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    Monday, January 3rd, 2011
    12:50 pm
    @@@@@ The south tunnel was blackI could not see
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    The south tunnel was blackI could not see his faceHis footsteps did not falter beside me, and
    he didn't say anything for several minutesWhen he spoke again, I could hear that he was
    focusing on the raid–single-minded, setting aside whatever curiosity he felt until after the
    mission was planned to his satisfaction
    “Where do we get them?”
    “Empty cryotanks are stored outside Healing facilities until they're neededWith more souls
    coming in than leaving, there will be a surplusNo one will guard them; no one will notice if
    some go missing
    “Are you sure? Where did you get this information?”
    “I saw them in Chicago, piles and piles of themEven the little facility we went to in Tucson
    had a small store of them, crated outside the delivery bay
    “If they were crated, then how can you be sure –”
    “Haven't you noticed our fondness for labels?”
    “I'm not doubting you,” he said“I just want to make sure that you've thought this through
    I heard the double meaning in his words
    “Let's get it done, then
    Doc was already gone–already with Jeb, as we hadn't passed him on the wayHe must have left
    right behind meI wondered how his news was being takenI hoped they weren't stupid enough
    to discuss it in front of the SeekerWould she shred her human host's brain if she guessed what I
    was doing? Would she assume I'd turned traitor entirely? That I would give the humans what
    they needed with no restrictions?
    Wasn't that what I was about to do, though? When I was gone, would Doc bother to keep his
    word?
    Yes, hewould tryI had to believe thatBut he couldn't do it aloneAnd who
    would help him?
    We scrambled up the tight black vent that opened onto the southern face of the rocky hill,
    about halfway up the low peakThe eastern edge of the horizon was turning gray, with just a
    hint of pink bleeding into the line between sky and rock
    My eyes were locked on my feet as I climbed downIt was necessary; there was no path, and
    the loose rocks made for treacherous footingBut even if the way had been paved and smooth, I
    doubted I would have been able to lift my e
    8:06 am
    @@@@@They all stopped what they were doing and
    @@@@@They all stopped what they were doing and scowled, naturally
    “Pay 'em no mind,” Jeb murmured to me
    Jeb proceeded to follow his own advice; he went to a jumbled pile of tools against the closest
    wall, shoved his gun through the strap at his waist, and grabbed a pick and two shovels
    I felt exposed, having him so far awayIan was just a step behind me–I could hear him
    breathingThe others in the room continued to glower, their tools still in their handsI didn't
    miss the fact that the picks and hoes that were breaking the earth could easily be used to break a
    bodyIt seemed to me, in reading a few of their expressions, that I wasn't the only one with that
    idea
    Jeb came back and handed me a shovelI gripped the smooth, worn wooden handle, feeling its
    weightAfter seeing the bloodlust in the humans' eyes, it was hard not to think of it as a
    weaponI didn't like the ideaI doubted I could raise it as one, even to block a blow
    Jeb gave Ian the pickThe sharp, blackened metal looked deadly in his handsIt took all my
    willpower not to skip out of range
    “Let's take the back corner
    At least Jeb took me to the least crowded spot in the long, sunny caveHe had Ian pulverize the
    hard-baked dirt ahead of us, while I flipped the clods over and he followed behind, crushing the
    chunks into usable soil with the edge of his shovel
    Watching the sweat run down Ian's fair skin–he'd removed his shirt after a few seconds in the
    dry scorch of the mirror light–and hearing Jeb's grunted breaths behind me, I could see that I had
    the easiest jobI wished I had something more difficult to do, something that would keep me
    from being distracted by the movements of the other humansTheir every motion had me
    cringing and flinching
    I couldn't do Ian's job–I didn't have the thick arm and back muscles needed to really chew into
    the hard soilBut I decided to do what I could of Jeb's, prechopping the clods into smaller bits
    before I moved onIt helped a little bit–kept my eyes busy and tired me out so that I had to
    concentrate on making myself w
    Sunday, January 2nd, 2011
    12:50 pm
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    Yet the Major never thought of asking for a transfer; nothing could have been more repugnant to himHe had always possessed an intense loyalty to his commander if he cartier pasha watch felt the man was a good officer, and no one had ever impressed him more than the GeneralIt was inconceivable to Major Dalleson that he should desert the General unless he was ordered to; he would, if the bivouac had been overrun by Japanese troops, probably have died defending the General in his tentIt was the only romantic attitude in his heavy mind and bodyAnd besides this, the Major had his ambition to sustain himIt was, of course, a very backward ambition; the Major had no more hope of becoming a general than a rich merchant in the Middle Ages might have dreamed of becoming kingThe Major wanted to make lieutenant-colonel, or even conceivably colonel before the war ended, and in his position as G-3 he was entitled to thatHis reasoning was hermes bag simple; he had every intention of remaining in the Army after the war and he judged that if he rose as high as lieutenant-colonel the chances were very good that in the postwar Army he would be demoted no lower than captainOut of all the ranks it was the one he preferred the most next to top sergeant, and he felt a little wistfully that it would not be very correct for him to become an enlisted man againSo, unhappily, he continued to wrestle with his job as the chief of operations
    Now as he completed the timetables he turned with reluctance to the march orders that would be necessary to remove a battalion from the line and divert them to the beachIn itself it was not too complicated a process, but since he didn't know which battalion would be hermes purse removed, he had to draw up four sets of withdrawal orders and work out the subsidiary movements of the troops who would have to fill the gap in each caseIt kept him busy through most of the afternoon, for, although he assigned part of it to Leach and his other assistant, it was necessary to check their work, and the Major was very thorough, very slow
    He finished that at last, and sketched a tentative march order for the invasion battalion once it had landed at BotoiHere there was no precedent for him to follow -- the General had sketched the outline of the attack, but he had been a little vagueFrom experience, Dalleson knew he would have to submit something and the General would proceed to rip it apart and give him the movement in detailHe hoped replica omega to avoid this but he knew there was little likelihood of it, and so, sweating profusely in the heat of the tent, he indicated a route of combat march along one of the main trails, and estimated the time it should take for each portion of itThis was unplotted terrain of his mind as well, and he halted many times, wiped his forehead, and tried unsuccessfully to conceal his anxiety from himselfThe steady murmur of voices in the tent, the steady bustle of men moving from desk to desk, or the draftsmen humming over their work, irritated himOnce or twice he looked up, glared balefully at whoever was talking, and then returned to his work with an audible grunt
    The telephone rang frequently and despite himself Dalleson began to listen to the men omega watch conversati
    8:06 am
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    Polack was perhaps twenty-one but his eyes were shrewd and bawdy, and when he laughed his skin was wizened, tough, like new louis vuitton the skin of a middle-aged manMinetta felt a little uncomfortable with himSecretly he was afraid to match his knowledge against Polack's
    "Stop throwing it," Minetta saidWho did Polack think he was telling the story to?
    "No, it's the truth," Polack said in a hurt voiceHe always dropped the "h" when he said zucca fendi bag "think" or "the" or "truth
    "Yeah, it's da troot," Minetta said, mimicking him
    "You havin' a good time?" Polack asked
    "I can't complain," Minetta said"You talk like something out of a comic book"Anyway, one thing nobody ever beat was the Army
    "I ain't done so bad," Polack said
    "You're doing bad till prada messenger the day you get out of it," Minetta told himHe clapped his hand against his forehead, and sat up"The goddam mosquitoes," he saidHe rummaged underneath his pillow, a towel wrapped about a soiled shirt, and drew out a small bottle of mosquito lotionAs he rubbed it over his face and hands he grumbled"What a way black quilted bag for a guy to live He propped himself on an elbow and lit a cigaretteHe remembered he was not supposed to smoke at night, and for a moment debated with himself"Aaah, fug it," he said aloudUnconsciously his hand shielded the cigarette, howeverHe turned toward Polack and said, "Boy, I don't like to live like a rolex watches women
    Saturday, January 1st, 2011
    12:58 pm
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    her
    "We can't take too much creditThey can't risk all these unprotected
    houses on Emancipation Day She went on to answer Scarlett's
    questioning expression"New Year's Day isn't what it used to be, a
    quiet time to nurse headaches from too much New Year's cartier watches women Eve
    Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on a January first, so
    now
    it's the major day of celebration for all the former slavesThey take
    over the park down at the end of the Battery and shoot off firecrackers
    and pistols all day and all night while they get drunker and drunker
    We lock up, of messenger bag prada course, including all the shutters, just the way we do
    for a hurricane
    But it helps to have an armed man in the house, too
    "There aren't any guns in the house
    "There will be," said RhettThey're coming from the
    Landing just for the occasion
    "And when will you be going?" Eleanor asked RhettI have an rolex oyster perpetual day-date appointment with Julia Ashley on the
    thirty-firstWe need to plan our united-front strategy Rhett was
    leaving! Going to hiswretched, smelly old plantation! He wouldn't be
    here to kiss her on New Year's EveNow Scarlett was sure she was
    going to cry"I'm going to the Landing with you," said birkin hermes Rosemary"I
    haven't been there for months
    "You can't go to the Landing, Rosemary Rhett was carefully patient
    "I'm afraid Rhett's right, dear," said Mrs"He can't be with
    you all the time, he's got too much business to take care ofAnd you
    cannot be in the house or any place else with only that child you have
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    8:06 am
    @@@@@But alas, that very evening destroyed
    @@@@@But alas, that very evening destroyed it
    allThat very evening brought your most unwelcome unclePoor
    Sir Thomas, who was glad to see you? Yet, Fanny, do not imagine I
    would now speak disrespectfully of Sir Thomas, though I certainly
    did hate him for many a weekNo, I do him justice nowHe is just
    what the head of such a family should beNay, in sober sadness, I
    believe I now love you all And having said so, with a degree of
    tenderness and consciousness which Fanny had never seen in her before,
    and now thought only too becoming, she turned away for a
    moment to recover herself“I have had a little fit since I came into
    this room, as you may perceive,” said she presently, with a playful
    smile, “but it is over now; so let us sit down and be comfortable; for as
    to scolding you, Fanny, which I came fully intending to do, I have
    not the heart for it when it comes to the point And embracing her
    very affectionately, “Good, gentle Fanny! when I think of this being
    the last time of seeing you for I do not know how long, I feel it quite
    impossible to do anything but love youShe had not foreseen anything of this, and
    her feelings could seldom withstand the melancholy influence of
    the word “last She cried as if she had loved Miss Crawford more
    312
    Mansfield Park
    than she possibly could; and Miss Crawford, yet farther softened by
    the sight of such emotion, hung about her with fondness, and said,
    “I hate to leave youI shall see no one half so amiable where I am
    goingWho says we shall not be sisters? I know we shallI feel that
    we are born to be connected; and those tears convince me that you
    feel it too, dear Fanny
    Fanny roused herself, and replying only in part, said, “But you are
    only going from one set of friends to anotherYou are going to a
    very particular friendFraser has been my intimate friend for years
    But I have not the least inclination to go near herI can think only of
    the friends I am leaving: my excellent sister, yourself, and the Bertrams
    in generalYou have all so much more heart among you than one
    finds in the world at largeYou all give me a feeling of being able to
    trust and confide in you, which in common intercourse one knows
    nothing ofI wish I had settled with MrsFraser not to go to her till
    after Easter, a much better time for the visit, but now I cannot put her
    offAnd when I have done with her I must go to her sister, Lady
    Stornaway, because she was rather my most particular friend of the
    two, but I have not cared much for her these three years
    After this speech the two girls sat many minutes silent, each
    thoughtful: Fanny meditating on the different sorts of friendship in
    the world, Mary on something of less philosophic tenden
    Friday, December 31st, 2010
    12:58 pm
    @@@@@“What do you see?” asked Alex, gesturing at
    @@@@@“What do you see?” asked Alex, gesturing at a shabby, nondescript brown car
    below on the avenue Montaigne“Doesn’t do much for the neighborhood, does it?”
    Krupkin did not bother to replyInstead, he whipped the miniaturized radio from his pocket and
    pressed the transmitter button“Sergei, there’s a brown automobile roughly eighty meters down the
    street from the building’s entrance—”
    “We know, sir,” interrupted the aide“We’ve got it covered, and if you’ll notice, our backup is
    parked across the wayIt’s an old man who barely moves except to look out the window
    “Does he have a car telephone?”
    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
    338
    “No, comrade, and should he leave the automobile he’ll be followed, so there can be no outside
    calls unless you direct otherwise
    “I shall not direct otherwise The Russian looked at Conklin“The old
    man,” he said
    “Bald head and all,” affirmed Alex“He’s not a fool; he’s done this before and knows he’s being
    watchedHe can’t leave for fear of missing something, and if he had a phone there’d be others
    down in the Montaigne
    “The Jackal,” said Bourne, stepping forward, then stopping, remembering Conklin’s order to
    stay away from the window
    “Now, do you understand?” asked Alex, addressing the question to Krupkin
    “Of course,” conceded the KGB official, smiling“It’s why you wanted an ostentatious
    limousine from our embassyAfter we leave, Carlos is told that a Soviet diplomatic vehicle was
    sent to pick us up, and for what other reason would we be here but to interrogate Madame Lavier?
    Naturally, in my well-advertised presence was a tall man who might or might not be Jason Bourne,
    and another shorter individual with a disabled leg—thus confirming that it was Jason Bourne
    Our unholy alliance is therefore established and observed, and again, naturally, during our harsh
    questioning of Madame Lavier, tempers flared and references were made to the Jackal’s informer
    in Dzerzhinsky Square
    “Which only I’d known about through my dealing with Santos at Le Coeur du Soldat,” said
    Jason quietly“So Dominique has a credible observer—an old man from Carlos’s army of old
    men—to back up the information she deliversI’ve got to say it, Saint Alex, that serpentine brain
    of yours hasn’t lost its cunning
    “I hear a professor I once knewI thought he’d left us
    “Only for a while, I hop
    8:14 am
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    at Flannagan’s words
    “For openers, it’s a cemetery
    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
    106
    Alex Conklin sat back in the desk chair, the phone in his hand, stunned, frowning, unable to
    summon a rational response to Jason’s astonishing informationAll he could say was “I don’t
    believe it!”
    “Which part?”
    “I don’t knowBut I have to believe it, don’t I?”
    “You didn’t want to believe London or Brussels, either, or a commander of the Sixth Fleet or dolce sale the
    keeper of the covert keys in LangleyI’m just adding to the listThe point is, once you find out
    who they all are, we can move
    “You’ll have to start from the beginning again; my head’s shreddedThe telephone number in
    New York, the license plates—”
    “The body, Alex! Flannagan and the general’s wife! They’re on their way; that was the deal and
    you’ve got to cover it
    “Just like that? Swayne kills himself and the two people on the premises who can answer
    questions, we say Ciao to them and let them pasha cartier watch get away? That’s only slightly more lunatic than what
    you’ve told me!”
    “We don’t have time for negotiating games—and besides, he can’t answer any more questions
    They were on different levels
    “Oh, boy, that’s really clearWe may need them both later
    Conklin sighed, his indecision apparent“Are you sure? It’s very complicated
    “Do it! For Christ’s sake, Alex, I don’t give a goddamn about complications or violations or all
    the manipulations you can dream up! I want Carlos! We’re building a santos cartier net and we can pull him in—
    I can pull him in!”
    “All right, all rightThere’s a doctor in Falls Church that we’ve used before in special
    operationsI’ll get hold of him, he’ll know what to do
    “Good,” said Bourne, his mind racingI’ll give you everything Flannagan
    gave meHurry up, I’ve got a lot to do
    “You’re on tape, Delta One
    Reading from the list he had written down in Flannagan’s cabin, Jason spoke rapidly,
    enunciating clearly so that there would be no confusion on the tapeThere were the Jimmy choo handbag names of seven
    frequent and acknowledged guests at the general’s dinner parties, none guaranteed as to accuracy or
    spelling but with broad-brush descriptions; then came the license plates, all from the far more
    serious twice-monthly meetingsNext to last were the telephone numbers of Swayne’s lawyer, all
    of the estate’s guards, the dog kennels and the Pentagon extension for assigned vehicles; finally
    there was the unlisted telephone in New York, no name here, only a machine that took chanel bag price messa
    Thursday, December 30th, 2010
    12:50 pm
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    kept looking back and forth between the X-ray and
    472
    the picture I had drawn from itThen, in a voice
    almost too low to hear: "What are we talking about
    here, muchacho? What are we saying?"
    "We're not," I saidHand me the shirtcardboard
    "Is that what this black quilted bag is?"
    "Yes, and be carefulThe
    X-ray doesn't matter anymore
    He passed me the shirt-cardboard picture with a
    hand that wasn't quite steady
    "Now go over to the wall where the finished
    pictures areLook at the one on the far left
    He went over, looked, and recoiled"Holy shit!
    When cartier must 21 did you do this?"
    "Last night
    He picked it up and turned it toward the light
    streaming through the big windowHe looked at
    Tina, who was looking up at the mouthless,
    noseless Candy Brown
    "No mouth, no nose, Brown dies, case closed,"
    Wireman saidHis voice was no more cheap gucci than a whisper
    "Jesus Christ, I'd hate to be the maricón de playa
    who kicked sand in your face He set the picture
    473
    back down and stepped away from itcarefully,
    like it might explode if it were joggled"What
    got into you? What possessed you?"
    "Goddam good question," I chanel ceramic watch said"I almost didn't
    show youconsidering what we're up to
    here
    "What are we up to here?"
    "Wireman, you know
    He staggered a little bit, as if he were the one
    with the bad legAnd he had come over sweatyHis
    face shone with itHis left eye was still red,
    but maybe not as omega watches prices
    8:06 am
    @@@@@ Scarlett laughed until her sides achedIs
    @@@@@ Scarlett laughed until her sides achedIs that what 'diffident' means? If you'd only brag a
    little, Charles, you could have saved me a lot of trouble
    I've been trying to get with the Blazers for a year, but I didn't know
    anybody
    "The one you'll really like is my Aunt LetitiaShe can ride Uncle
    John into the ground and never look backCome on, I'll introduce
    you There were promising rumbles of thunder, but no rainBy
    midday
    the air was stiflingErnest Sutcliffe rang the dinner gong to get
    everyone's attentionhe and his wife had planned something different
    for the afternoon, he said nervously
    "There is the usual croquet and archery, what? Or the library and
    billiards in the house, what? Or whatever one does customarily
    What?"
    "Do get on with it Ernest," said his wifeWith many starts and stops
    and sputters Ernest got on with itThere were bathing costumes for
    anyone who wanted one and ropes strung across the river for the
    adventurous to hold on to while cooling off in the rushing water
    "hardly 'rushing,'" amended Nan Sutcliffe, "but a decent little
    currentFootmen will be there with iced champagne
    Scarlett was one of the first to acceptIt sounded like being in a
    cool tub all afternoonIt was immensely more enjoyable than a cool
    tub, even though the water was warmer than she'd hoped it would be
    Scarlett moved along the rope hand over hand towards the center and
    deeper waterSuddenly she found herself in the grip of the current
    It was colder, so much colder that gooseflesh rose on her arms, and
    very swiftIt pushed her up against the rope then knocked her feet
    out from under herShe was holding on for her lifeHer legs gyrated
    out of control and the current twisted her body in half cir
    Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
    12:50 pm
    @@@@@“I don't understand what you mean “Does she
    @@@@@“I don't understand what you mean
    “Does she ever talk to you? Are you ever aware of her thoughts?”
    “My… body's? Her thoughts? She doesn't have any
    “Is that bad?” Kyle whispered
    “I don't know enough about it to tellIt's probably not good, though
    Kyle's eyes tightened
    “How long have you been here, Sunny?”
    She frowned, thinking“How long is it, Kyle? Five years? Six? You disappeared before I came
    home
    “And how old are you?” I asked her
    That surprised me–she was such a little thing, so young lookingI couldn't believe she was six
    years older than Melanie
    “Why does that matter?” Kyle askedIt just seems like the more time someone spent as a human before they became a
    soul, the better chance they might have at… making a recoveryThe greater the percentage of
    their life they spent human, the more memories they have, the more connections, the more years
    being called by the right name… I don't know
    “Is twenty-one years enough?” he asked, his voice desperate
    “I guess we'll find out
    “It's not fair!” Sunny wailed“Why do you get to stay? Why can't I stay, if you can?”
    I had to swallow hard“Thatwouldn't be fair, would it? But I don't get to stay, SunnyMaybe we'll leave together Perhaps she'd be happier if she thought I was
    going to the Dolphins with herBy the time she knew otherwise, Sunny would have a different
    host with different emotions and no tie to this human beside meAnyway, it would be
    too late“I have to go, Sunny, just like youI have to give my body back, too
    8:06 am
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    Nothing was broken–except maybe Jared's noseI shook my head slowlyJamie and Jared
    should not be fightingI was causing them so much turmoil and unhappinessI sighed and went
    back to my assessmentThere was a vast sore spot in the center of my back, and the side of my
    face felt raw and moist where it had hit the wallIt stung Chanel Necklaces when I touched it and left warm fluid
    on my fingersThat was the worst of it, thoughThe other bruises and scrapes were mild
    As I realized that, I was unexpectedly overwhelmed by reliefJared had had his chance to kill me and he had not used itHe'd gone after Jamie
    instead, to make things right between themSo whatever damage I was kelly hermes bag doing to their
    relationship, it was probably not irreparable
    It had been a long day–the day had already been long even before Jared and the others had
    shown up, and that seemed like eons agoI closed my eyes where I was and fell asleep on the
    rice
    CHAPTER 28
    Unenlightened
    It was disorienting to wake in the absolute darkIn chloe bag the past months, I'd gotten used to having
    the sun tell me it was morningAt first I thought it must still be night, but then, feeling the sting
    of my face and the ache of my back, I remembered where I was
    Beside me, I could hear the sound of quiet, even breathing; it did not frighten me, because it
    was the most familiar of seamaster omega sounds hereI was not surprised that Jamie had crept back and slept
    beside me last night
    Maybe it was the change in my breathing that woke him; maybe it was just that our schedules
    had become synchronizedBut seconds after I was conscious, he gave a little gasp
    “Wanda?” he whispered
    He sighed in relief
    “It's really dark here,” he oyster rolex sa
    Monday, December 27th, 2010
    12:50 pm
    @@@@@He was afraid of Stanley Croft watched them
    @@@@@He was afraid of Stanley
    Croft watched them indifferentlyHe too had been bothered by Gallagher's speechHe had never forgotten the Japanese charge across the river, and occasionally he would dream of a great wave of water about to fall on him while he lay helpless beneath itHe never connected the dream to the night attack, but intuitively he felt the dream signified some weakness in himselfGallagher had disturbed him, and he thought consciously of his own death for a momentThat's a damn fool thing to kick around in your head, he said to himselfBut he could not shake it immediatelyCroft always saw order in deathWhenever a man in the platoon or company had been killed he would feel a grim and quiet satisfaction as though the death was inevitably justWhat bothered him now was the idea that the wheels might be grinding for himCroft had none of the particular blend of pessimism and fatalism that Red and Brown feltCroft did not believe that the longer he was in combat the poorer his chances becameCroft believed a man was destined to be killed or not killed, and automatically he had always considered himself exemptBut now he was not so assuredHe had a sense of foreboding for an instant
    The abortive fight over, they stood silently behind the ramp, feeling the lethargic sullen power of the ocean beneath the thin metal of the deckRed had joined them, and they stood quiet, hunched against the spray, shivering from time to timeStanley and Croft began talking again about the patrol, and Red listened with dull resentmentHis back was aching, which made him irritableThe slapping and pounding of the assault boat, the constraint of the cots and men in their tiny space, even the sound of Stanley's voice, were offensive
    "You know," Stanley was confiding to Croft, "I'm not saying I'm happy about the patrol, but still it's going to be an experience, you knowYou can't be a lower kind of noncom than I am, but still you got duties, and you need experience to carry it out right His speech had a modest tone, too modest for Red, who snorted scornfully
    "Jus' keep your eyes open," Croft sai
    8:06 am
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    "Yes," the General saidHe was busy estimating the possibilitiesThey would have to be reinforcedFirst Battalion of the 459th, Infantry which he had been holding in reserve and working on the road, could be moved up in two hours, but he would have to leave at least a company and a detached platoon behind for reservesThe attack might come sooner than thatThe General debated, and decided finally to move up only two companies from 1st Battalion, save the other two for covering any retreat which might be necessary, and strip headquarters and service companies of all available platoonsHe glanced at his watchIt was eight o'clock now"Samson," he said, "at about 2300, Potential White Able and Dog will reach you by convoy march routeThey are to make contact with Paragon White and Paragon Red where they will be used according to opportunityI'll direct that as the occasion demands Everything was extremely clear to him at this momentThe Japanese would be attacking tonight, probably against the entire line, but certainly against the flanksThe storm would have delayed Toyaku's troops in reaching their assembly points, and chances were he would be unable to bring many tanks upIt could not be a probing attack, searching for weaknesses in the lineWith the mud and the sluggish maneuvering that would involve, Toyaku would have to drive at a few points, and hope he could break themThis, the General felt, he could handle"We're going to have some extremely powerful local attacks tonight," he said into the mouthpiece"I want you to contact all line units and instruct them to hold their groundThere is to be no general retreat
    "Sir?" The voice at the other end of the phone was doubtful
    "If the Japs can penetrate, let themThe companies on the flanks of any gap in the line are to hold their positionsI'll court-martial any officer who pulls back his unit for tactical reasonsAnything that gets through us will be handled by the reser
    Sunday, December 26th, 2010
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    along?"
    "No I haven'tI can't imagine why it took me so long to think of
    it
    Scarlett covered her mouth with her handHow did Rhett do it? He
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    lowered her hand and scowled at him"Well? Are you going to help
    me
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    395
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    concealed somewhere with MrCrawford, who had quitted his uncle’s
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    choiceHe called it a bad thing, done in the worst manner, and at
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    Maria as folly than vice, he could not but regard the step she had
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    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
    354
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    “I believe we startled each other Jean Pierre slipped out, rapidly closing the door behind him
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    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
    123
    to go over the procedure?” he asked, turning“For my benefit, of courseAt this age, details are
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    Friday, December 24th, 2010
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    @@@@@ I turned back to the canvas and the second
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    voicesHow could I not have heard that before?
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    the dead with rotted sails, and it had offloaded
    living corpsesThey were under this house, and
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    way, I'm coming through' and all thatShe's going to
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