have doneIt is you, only you, insensible Fanny,
    who can think of him with anything like indifferenceBut are you
    so insensible as you profess yourself? No, no, I see you are not
    There was, indeed, so deep a blush over Fanny’s face at that moment
    as might warrant strong black and white bags suspicion in a predisposed mind
    “Excellent creature! I will not tease youEverything shall take its
    courseBut, dear Fanny, you must allow that you were not so absolutely
    unprepared to have the question asked as your cousin fancies
    It is not possible but that you must have had some thoughts on the
    subject, some surmises as to what might beYou must have seen
    that he was trying to please you by every attention in his power
    Was not he devoted to you at the ball? And Jimmy choo then before the ball, the
    necklace! Oh! you received it just as it was meantYou were as conscious
    as heart could desireI remember it perfectly
    “Do you mean, then, that your brother knew of the necklace beforehand?
    Oh! Miss Crawford, that was not fair
    “Knew of it! It was his own doing entirely, his own thoughtI am
    ashamed to say that it had never entered my head, but I was delighted
    to act on his proposal for both your sakes
    “I will not say,” replied Fanny, chanel bag classic “that I was not half afraid at the
    time of its being so, for there was something in your look that frightened
    me, but not at first; I was as unsuspicious of it at first—indeed,
    indeed I wasIt is as true as that I sit hereAnd had I had an
    idea of it, nothing should have induced me to accept the necklace
    As to your brother’s behaviour, certainly I was sensible of a particu315
    Jane Austen
    larity: I had been sensible of it some little time, perhaps two or chanel sale three
    weeks; but then I considered it as meaning nothing: I put it down as
    simply being his way, and was as far from supposing as from wishing
    him to have any serious thoughts of meI had not, Miss
    Crawford, been an inattentive observer of what was passing between
    him and some part of this family in the summer and autumnI was
    quiet, but I was not blindI could not but see that MrCrawford
    allowed himself in gallantries which did mean nothing
    “Ah! I cannot rolex watches for sale den
    10:42 am
    @@@@@ "Aaah, get the hell out, you're a bunch
    @@@@@
    "Aaah, get the hell out, you're a bunch of goddam women," Croft drawled
    And this seemed funniest of allThey held weakly onto the stanchions of their bunks"Do I have to leave now, Sergeant? There's a lot of water," Polack bawledIt rushed through them in a succession of confused waves like water ripples spreading out from a stone only to be balked by other wavelets formed by another stoneEvery time someone opened his mouth they roared again, wild hysterical laughter, close to tearsThe boat shook from it
    It died down slowly, erupted again several times like fire licking out from under a blanket, and finally wore itself outThere was nothing left but their spent bodies and the mild pleasure they found in releasing the tension upon their cheek muscles, soothing the ache of laughter in their chests, wiping their freshened eyesAnd it was replaced by the flat extensive depression which overlay everything
    Polack tried to revive it again by singing but only a few of them joined him

    "Roll me over
    In the clover
    Roll me over,
    Lay me down
    And do it again

    Ha' past three
    I had her on my knee
    Lay me down,
    Roll me over,
    Do it again
    Roll me over in the clover

    Their voices piped out feebly, lost in the flat placid washes of the blue seaTheir boat chugged along, the motors almost smothering the sound

    "Ha' past four
    I had her on the floor
    Lay me down,
    Roll me over,
    Do it again

    Croft got out of his bunk and peered over the side, staring moodily at the waterHe had not been told the date on which the campaign had been won, and he made the error of assuming it was the day they had failed on the mountainIf they had been able to climb it, the campaign would have depended upon themHe did not even question thisIt was a bitter certainty in his
    Friday, December 31st, 2010
    12:35 pm
    @@@@@Yet both appeared to be; the connections
    @@@@@Yet both appeared to be; the connections existedWas Carlos himself part of
    Swayne’s Medusa? Everything they knew about the Jackal would deny it emphaticallyThe
    assassin’s strength was in his total disassociation with any structured entity, Jason Bourne had
    proved that thirteen years ago in ParisNo group of people could ever reach him; they could only
    send out a message and he would reach themThe single organization the international killer for
    hire permitted was his army of old men, from the Mediterranean to the Baltic, lost misfits,
    criminals whose impoverished last days were made better by the assassin’s largess, fealty unto
    death demanded and receivedWhere did—could—a man like Randolph Gates fit in?
    He didn’t, concluded Alex as the outer limits of his imagination explored an old territory—Be
    skeptical of the apparentThe celebrated attorney was no more part of Carlos than he was of
    MedusaHe was the aberration, the flaw in the lens, an otherwise honorable man with a single
    weakness that had been uncovered by two disparate parties both with extraordinary resourcesIt
    was common knowledge that the Jackal could reach into the S?reté and Interpol, and it took no
    clairvoyance to assume that Medusa could penetrate the army’s G-2It was the only possible
    explanation, for Gates had been too controversial, too powerful for too long to function as
    spectacularly as he did in the courts if his vulnerability was easily uncoveredNo, it would take
    predators like the Jackal and the men of Medusa to bore deep enough to dredge up a secret so
    devastating as to turn Randolph Gates into a valuable pawnClearly, Carlos had gotten to him first
    Conklin reflected on a truth that was forever reconfirmed: the world of global corrupters was in
    reality a small multilayered neighborhood, geometric in design, the irregular avenues of corruption
    leading into one anotherHow could it be otherwise? The residents of those lethal streets had
    services to offer, their clients were a specific breed—the desperate dregs of humanityExtort,
    compromise, killThe Jackal and the men of Medusa belonged to the same fraternal orderThe
    Brotherhood of I Must Have MineBut it was a breakthrough Jason Bourne could handle—not David Webb—and
    Webb was still too much a part of BourneEspecially since both parts of the same man were over a
    thousand miles away from Montserrat, the coordinates of death determined by CarlosJacques! The “little brother” who had proved himself in a backwater town in the
    northern regions of Canada, proved himself beyond the knowledge and the understanding of his
    family, especially his beloved sisterA man who could kill in anger—who had killed in fury—and
    who would kill again if the sister he adored and her children were under the Jackal’s gunDavid
    believed in him—Jason Bourne believed in him, which was far more to the point
    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
    119
    Alex looked over at the telephone console, then quickly got out of the chairHe rushed to the
    desk, sat down, and touched the buttons that rewound the current tape, adjusting it to the spot where
    he wanted to pick it upHe went forward and back until he heard Gates’s panicked v
    10:43 am
    @@@@@Rhett's mouth twitched"I'm remarkably well
    @@@@@Rhett's mouth
    twitched"I'm remarkably well for a dead man," he drawled, "or was I
    mistaken? I thought I glimpsed a widow at the dock in CharlestonI had to say somethingI wasn't married, I mean I didn't
    have a husband-"
    "Don't try to explain, Scarlett
    It's not your forte
    "Forty? What are you talking about?" Was he being mean? Please
    don't
    be mean, RhettWhat brings you to Ireland? I
    thought you were in England
    "What made you think that?" Why are we standing here making
    conversation about nothing at all? Why can't I think? Why am I
    saying
    these stupid things? "You didn't get off the ship in Boston
    Scarlett's heart leapt to the meaning of what he'd saidHe'd taken
    the trouble to find out where she was going, he cared about her, he
    wanted to keep her from disappearingHappiness flooded her heart
    "May I assume from your cheerful attire that you're no longer
    mourning
    my death?" said Rhett"Shame on you, Scarlett, I'm not yet cold in
    my grave) She looked down in horror at her peasant clothes, then up
    at his impeccably tailored hacking jacket and perfectly tied white
    stock
    Why did he always have to make her feel like a fool? Why couldn't she
    at least feel angry? Because she loved himWhether he believed it or
    didn't, it was the truthWithout planning or thought of consequences,
    Scarlett looked at the man who had been her husband for so many
    years
    of lies"I love you, Rhett," she said with simple dignity"How
    unfortunate for you, ScarlettYou always seem to be in love with
    another woman's husband He lifted his cap politely"I have another
    commitment, please excuse me if I leave you now He
    turned
    his back on her and walked awayScarlett looked after himShe felt
    as if he had slapped her
    Thursday, December 30th, 2010
    12:27 pm
    @@@@@Not exactly the most passionate proposal in
    @@@@@Not exactly the most
    passionate proposal in the world, but I'm sure harriet can do it up
    with lace and rosebuds in her mindToo bad the wedding's in
    February
    I'd have been tempted to go, but not tempted enough to miss the
    Castle
    SeasonIt hardly seems possible that I once thought Atlanta was a
    big
    cityI'll see if Cat would like to go to Dublin with me after New
    Year'sSims said the fittings would only take a few hours in
    the morningsI wonder what they do with those poor zoo animals in
    the
    winter? "Nave you another cup in that pot, Mistress O 'hara? It was
    chilly ride over here Scarlett stared up at the Earl of Fenton, her
    mouth gaping - surpriseOh, Lord, I must look a sight, I hardly even
    brushed hair this morning"I told my butler to say I'm not at home,"
    blurted"But I came the back wayMay I sit down?"
    "I'm amazed you wait to be asked
    I've only got one cup, seeing I wasn't at home to visitorsFenton
    tugged the bell pull, took a chair close to hers"I'll your cup if you
    don't mindIt will take a week for another to _ hereSo there!" Scarlett blurtedThen she burst laughing
    "I haven't said 'so there' in twenty yearsI'm surpr I didn't stick
    out my tongue, tooYou're a very irritating Milord
    "May I have some coffee?"
    "The pot's empty Fenton looked a little less
    overbearing when he laughed as did thenScarlett visited her cousin
    Molly that afternoon, throwing that socially ambitious creature into
    such a frenzy of gentility that Scarlett's oflhand questions about the
    Earl of Fenton were barely noticedThe visit was very short
    10:35 am
    @@@@@ Jared spit on the floorShe's never coming
    @@@@@
    Jared spit on the floorShe's never coming back, Jamie
    “That's her face,” Jamie insistedDon't the bruises therebother you?”
    Jared dropped his handsHe closed his eyes and took a deep breath“You will either leave right
    now, Jamie, and give me some space, or I willmake you leaveI can't deal
    with any more right now, okay? I'm at my limitSo can we please have this conversation later?”
    He opened his eyes again; they were full of pain
    Jamie looked at him, and the anger drained slowly from his face“Sorry,” he muttered after a
    moment“I'll go… but I'm not promising that I won't come back
    “I can't think about that nowHe threw one more searching look at me, and then he left, his quick, long
    stride making me ache again for the time I'd missed“You, too,” he said in a flat voice“I don't think you've had a long enough break, to be honestI'll keep an eye
    on –”
    “Go
    Jeb frowned thoughtfully He started down the hall
    “Jeb?” Jared called after him
    “Yeah?”
    “If I asked you to shoot it right now, would you do it?”
    Jeb kept walking slowly, not looking at us, but his words were clearI follow my
    own rulesSo don't ask me unless you really mean it
    He disappeared into the dark
    Jared watched him goBefore he could turn his glower on me, I ducked into my uncomfortable
    sanctuary and curled up in the back cor
    Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
    12:27 pm
    @@@@@ I took another short stepJared turned his
    @@@@@ I took another short stepJared turned his hand palm up
    and curled his fingers twice, encouraging me forward
    I walked slowly, each step an individual movement followed by a pause, not part of a steady
    advanceI stopped a yard away from himIan shadowed each step, keeping close to my side
    “I'd like to talk to it alone, if you don't mind,” Jared said to him
    “No, Ian, it's okay I nudged his arm lightly
    Ian scrutinized my face, his expression dubious“This isn't some death wish? Sparing the kid?”
    he demandedJared wouldn't lie to Jamie about this
    Jared scowled when I said his name, the sound of it full of confidence
    “Please, Ian,” I pleaded“I want to talk to him
    Ian looked at me for a long minute, then turned to scowl at JaredHe barked out each sentence
    like an order
    “Her name isWanda, notitYou will not touch herAny mark you leave on her, I will double on
    your worthless hide
    I winced at the threat
    Ian turned abruptly and stalked into the darkness
    It was silent for a moment as we both watched the empty space where he had disappearedI
    looked at Jared's face first, while he still stared after IanWhen he turned to meet my gaze, I
    dropped my eyesHe's not kidding, is he?” Jared s
    10:35 am
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    "There's a custom silversmith in Sarasota,"
    Wireman said"Mexicano muy talentosoMiss
    Eastlake has - had - a few pieces of his stuffI
    1088
    bet I could commission him to make a watertight
    tube big enough to hold the flashlightThat'd
    give us what insurance companies and football
    coaches call chanel white bag double coverageIt'd be pricey, but
    so what? Barring probate snags, I'm going to be an
    extremely wealthy manCaught a break there,
    muchacho
    "La lotería," I said, without thinking
    Help me tip Emery into the cisternI really don't want
    to touch it
    "I'll help with Emery," I said"You hold onto the
    flashlightWireman? Let's do fake louis vuitton bags this
    The two of us rolled Emery into the hole, then
    threw in the pieces of him that broke off - or as
    many as we could findI still remember his stony
    coral grin as he tumbled into the dark to join his
    brideAnd sometimes, of course, I dream about it
    In these dreams I hear Adie and Em calling up to
    me from the dark, asking me women rolex if I wouldn't like to
    come down and join themAnd sometimes in those
    dreams I doSometimes I throw myself into that
    1089
    dark and stinking throat just to make an end to my
    memories
    These are the dreams from which I wake up
    screaming, thrashing at the dark with a hand that
    is no longer there
    xiv
    Wireman and Jack slid the omega moon watch cap into position again,
    and then we went back to Elizabeth's Mercedes
    That was a slow, painful walk, and by the end of
    it I really wasn't walking at all; I was lurching
    It was as if the clock had been rolled back to the
    previous OctoberI was already thinking of the
    few Oxycontin tablets I had waiting for me back at
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    Monday, December 27th, 2010
    12:28 pm
    @@@@@ "Put that goddam thing out," Croft said
    @@@@@
    "Put that goddam thing out," Croft said again, and after a pause, the soldier snuffed itCroft was feeling irritable and nervousHe had no fear but he was impatient and overalert
    Red debated whether to light a cigaretteHe and Croft had hardly spoken to each other since their quarrel on the beach, and he was tempted to defy himActually he knew he wouldn't, and he tried to decide whether the real reason was that it was a bad idea to show a light or because he was afraid of CroftFug it, I'll stand up to that sonofabitch when the time comes, Red told himself, but I'll damn sure be right when I do
    They had begun to move once moreAfter a few minutes they heard a few low voices on the road, and their truck turned off and wallowed through a muddy laneIt was very narrow and a branch from a tree swept along the top of the truck"Watch it!" someone shouted, and they all flattened themselvesRed pulled some leaves out of his shirt and pricked his finger on a thornHe wiped the blood on the back of his pants and began searching for his pack, which he had thrown off when he first got into the truckHis legs were stiff and he tried to flex them
    "Don't dismount till you're told," Croft said
    The trucks came to a halt, and they listened to the few men circling around them in the darknessEverything was terribly quietThey sat there, speaking in whispersAn officer rapped on the tail gate and said, "All right, men, dismount and stick together They began to jump out of the truck, moving slowly and uncertainlyIt was a five-foot drop into darkness and they didn't know what the ground was like beneath them"Drop the tail gate," someone said, and the officer snapped, "All right, men, let's keep it quiet
    When they had all got out, they stood about waitingThe trucks were already backing away for another trip"Are there any officers here?" the officer asked
    10:35 am
    @@@@@You ought to be satisfied with her two
    @@@@@You ought to be satisfied with
    her two cousins
    “But I cannot be satisfied without Fanny Price, without making a
    small hole in Fanny Price’s heartYou do not seem properly aware of
    her claims to noticeWhen we talked of her last night, you none of
    you seemed sensible of the wonderful improvement that has taken
    place in her looks within the last six weeksYou see her every day,
    and therefore do not notice it; but I assure you she is quite a different
    creature from what she was in the autumnShe was then merely
    a quiet, modest, not plain-looking girl, but she is now absolutely
    prettyI used to think she had neither complexion nor countenance;
    but in that soft skin of hers, so frequently tinged with a blush as it
    was yesterday, there is decided beauty; and from what I observed of
    her eyes and mouth, I do not despair of their being capable of ex199
    Jane Austen
    pression enough when she has anything to expressAnd then, her
    air, her manner, her tout ensemble, is so indescribably improved! She
    must be grown two inches, at least, since October
    “Phoo! phoo! This is only because there were no tall women to
    compare her with, and because she has got a new gown, and you
    never saw her so well dressed beforeShe is just what she was in
    October, believe meThe truth is, that she was the only girl in company
    for you to notice, and you must have a somebodyI have always
    thought her pretty—not strikingly pretty—but ‘pretty enough,’
    as people say; a sort of beauty that grows on oneHer eyes should be
    darker, but she has a sweet smile; but as for this wonderful degree of
    improvement, I am sure it may all be resolved into a better style of
    dress, and your having nobody else to look at; and therefore, if you
    do set about a flirtation with her, you never will persuade me that it
    is in compliment to her beauty, or that it proceeds from anything
    but your own idleness and folly
    Her brother gave only a smile to this accusation, and soon afterwards
    said, “I do not quite know what to make of Miss FannyI do
    not understand herI could not tell what she would be at yesterday
    What is her character? Is she solemn? Is she queer? Is she prudish?
    Why did she draw back and look so grave at me? I could hardly get
    her to speakI never was so long in company with a girl in my life,
    trying to entertain her, and succeed so ill! Never met with a girl who
    looked so grave on me! I must try to get the better of thisHer looks
    say, ‘I will not like you, I am determined not to like you’; and I say
    she shall
    “Foolish fellow! And so this is her attraction after all! This it is,
    her not caring about you, which gives her such a soft skin, and
    makes her so much taller, and produces all these charms and graces!
    I do desire that you will not be making her really unhappy; a little
    love, perhaps, may animate and do her good, but I will not have
    you plunge her deep, for she is as good a little creature as ever lived,
    and has a great deal of feeling
    “It can be but for a fortnight,” said Henry; “and if a fortnight can
    kill her, she must have a constitution which nothing could save
    No, I will not do her any harm, dear little soul! only want her to
    look kindly on me, to give me smiles as well as blushes, to keep a
    200
    Mansfield Park
    chair for me by herself wherever we are, and be all animation when
    I take it and talk to her; to think as I think, be interested in all my
    possessions and pleasures, try to keep me longer at Mansfield, and
    feel when I go away that she shall be never happy again
    “Moderation itself!” said Mary“I can have no scruples nowWell,
    you will have opportunities enough of endeavouring to recommend
    yourself, for we are a great deal toge
    Sunday, December 26th, 2010
    12:38 pm
    @@@@@Do you think they really did-" The
    @@@@@Do you think they really did-" The people
    nearby hushed them, but they were thinking the same thing
    The awful hollow thud of earth on wood made Scarlett clench her
    fists
    She wanted to clap her hands over her ears, to scream, to
    shoutanything
    to shut out the terrible sound of the grave closing over elanieHer
    teeth closed painfully on her lipShe wouldn't scream, she
    wouldn't
    The cry that shattered the solemnity was Ashley's
    Mell-eee!" And again, "Mell-eee It was the cry of a soul in
    torment, filled with loneliness and fearHe stumbled towards the deep
    muddy pit like a man newly struck blind, his hands searching for the
    small, quiet creature who was all his strengthBut there was nothing
    to hold, only the streaming silver streaks of cold rainScarlett
    looked at DrMeade, India, Henry HamiltonWhy don't they do
    something? Why don't they stop him?
    He's got to be stopped! "Mell-eee For the love of God! He's
    going to break his neck, and they're all just standing there watching,
    gawping at him teetering on the edge of the grave
    "Ashley, stop!" she shouted"Ashley!" She began to run, slipping
    and sliding on the wet grassThe umbrella she had thrown aside
    scudded across the ground, pushed by the wind until it was trapped in
    the mounds of flowersShe grabbed Ashley around the waist, tried to
    pull him away from the danger"Ashley, don't!"
    Scarlett struggled against his strength"Melly can't help you now
    Her voice was harsh, to cut through Ashley's unhearing, demented
    grief
    He halted, and his arms dropped to hissidesHe moaned softly, and
    then
    his whole body crumpled in Scarlett's supporting armsJust when her
    grasp was breaking from the weight of him, DrMeade and India
    caught
    Ashley's limp arms to lift him e
    10:43 am
    @@@@@I’ve been away too longI’m afraid,
    @@@@@I’ve been away
    too longI’m afraid, Jason—sorry
    “You’re right the first timeHave you discussed—”
    “Nothing by name,” broke in the retired intelligence officer quickly, firmly
    “You couldn’t,” contradicted Alex With these cryptic words
    Conklin abruptly hung up
    Slowly Bourne did the same, frowning in concernAlex was the one now sounding
    melodramatic, and it was not like him to think that way or act that wayControl was his byword,
    understatement his personaWhatever he had learned profoundly disturbed him so much so as to
    make it seem to Bourne that he no longer trusted the procedures he himself had set up, or even the
    people he was working withOtherwise he would have been clearer, more forthcoming; instead, for
    reasons Jason could not fathom, Alexander Conklin did not want to talk about Medusa or whatever
    he had learned in peeling away twenty years of deceitWas it possible?
    No time! No use, not now, considered Bourne, looking around the huge department storeAlex
    was not only as good as his word, he lived by it, as long as one was not an enemyRuefully,
    suppressing a short throated laugh, Jason remembered Paris thirteen years agoHe knew that side
    of Alex, tooBut for the cover of gravestones in a cemetery on the outskirts of Rambouillet, his
    closest friend would have killed himThat was then, not nowConklin said he’d “be in touch He
    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
    46
    wouldUntil then the Chameleon had to build several coversFrom the inside to the outside, from
    underwear to outerwear and everything in betweenNo chance of a laundry or a cleaning mark
    coming to light, no microscopic chemical evidence of a regionally distributed detergent or fluid—
    nothingHe had given too muchIf he had to kill for David’s family
    Saturday, December 25th, 2010
    12:36 pm
    @@@@@I’ve been here beforeIt ain’t fatal, boy, I
    @@@@@I’ve been here beforeIt ain’t fatal, boy, I gotta slug in the upper chest
    “I’ll get a doctor right away—our friend Ivan, incidentally—but if you can, tell me what
    happened while I move you to the floor and look at the damage Jason slowly, carefully lowered
    the old man off the chair and onto the throw rug beneath the bay windowHe tore off Cactus’s
    shirt; the bullet had gone through the flesh of the left shoulderWith short, swift movements
    Bourne ripped the shirt into strips and tightly wrapped a primitive bandage around his friend’s
    chest and between the underarm and the shoulder“It’s not much,” said Jason, “but it’ll hold you
    for a while
    “He’s out there, Br’er!” Cactus coughed weakly, lying back on the floor“He’s got a big mother
    ’fifty-seven magnum with a silencer; he pinned me through the window, then smashed it and
    climbed inside
    “Easy! Don’t talk, never mind—”
    “I gottaThe brothers out there, they ain’t got no hardwareI played deep
    dead and he was in a hurry—oh, was he in a hurry! Look over there, will ya?” Jason swung his
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    head in the direction of Cactus’s gestureA dozen or so books had been yanked out of a shelf on
    the side wall and strewn on the floorThe old man continued, his voice growing weaker“He went
    over to the bookcase like in a panic, until he found what he wanted then to the door, that ’fiftyseven
    ready for bear, if you follow meI figured it was you he was after, that he’d seen you
    through the window go out to the other room, and I tell ya, I was workin’ my right knee like a
    runnin’ muskrat ’cause I found that alarm button an hour ago and knew I had to stop him—”
    “Easy!”
    “I gotta tell you I couldn’t move my hands ’cause he’d see me, but my knee hit that sucker
    and the siren damn near blew me out of the chairThe honky bastard fell apartHe slammed the
    door, locked it, and beat his way out of here back through the window Cactus’s neck arched back,
    the pain and the exhaustion overtaking him“He’s out there, Br’er Rabbit—”
    “That’s enough!” ordered Bourne as he cautiously reached up, snapping off the desk lamp,
    leaving the dim light from the hallway through the shattered door as the only illumination“I’m
    calling Alex; he can send the doctor—”
    Suddenly, from somewhere outside, there was a high-pitched scream, a roar of shock and
    anguish Jason knew only too wellSo did Cactus, who whispered, his eyes shut tight: “He got one
    That fucker got one of the brothers!”
    “I’m reaching Conklin,” said Jason, pulling the phone off of the des
    10:43 am
    @@@@@She'd never seen lace so thick and
    @@@@@She'd
    never seen lace so thick and elaborateThe older woman took off her
    gray kid gloves and gray feathered hat before she sat in the
    plush-covered chair next to the tea table"Thank you for receiving
    me, MrsI doubt that you want to waste time talking about
    the weather; you'd prefer to know why I'm here, is that correct?" Mrs
    Montague had an interesting wryness in her voice and her smile
    "I've been dying of curiosity," said ScarlettShe liked this
    beginning"I have learned that you're a successful businesswoman,
    both here and in America What I know, I keep to
    myself; it's one of my most valuable assetsAnother, as you can
    imagine, is that I have means of learning things that others do not
    I'm a businesswoman, tooI would like to tell you about my business,
    if I may Scarlett could only nod dumblyWhat did this woman know
    about her? And how? To put it at its most basic level, she arranged
    things, said MrsShe was born the youngest daughter of a
    younger son of a good family, and she had married a younger son of
    anotherEven before he died in a hunting accident she had grown
    tired
    of being always on the edge of things, always trying to keep up
    appearances and lead the life expected of well-bred ladies and
    gentlemen, always in need of moneyAfter she was widowed she
    found
    herself in the position of poor relation, a position that was
    intolerableWhat she had was intelligence, education, taste, and
    entree to all the best houses in IrelandShe built on them, adding
    discretion and information to the attributes she began with"I am-in
    a manner of speaking-a professional house guest and friendI give
    generously of advice-in clothing, in entertaining, in decorating
    houses, in arranging marriages or assignationsAnd I am paid
    generous
    commissions by dressmakers and tailors, bootmakers and jewelers,
    furniture dealers and rug merchantsI am skillful and tactful, and it
    is doubtful that anyone suspects that I am being paidEven if they do
    suspect, either they don't want to know or they are so satisfied with
    the outcome that they don't care, particularly since it costs them
    nothing Scarlett was shocked and fascin
    Friday, December 24th, 2010
    12:27 pm
    @@@@@this room? But it was always
    @@@@@this room? But it was always FentonEverywhere
    she looked, in the of everyone around her, in the columns of every
    newspaper she - She could at least be thankful that he paid no special
    attention her; then the gossips would have pursued her as wellBut
    she wished to heaven that his name was not on every tongue every
    day
    Rumors gradually coalesced into two theories: he had - 1- his
    neglected
    house for a surreptitious, unofficial visit from the of Wales; or he
    had fallen under the spell of Lady Sophia I who had been the talk of
    London's Season in May and was repe her success now in DublinIt
    was
    the oldest story in the worldman sows his wild oats and resists the
    snares of women for and years until bang!-when he's forty, he loses
    his head and heart to beauty and innocenceLady Sophia Dudley was
    seventeenShe had hair the gold ripe hay and eyes as blue as the
    summer sky and a pink-and-ú complexion that put porcelain to
    shame
    At least so said the that were written about her and sold on all the
    street corners f( pennyShe was, in fact, a beautiful, shy girl who
    was very much I-her ambitious mother's control and who blushed
    often and lively because of all the attention and gallantries paid
    her
    saw quite a bit of her
    Sophia's private drawing room was next Scarlett'sIt was second best
    in terms of furnishings and the Saint Stephen's Green, but first in
    terms of people vying for sionNot that Scarlett's was by any means
    unattended; a rich well-received widow with fascinating green eyes
    would always demandWhy should I be surprised, thought Scarlett
    I'm
    twice her and I had my turn last yearBut sometimes she had trouble
    holding her tongue when Sophia's name was linked with Luke'sIt
    was
    common knowledge that a duke had asked for Sophia's hand, but
    everyone
    agreed that she'd do better to take FentonA duke had precedence
    over
    an earl, but Fenton was forty times richer and a hundred times
    handsomer than the Duke"And he's mine if I want him," Scarlett
    longed to sayWho'd they be writing ballads about then? She scolded
    herself for her pettinessShe told herself she was a fool for
    thinking of Fenton's prediction that she would be forgotten after a
    year or twoAnd she tried not to worry about the little lines in the
    skin beside her eyesScarlett returned to Ballyhara for her First
    Sunday office hours, thankful to get away from Dublin
    10:35 am
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    try to get some restI'll bet even that skinny mattress would feel pretty good to you right now
    I looked from his face to the mat on the floor and back“You look like you could use a good sleepI'll keep watch over you
    Touched, new moisture in my eyes, I sank messenger bag prada down on the mat and laid my head on the pillowIt
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    reaching out with my fingersI heard my joints poppingThen I let myself wilt into the mattress
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    “Does me good to see that,” Jeb muttered“It's like an itch you can't scratch, knowing someone
    is suffering under your own roof
    He eased himself to the floor a few yards away and started humming quietlyI was asleep
    before he'd finished the first bar
    When I woke up, I knew black chanel tote that I'd been solidly asleep for a long time–a longer stretch than I'd
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