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"he doesn't need to," said clitumna, the first hint of doubt appearing in her tone.
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they were unbelievers and they left.
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god dammit.
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pyjamas, washing things, a small towel-after hesitation he added his passport.
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he seemed ... maybe more sure of himself, more sure he was right, and so he didn't have to yell about it or' keep convincing people.
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“and i assure you that flanna o’connor’s reputation is quite safe.
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“when the man phoned,” she said, gazing quietly upon her moving fingers, “and said jay had been in a—serious accident”; and now hannah realized that mary was looking at her, and met her brilliant gray eyes; “i felt it just as certainly as i’m sitting here now, ‘it’s his head.’ what do you think of t...
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when the other preacher replied, “from friday the nineteenth of august until tuesday, guess that’s the twenty-third,” i (who was holding the bridle of the preacher’s horse) understood that the date of my great mission, emanating from those ecclesiastical lips, had just then been revealed to me as vividly as the...
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please fix it.” bobby looked at him a little doubtfully.
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‘if this were it, i am sure i would be told.
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"stealing an entire tomb is certainly a challenge."
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surely murphy’s plane would have taken off again by now.
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“i wouldn’t call him a friend,” christine said, fighting for composure.
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for that matter, why shouldn’t i make myself one thousand dollars, just for going to los angeles and getting an interview that any crime reporter in the country would give anything to get?
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he turned back to vera and she asked the question in her eyes: “why?” “i’m not sure, but i think somebody was looking for a file i took the last time i came here.” “you?
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god, i could just eat him up right now.
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when it was time for nikki to go to bed, angela told david that she would see to nikki's respiratory therapy while he cleaned up the kitchen.
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before you tell his lordship or anyone else.
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but she couldn’t be a minister’s wife.
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since i’d never before walked this far in a day and didn’t want anybody to know until i was sure i had, i took over all the thinking myself.
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elisabeth wished she was bold enough to ask ben straight out, “so when will i see you?” rather, she said, “that doesn’t seem to leave much time for anything else.” “it sure doesn’t,” he said, looking past her to a cloud of dust boiling up from the gravel half a mile away.
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maybe god did, if there was a god.
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think about this: just a moment’s pleasure will ruin our lives for good.” she didn’t answer.
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you are dear to me beyond measure.
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hubert’s salutatory question, “douglas, what is this all about?” confirmed his suspicion that mrs. clausen had phoned him.
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but he was an untrained soldier on the battlefield, for he had never doubted and had never been wounded before.
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it was a tiny, unequipped and untrained bunch, yet as orde looked up toward the metal outline of the star on the synagogue, he felt the certain presence of other captains and other troops and the approving nod of their commander here watching today.
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robert was strangely oppressed.
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she did not have enough money to buy a return ticket, and at any rate, she knew in her bones, she could not return to her family in japan—her parents had sold her and paid a percentage to the deceitful baishakunin who had assured them that hisao had amassed great wealth during his years in america.
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elizabeth wanted to talk to him about the night before, but wasn’t sure how to approach the subject: “did you sleep all right?” “how are you today?” “that was a quite a storm we had last night.” none of the subtle approaches seemed right.
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he was only the second or third in his sprawling family (their religion, skip once said, was irish alcoholic) to ever go to college.
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he thought about peers and peer pressure and how every kid’s gonna hang with other kids.
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"living in a house where there's been a murder is very distressing," angela said.
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yet it was horrible to hear herself described this way: a “pauper,” a “half-naked pauper.” before the blight fell on the potatoes, her family had been hard-working and decent; if they had no savings it was only because the landlord took everything in rent.
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people can be cruel, and i wasn’t sure i could handle it if someone saw my scars.” her voice contained the rawness of remembered pain, but she continued steady and even.
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you won’t mind my saying that i would do the same for you, and take pleasure in it, and furthermore can easily see our positions reversed.
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she brushed the accusations and the suspicions aside.
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and yet she had accepted a certain darkness that she had lived in too intimately to deny.
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man is good—" "then you believe that god lies when he says that 'none save god is good?'"
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sending so many officers home on leave had lulled them into believing that israel wasn’t ready to attack.
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lost and forgotten it may \ be, but if you would hear such a tale, if you would learn the measure of a man whose name will outlast this sorry age, listen .
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well, it seems to me that it very definitely does have a structure and i’m not too sure if you’re being totally honest with us.” it was not put in the form of an accusation but as a polite, sincere, concerned inquiry.
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the clerk remembered him well enough to describe him and there’s no doubt about it being agrounsky.
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"surely not roman law."
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i don’t have to know for certain one way or the other if—” “nobody knows, ishmael.
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hee hee!” but tippis, faith knew, was not so easily set at ease.
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and now she was just repeating it, making it into a certainty.
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she wanted to know about his past, about his thoughts and his beliefs, about so many things.
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then he began “the old rugged cross” and they listened politely but when he had finished they said, “let us sing one!” and before he could start another, they began to sing with their convent-trained voices, “tantum ergo sacramentum veneremur cernui: et antiquum documentum novo cedat ritui:” ...
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he felt numb, almost relieved that a decision had been made, right or wrong; dreading the good-bye and the two hours he would have to kill before his boat was due; feeling the pressure of so much left unsaid between him and his father; puzzled by how this man sitting beside him could love him so much and understand him...
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they alone seemed without joy, sitting sternly in their sweltering uniforms and staring at general sherman as if at a tribal god, and disapproving of all the uproarious vivacity about them.
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“i hope my baby found a guardian angel that night.” she looked suddenly as if she might cry.
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would you allow me to place a mark on it by which it could always be told from the others?” luke had no doubts.
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i may have seen the car yesterday, too, but i can’t say for sure.” “god … please, no …” the words came out as a craggy whisper.
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he had lots of girlfriends, i’m sure, but he never quite got over my mom’s death.” “she died?
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mr. basie: i think the record will show that the entire course of the questioning has turned into a digression.
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i doubt an old theater could survive, if somebody really wanted to tote them all up.” “blackmail,” she said.
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“goddam her!” brenda said to me as she paced up and down my room.
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as he raced down the apartment steps, the volcanic anger within him swirled as in a lidded cauldron, a pressure cooker poised for eruption.
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if maureen could handle the conclusion of his report, surely she could, too.
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i could tell by the sound and the rhythm that he was a little drunk and i remember that at that moment a certain disappointment, an unprecedented sorrow entered into me.
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he was simply grateful—to liam for helping him through college and law school at seton hall; for the discovery that, in addition to a surprising gift for poetry, he had a decent head for law; for the softness in his mother’s eyes at his private swearing in, administered, at liam’s request, by the venerable judge ...
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i took the hint, and the fork; as i busied myself with the preparation of a fresh slice of bread, emerson went on, "in fact, i am certain he is not physically addicted to either opium or hashish.
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then, without hesitation, i dialed his number.
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“it sure is!” lorene cries out into the night, but agnes wonders if that’s what she really thinks.
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and so, no doubt, will you, you little heathen.” beth drew janie away from the counter, placing her hands on the girl’s shoulders and holding her close to her own body in a protective gesture.
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his hesitation allowed prudence to seize the bell rope.
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public health measure.
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the awful eyes, robbed of all humanity by anguish, disbelief, and torture, glared at joseph.
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no doubt the readers’ reports were excellent.
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let’s talk sensibly.” “fifty thousand?” she asked, uncertainly.
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in fact, you look it,” raymond said warily, not sure whether it was proper to talk about such things in front of these house-detective types.
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part iv “it is done …” surely i come quickly … cloudless sunlight suggesting neither hour nor season glows down upon me, wraps me with a cradle’s warmth as i drift toward the river’s estuary; the little boat rocks gently in our benign descent together toward the sea.
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“this is a pleasure,” he said, “unless you want my fingerprints to compare them with the ones you found on the dagger that was sticking in the back of the corpse.
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she measured by eye and by guess how far out from the wall to set them and began to dig.
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“i doubt it.
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doubtless these things were written in the stars before my birth and were unsusceptible of change.
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she’s in her christmas mood.
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“i may have given you the idea,” benning continued, “i didn’t have much faith in you.
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until i realised that, strictly speaking, we had no strategy; we had nothing to plan for nor even with: a horse whose very ownership was dubious and even (unless ned himself really knew) unknown, of whose past we knew only that he had consistently run just exactly fast enough to finish second to the other horse in the ...
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without hesitation or change of expression she said, "absolutely.
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taking her toil-roughened hands, he said tenderly, 'metella, you are indeed a faithful friend.
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“goddamn it!
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she is dead, and the child is your own.” wolf would make certain that those words were true.
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a wave of skepticism ran through the crowd.
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“and it’s sure as hell not how they remember me in cebu.” durant shrugged.
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"it has happened before, my friend, and will no doubt happen again.
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i’m sure we would be glad to have him play with our soldiers too.” the judge’s teeth glinted quietly.
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then they measured the distance he had covered, and the tractor, which kept the other end of the strap hooked to it, pulled the truck out.
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for some reason this young woman appeared to harbour extraordinary suspicions of me (of me!
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maybe dropping off another boyfriend catching a plane out of los angeles, anything.
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‘and what percentage of those women reporters,’ he asked softly, ‘would have nylon fibers under their nails if you subjected them to the same test that you administered to ms carelli?’ paget watched the faces in front of him focus on elizabeth shelton; beneath the particulars of the question, paget sensed th...
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is that so?” “precisely,” mordecai said, with relief and pleasure in his voice.
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why, they can't even read, for christ's sake.
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i have no doubt you paid highly for samos, but not what you have stated.
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i hate you, jorge, and if i could, i would lead you downstairs, across the ground, naked, with fowl’s feathers stuck in your asshole and your face painted like a juggler and a buffoon, so the whole monastery would laugh at you and be afraid no longer.
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after making sure that darnell wasn’t sneaking around spying on us, four of us carried tom back to the quarters to madame couseau, who was the healer.” they had reached the side road which led to joshua’s house, but brother emory didn’t even glance at it.
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gorman’s scam.” “sure.
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“meself hardly doubts that ye’re very sorry ye brought me.” “sorry?
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and you know, i’m never sure how to recover when something like that happens.
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