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    Monday, January 3rd, 2011
    12:28 pm
    @@@@@You're just going to have to eat where
    @@@@@You're just going to have to eat where everyone else eats
    I grimaced at the floor but let him lead me to the kitchen
    It was a good thing the food was exactly the same thing as always, because if, miraculously, a
    filet mignon or a bag of Cheetos had materialized, I wouldn't have been able to taste a thingIt
    took all my concentration just to make myself swallow–I hated to make even that small sound in
    the dead silence that followed my appearanceThe kitchen wasn't crowded, just ten people
    lounging against the counters, eating their tough rolls and drinking their watery soupBut I
    killed all conversation againI wondered how long things could last like this
    The answer was exactly four days
    It also took me that long to understand what Jeb was up to, what the motivation was behind
    his switch from the courteous host to the curmudgeonly taskmaster
    The day after turning the soil I spent seeding and irrigating the same fieldIt was a different
    group of people than the day before; I imagined there was some kind of rotation of the chores
    hereMaggie was in this group, and the caramel-skinned woman, but I didn't learn her name
    Mostly everyone worked in silenceThe silence felt unnatural–a protest against my presence
    Ian worked with us, when it was clearly not his turn, and this bothered me
    I had to eat in the kitchen againJamie was there, and he kept the room from total silenceI
    knew he was too sensitive not to notice the awkward hush, but he deliberately ignored it,
    seeming to pretend that he and Jeb and I were the only people in the roomHe chattered about
    his day in Sharon's class, bragging a little about some trouble he'd gotten into for speaking out
    of turn, and complaining about the chores she'd given him as punishmentJeb chastised him
    halfheartedlyThey both did a very good job of acting normalI had no acting abilityWhen
    Jamie asked me about my day, the best I could do was stare intently at my food and mumble
    one-word answersThis seemed to make him sad, but he didn't push me
    At night it was a different story–he wouldn't let me stop talking until I begged to be allowed to
    sle
    8:15 am
    @@@@@ He heard the lie again and made the
    @@@@@
    He heard the lie again and made the connectionShe wanted him to fry
    “She can be… violent,” I agreedI smiled, to soften the insult
    It was no insult to him“Really? How?”
    “She wants me to fight backBut I… I can't do that He touched my battered face with one fingertipAnyone would do the sameI know what you must have felt
    “You wouldn't –”
    “If I were human, I wouldBesides, I wasn't thinking of that I was remembering the
    Seeker
    I smiled again, and he relaxed a little“Mel wanted me to throttle herShe really hates that
    SeekerAnd I can't… find it in myself to blame her
    “She's still searching for youLooks like she had to return the helicopter, at least
    I closed my eyes, clenched my fists, and concentrated on breathing for several seconds
    “I didn't used to be afraid of her,” I whispered“I don't know why she scares me so much now
    Where is she?”
    “Don't worryShe was just up and down the highway yesterday
    I nodded, willing myself to believe
    Sunday, January 2nd, 2011
    12:27 pm
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    He had pushed himself into this position, and the only thing to do was to carry it offAlloyed with the outraged beating of his heart was fear and a detached, almost mild concern with what would happen to himA court-martial men omega watch perhaps?
    As he spoke he felt a pride in the precision of his voice"I was thinking, Colonel, that since you do know so much about it, you must have found out peeking through keyholes
    A few startled laughs answered him and Conn's face expanded with rageThe red of his nose extended slowly out to his cheeks, his forehead, the blue veins startling now, a cluster of purple roots which held his cholerHe was obviously searching for speech like a player who has dropped a Gucci Clutches ball and runs in frantic circles trying to locate itWhen he spoke it would be terribleEven Webber had stopped eating
    "Gentlemen, please!"
    It was the General calling across the length of the tent"I won't have any more of this
    It silenced them all, cast a hush through the tent in which even the clacking of the tableware was muted, and then the reaction set in with a chorus of whispers and small exclamations, an uncomfortable self-conscious return to the food before chanel wholesale themHearn was furious with himself, disgusted by the relief he had felt when the General intervened
    Beneath the surface of his thoughts he had known, he realized now, that the General would protect him, and an old confused emotion caught him again, resentment and yet something else, something not so genuine
    Conn, Dalleson and Hobart were glaring at him, a trio of ferocious marionettesHe brought his spoon up, champed at the remote sweet pulp of the canned peach omega seamaster vintage which mingled so imperfectly with the nervous bile in his throat, the hot sour turmoil of his stomachAfter a moment he clanked the spoon down, and sat staring at the tableConn and Dalleson were talking self-consciously now like people who know they are being listened to by strangers on a bus or trainHe heard a fragment or two, something about their work for the afternoon
    At least Conn would be having indigestion too
    The General stood up quietly, and walked out of the spy bag fendi t
    8:15 am
    @@@@@There is lots of things they have there that
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    Wilson was getting restlessHe had been sitting in one place for several hours now, and his mood of contentment was beginning to lapseHis drinking sessions always followed a similar pattern: for the first few hours he would feel happy and benevolent, and the more he drank the more superior he felt to anyone who was not drinkingBut after a time he would feel a need for some external excitement and he would become bored and a trifle soberHe would fidget, become a little agitated, and then abruptly he would leave the bar or the house where he was drinking, and wander away to accept whatever adventures might occurMany times he would wake up the next day in the bed of a strange woman, or in the gutter, or on the sofa in the parlor of his small frame houseAnd rarely would he remember what had happened to him
    Now he emptied the last few drops of the third canteen and sighed noisilyHis voice had become very thick"What in the hell are we gonna do now, men?" he asked
    Croft swayed to his feet and laughed againHe had been chuckling to himself all afternoon"I'm gonna sleep," he announced
    Wilson shook his head, and leaned forward, holding Croft's leg"Sergeant -- Ah'm gonna call ya sergeant 'cause you're so goddam chicken -- sergeant, you got no call to be hittin' the sack 'cause it ain't even gonna be dark for an hour yet, maybe two
    Gallagher smiled lopsidedly"Don't ya see that fuggin Croft is blind now?"
    Croft leaned down and grasped Gallagher by the collar"I don' care drunk I am, none you men got a call to talk to me that way, none of you men He pushed Gallagher back suddenly"I'm rememberin' just what the hell you say His voice trailed off"I'm rememberin', wait till tomorrow He stopped and laughed again, and then walked a little uncertainly toward his tent
    Wilson rolled the empty canteen back and forth
    Saturday, January 1st, 2011
    12:35 pm
    @@@@@Grant, and make her amends for my being
    @@@@@Grant, and make her amends
    for my being gone
    The first, at least, of these favours Fanny would rather not have
    been asked; but it was impossible for her to refuse the correspondence;
    it was impossible for her even not to accede to it more readily
    than her own judgment authorisedThere was no resisting so much
    apparent affectionHer disposition was peculiarly calculated to value
    a fond treatment, and from having hitherto known so little of it, she
    was the more overcome by Miss Crawford’sBesides, there was gratitude
    towards her, for having made their tete-a-tete so much less painful
    than her fears had predicted
    It was over, and she had escaped without reproaches and without
    detectionHer secret was still her own; and while that was the case,
    317
    Jane Austen
    she thought she could resign herself to almost everything
    In the evening there was another partingHenry Crawford came
    and sat some time with them; and her spirits not being previously
    in the strongest state, her heart was softened for a while towards
    him, because he really seemed to feelQuite unlike his usual self, he
    scarcely said anythingHe was evidently oppressed, and Fanny must
    grieve for him, though hoping she might never see him again till he
    were the husband of some other woman
    When it came to the moment of parting, he would take her hand,
    he would not be denied it; he said nothing, however, or nothing
    that she heard, and when he had left the room, she was better pleased
    that such a token of friendship had passed
    On the morrow the Crawfords were gone
    318
    Mansfield Park
    CHAPTER XXXVII
    MRCRAWFORD GONE, Sir Thomas’s next object was that he should
    be missed; and he entertained great hope that his niece would find
    a blank in the loss of those attentions which at the time she had felt,
    or fancied, an evilShe had tasted of consequence in its most flattering
    form; and he did hope that the loss of it, the sinking again into
    nothing, would awaken very wholesome regrets in her mindHe
    watched her with this idea; but he could hardly tell with what success
    He hardly knew whether there were any difference in her spirits
    or notShe was always so gentle and retiring that her emotions
    were beyond his discriminationHe did not understand her: he felt
    that he did not; and therefore applied to Edmund to tell him how
    she stood affected on the present occasion, and whether she were
    more or less happy than she had been
    Edmund did not discern any symptoms of regret, and thought his
    father a little unreasonable in supposing the first three or four days
    could produce any
    What chiefly surprised Edmund was, that Crawford’s sister, the
    friend and companion who had been so much to her, should not be
    more visibly regrettedHe wondered that Fanny spoke so seldom of
    her, and had so little voluntarily to say of her concern at this separation
    Alas! it was this sister, this friend and companion, who was now
    the chief bane of Fanny’s comfortIf she could have believed Mary’s
    future fate as unconnected with Mansfield as she was determined
    the brother’s should be, if she could have hoped her return thither
    to be as distant as she was much inclined to think his, she would
    have been light of heart indeed; but the more she recollected and
    observed, the more deeply was she convinced that everything was
    now in a fairer train for Miss Crawford’s marrying Edmund than it
    319
    Jane Austen
    had ever been be
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    Scarlett shook off her gloominess, straightened her spineShe didn't
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    had
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    in
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    They had no temptation to go "home Their origins were better
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    dregs"
    and left the house when Scarlett gave her lavish parties
    Scarlett thought he was silly, and told him so"Rich people are ever
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    when you go to their houses But nothing at the houses of any of her
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    Friday, December 31st, 2010
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    120
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    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
    216
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    Thursday, December 30th, 2010
    12:27 pm
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    when they thundered across the bridge into town in a tieThey reined
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    8:15 am
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    "Hon, the divorce is just something that happened
    Don't go picking sides, okay?"
    "Well, I'll tell you something else that's
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    his father last year, and Max really likes Grampy,
    and blah-blah-blah - but I see the way she looks
    at him and Icare for it!" Now her
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    135
    I could see my rental car, but Jack would be
    awhile yetThe pickup traffic was stop-and-goI
    leaned my crutch against my midsection and hugged
    my daughter, who had come all the way from
    California to see me"Go easy on your mother,
    okay?"
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    and Melinda are happy
    There were circles under her eyes and I could see
    that, young or not, all the traveling had tired
    her outI thought she'd sleep late tomorrow, and
    that was fineIf my feeling about her boyfriend
    was right - I hoped it wasn't but thought it was -
    she had some sleepless nights ahead of her in the
    year to come
    Jack had made it as far as the Air Florida
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    brought out of her red leather wallet was in one
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    136
    reaction didn't show, because her fond (really
    sort of goofy) smile didn't changeAnd me? I felt
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    Jared watched the sweat bead on my forehead, the strange shiver that shook down my spine,
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    Monday, December 27th, 2010
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    Gallagher laughed quietly and mockingly"Hey, Goldstein, you want a soapbox?"
    "You don't like the Army any more than I do," Goldstein said mildly
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    "I don't like the way you express yourself," Goldstein said
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    "The only thing wrong with this Army is it never lost a war
    Toglio was shocked
    8:15 am
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    "Yeah, okay," Wyman murmured
    Like a relapsing fever, Red had again the familiar ache of age and sadness and wisdom

    Croft and Martinez had not received any mail either; they never got any
    Ridges was given a letter from his fatherIt was written laboriously on coarse ruled paper into which the pencil lines had cut deeplyRidges gave it to Goldstein to read for him
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    "That's a mighty fine letter," Ridges said when Goldstein had finished"Pa writes a nice hand
    "It's a very nice letter," Goldstein saidHe read over again the last lines of one of the letters his wife had sent him"Danny asked about you yesterday, I've been telling him all the time that daddy is in the Army, and he hasn't forgotten you one bitHe's so cute, oh, Joey, I wish you could see him growing up, there's nothing like itHe said yesterday, 'When does Daddy come back from going boom-boom?' I didn't know whether to laugh or cryManny Straus promised he'd take some pictures of him
    Goldstein sipped his beer and felt an awful longing

    Wilson had Gallagher reread one of the letters from Wilson's wife next morningHe laughed angrily several times as Gallagher read
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    Sunday, December 26th, 2010
    12:38 pm
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    @@@@@In front of them was a park, with neatly
    clipped grass and gleaming white paths that converged on and circled
    a
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    Beyond
    it was the harborShe could smell the water and the saltA breeze
    rattled the sword-shaped fronds of palm trees in the park and swayed
    the long airy clumps of Spanish moss on the scarred limbs of
    liveoaks
    Small children were running, rolling hoops, tossing balls on the grass
    under the watchful eyes of turbanned black nursemaids sitting on
    benches'LkDR R(P LEX "Scarlett, I hope you'll forgive me; I know
    I shouldn't, but I have to askButler's cheeks had splotches of bright color"What is it, Miss
    Eleanor? Are you feeling bad? Do you want me to run get you
    something? Come sit down
    "No, no, I'm perfectly wellI just can't stand not knowing Have
    you and Rhett ever thought of another child? I understand that you'd
    be
    afraid to repeat the heartbreak you felt when Bonnie died Scarlett's voice trailed offButler read her
    mind? She was counting on getting pregnant as soon as possible
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    he'd
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    when she spoke
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    world
    "Thank God," said Mrs"I do so long to be a grandmother
    againWhen Rhett brought Bonnie to visit me, I could hardly keep
    from
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    wife, you'll meet her today-poor Margaret is barrenI'm very much afraid that there'll never be anyone for
    Rosemary to marry
    Scarlett's mind worked furiously, fitting together the pieces of Rhett's
    family and what they meant to herRosemary could be a problem
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    Saturday, December 25th, 2010
    12:36 pm
    @@@@@Ripping a flare from his pocket, he put down
    @@@@@Ripping a flare from his pocket, he put down the weapon, snapped up the flame of his
    lighter, ignited the fuse and threw the sizzling candle to his rightIt landed on the road; in seconds
    it would spew out the blinding fireHe ran to his left beneath the pine trees toward the rear of the
    estate, his lighter and the second flare in one hand, the automatic in the otherHe was parallel to the
    kennels; the flare in the road exploded into bluish-white flamesHe ignited the second and threw it
    end over end, arcing it forty yards away to the front of the kennels
    The second flare burst into sputtering fire, two balls of blinding white light eerily illuminating
    the house and grounds of the estate’s south sideThree of the dogs began to wail, then made feeble
    attempts to howl; soon their confused anger would be heardAgainst the west wall of
    the white house—it moved, caught in the light between the flare by the kennels and the houseThe
    figure darted for the protection of the shrubbery; it crouched, an immobile but intrusive part of the
    silhouetted foliageWas it the killer or the killer’s target, the last “brother” recruited by Cactus?
    There was one way to find out, and if it was the former and he was a decent marksman, it was not
    the best tactic, but still it was the quickest
    Bourne leaped up from the underbrush, yelling in full view as he lunged to his right, at the last
    half second plunging his foot into the soft dirt and pivoting, lowering his body and diving to his
    left“Head for the cabin!” he roaredAnd he got his answerTwo more spits, two more cracks in
    the air, the bullets digging up the earth to his rightThe killer was good; perhaps not an expert but
    good enough57 held six shells; five had been fired, but there had been sufficient time to
    reload the emptied cylinderAnother strategy—quickly!
    Suddenly another figure appeared, a man running up the road toward the rear of Flannagan’s
    cabinHe was in the open—he could be killed!
    “Over here, you bastard!” screamed Jason, jumping up and firing his automatic blindly into the
    shrubbery by the houseAnd then he got another answer, a welcome oneThere was a single spit, a
    single crack in the air and then no moreThe killer had not reloaded! Perhaps he had no more
    shells—whatever, the primary target was now on the high groundBourne raced out of the bushes
    and across the lawn through the opposing light of the flares; the dogs were now really aroused, the
    yelps and throated growls of attack becoming louderThe killer ran out of the shrubbery and into
    the road, racing through shadows toward the front gatesJason had the bastard, he knew
    8:23 am
    @@@@@Why don’t they? Truckers make good money;
    @@@@@Why don’t they?
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    Seventy, not Ninety-seven
    “Figure what? What are Seventy and Ninety-seven?”
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    manHit the head, then maybe later we’ll stop at a motel where we can continue our business
    discussion while you get an advance bonus
    “I beg your pardon?”
    “I’m pro-choiceIs that against your religion?”
    “Good Lord, noHurry up!”
    So Panov headed for the men’s room, and indeed the woman was rightThere was no phone,
    and the window to the outside was too small for anyone but a small cat or a large rat to crawl
    throughBut he had money, a great deal of money, along with five driver’s licenses from five
    different statesIn Jason Bourne’s lexicon these were weapons, especially the moneyMo went to
    the urinal—long overdue—and then to the door; he pulled it back several inches to observe the
    blondeSuddenly, the door swung violently back several feet and Panov crashed into the wall
    “Hey, sorry, pal!” cried a short heavyset man, who grabbed the psychiatrist by the shoulders as
    Mo grabbed his face“You okay, buddy?”
    “Oh, certainly
    “The hell you are, you got a nosebleed! C’mon over here by the towels,” ordered the T-shirted
    trucker, one sleeve rolled up to hold a pack of cigarettes“C’mon, put your head back while I get
    some cold water on your schnozLoosen up and lean against the wallThere, that’s better; we’ll
    stop this sucker in a moment or two The short man reached up and gently pressed the wet paper
    towels across Panov’s face while holding the back of his neck, and every few seconds checking the
    flow of blood from Mo’s nostrils“There y’are, buddy, it’s damned near stoppedJust breathe
    through your mouth, deep breaths, you got me? Head tilted, okay?”
    “Thank you,” said Panov, holding the towels and amazed that a nosebleed could be stopped so
    quickl
    Friday, December 24th, 2010
    12:27 pm
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    @@@@@She tugged at
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    a
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    older, no different from the time Scarlett had seen herI'd even be
    willing to bet those are same shawls she was wearing, Scarlett
    thought
    Cat busied herself the small dark cottage, getting cups from their
    shelf, raking the a cient-smelling burning peat into a mound of glowing
    embers for kettleShe was very much at home"I'll fill the kettle
    at the she said as she carried it outsideGrainne watched her
    lovingly"Dara visits me often," said the wise woman"It's her - to
    a lonely soulI haven't the heart to send her away, for she - the
    right of it"She likes to
    be alone, she doesn't have to - lonelyI've asked her time and again
    if she'd like to have come play, and she always says no
    "It's a wise childThey try to stone her, but Dara is too for
    them
    Scarlett couldn't believe she'd heard right"They do what?" children
    from the town, Grainne said placidly, hunted through woods for Dara,
    like a beastShe heard them, though, long they got to her
    Only the biggest ever came near enough to the stones they carried
    And
    those came near only because they run faster than Dara on longer,
    older
    legsShe knew how to even themThey wouldn't dare chase her into
    her tower, they - afraid of it, haunted as it was by the ghost of the
    young hanged Scarlett was aghastHer precious Cat tormented by the
    of
    Ballyhara! She'd whip every single one of them with her hands, she'd
    evict their parents and break every stick of their - - furniture into
    splinters! She started up out of her chai
    8:15 am
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    chair tried to clamp on him like a striped jaw,
    nor his sudden barrel-roll onto the sandIt
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    that, of course, made me think of the crane that
    had done the damage, the one with the fucked-up
    beeper that hadn't beeped, and all at once I saw
    myself as Wile ECoyote in the cab of my
    disintegrating pickup truck, eyes bugged in
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    the tipsI laughed until I rolled bonelessly
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    impossible for me to laugh any harder, but I did
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    begun to dim out as my brain went into oxygendeprivation
    mode
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    the verge of passing out but still laughing
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    That was how I met Wireman
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    Twenty minutes later the table had been placed in
    a rough approximation of its original position
    That was all very well, but neither of us could
    look at the umbrella without breaking into fits of
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    it now rose crookedly from the table, giving it
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    to the end of the wooden walk, and had taken it at
    my insistenceI was sitting on the walk itself,
    which, although backless, would make getting up an
    easier (not to mention more dignified) proposition
    Wireman had offered to replace the spilled pitcher
    of iced tea with a fresh oneI refused this, but
    agreed to split the miraculously unspilled glass
    with him
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