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did he dare raise with young ernie the subject of hidden treasure?
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“britain and germany will wipe one another out and leave europe to be dominated by atheistical communism!” he said.
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honey, make sure you give her our phone number….’” she spewed out the words, as if it were a matter of talking or exploding.
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he still had doubts about jackson's offer.
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“be sure and wipe your mouth with a napkin,” she said.
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with an abrupt clatter of heels toward the hall leaving open the odds and the hazard itself so certain of returning a minute later with the winning hand holding —the paper, see?
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but i knew i had kept no one alive, not ever: not those people in the opera, because sitting among them was surely that shape frank and i had seen in the car, driven away between ernst and arbeiter, that animal shape of death, that mechanical bear, that dog’s head of chemistry, that electrical charge of sorrow.
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she said, in disbelief.
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at the last moment, just as he was beginning to tell them, he always felt such sudden, profound doubt of their sincerity that he did not want to go ahead, but he always felt, too, maybe they mean it.
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when mary magna and sister roberta left on business in september, sister mary elizabeth and three, now, feckless students continued to pack, clean, study and maintain prayer.
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and i reluctantly perceive that you are already skeptical of my moral and judgmental qualities, so obviously you have quantified my beliefs as an aberration."
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in his parents' house rabbit not only reverts to peanut-butter sandwiches and cocoa and lazing in bed when the sounds of pop and nelson leaving have died; he finds himself faithfully masturbating the room itself demands it: a small long room he used to imagine as a railway car being dragged through the night.
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she assumed it had been taken from a treasure galleon.
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you worry too much, honest to god, you do.
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carolyn and her two children stood bewildered, uncertain what they should do.
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he wasn’t sure what he wanted to say, though he felt the words would come when he began to talk; but the more he thought about it, the more the idea scared him, and he decided he’d better not.
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determined that he would stand this time, he moved between the parallel bars, got his feet into place, and tightened his gluteals.
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he thought, “jesus, i can’t stand it!” he sobbed out loud, “c-christ, i can’t stand it!
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it was angela who broke the silence.
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when she was certain sue would be out of sight, she retraced her steps and stood in front of the restaurant into which cheong and his lookalike had disappeared.
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william was dubious.
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“if this were an orthodox hospital on shabbat, i would certainly believe that i was blind.
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she had become a broker, he a pastor and, over the past seven years, the author of three mystery novels.
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she doubted that there were more beautiful lands in the world than her own, but she could easily believe that there were countries less steeped in vanity, malice, sloth, and contempt for women.
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. . all soaked and gasping he stumbled past an embrasure, fighting through a tangle of country people and slaves who pushed first one way, then another; they did not know where to run, they felt that they must run somewhere.
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at least the goddam thing was off his head.
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ronsard was to have been among them, although he was presumed drowned try as he might, jaspin could not make any connection between these people and any possible threat they might hold for him, though the group certainly seemed most suspicious.
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returning to arabic, he addressed the priest.
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first and foremost would undoubtedly have been: "she goes out alone."
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i don’t love him, and he certainly doesn’t love me.
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"see a shrink, read a book, join a church, talk with me.
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surely not younger men.
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she was sure it was he.
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it was certainly a change from spending christmas with his wife in london.
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he was convening with his followers, young men like himself, then suddenly he pausea ind glanced over his shoulder, and his eyes lighted on me.
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“if he ain’t, he’s the first live man i’ve ever seen who could hold still while he was getting kicked in the balls.” rose’s eyes lit up like i’d given her a christmas purty.
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into the open doorway stepped one of that pair of bejeaned abductors who had looked vaguely familiar to me out in the parking lot where my last act as a free man was to lend a helping hand to an anti-semitic priest.
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i was obviously confusing pressure from my peers with god’s inner guidance.
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if you were an ordinary girl i’d be sure by this time where i stood.
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"the priest had to look it up.
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well, to get along in charleston, that’s what you have to do—you don’t dare speak your mind about anything from god to the hired help.” i wasn’t in town to chronicle social conventions, so i decided to change the subject.
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his eyes were alert but quiet, and in the miraculous moonlight they had a look of composure and of ancient wisdom as if they belonged to one of the great guides of men.
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he couldn’t be sure the shadow at his heels was mine, as i couldn’t be sure the shadow whose heels i followed belonged to him; but as i had no doubts about him, he had none about me.
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then eddie’s voice, disbelieving: “nobody.
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for if he entertained so much as the merest suspicion that the child was his none of this would be taking place.
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hellfire in offing.
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and, he said to himself, if cousin nestor is involved in something, there isn’t any doubt that this is shaping into a new case.
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. . —i know she had it, my god i was with her wasn’t i?
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no doubt by accident.
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an avenue bordered with ram’s-headed sphinxes carved in stone led to it, right through the city from the temple and pool of the moon goddess.
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to tell you my honest opinion you and mrs. ferry would hit it off splendidly, you’re both equally childish.” “lucy, just because mr. ferry owns a shoe factory doesn’t make them more important christians than somebody who works in a shoe factory.” “oh jack, you’re too tiresome.
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the dirty snow looked as if it shone through crêpe, and the firs behind the churchyard railings, wet and dark like tarnished silver, seemed to be in deep mourning.
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steps rose to the level of the church floor, which was above the street entrance.
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but bobbi jo had only fired thirty rounds before she was certain that she had the scope adjusted for close-quarters battle.
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certainly she would survive another few weeks without hannah's undivided attention.
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ben was a good man, and he had his own suspicions, but the last thing he needed right now was yet another debate about supernatural forces at work.
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his judges, being also spanish, and prone to judge a man’s importance by his dress—a reflection of his financial state, which was in turn proof of his caste—were inclined to doubt he was so dangerous as they had thought, since lizardi at that moment was “emaciated, pallid, of shabby appearance,” with his “b...
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“yes,” he said, “that is certainly a fine argument.
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but she could not tune out the soft motherly whispers of devotion and comfort.
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at any rate, one would expect a waiter who daily waited on people like the mayor and helmuth to show a certain mistrust, a certain skepticism, if only as a defense against the unexpected assault, the unexpected complaint, the unexpected betrayal.
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but was it god doing all this?
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he wanted to be dead sure.
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wadley's face was inches from angela's.
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sure, you bandogs, and it’s men like us you think you can fright with your twaddle of hanging?
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“he convinced me to, every time.
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“it just so happens that i know the s.s. orinoco sails from southampton this afternoon, for rio, and there will be at least two empty berths aboard.” “this afternoon?” lord wentwater pulled a gold hunter from his fob pocket.
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willie set off at a brisk gait, setting the pace for his rapid questioning.
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there can be no other like me.” “i sure believe you’re right.” “do you ever want to kiss me?” “always.” “what else do you want to do with me?” “i couldn’t say.” “you may say.” “not me.
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and your personal assessment of his credibility, well, i imagine that if you believed my story you'd write your reports a certain way, and inform the district attorney that the case is probably untenable.
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he supposed, since hudson was an atheist, that rupert shared the same viewpoint.
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“no doubt its wit is too keen for your coarse sensors,” i said.
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“you will doubtless find the avenue much changed.” john’s politeness is pleasing, but his gift for saying only the obvious makes him something less than the perfect companion.
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coming to help, no doubt.
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there are simply times when i find it necessary to curtail activities—leave a dinner party early, absent myself on weekends to the mediterranean, or decline a few days on the slopes in gstaad.” “i’m not sure i understand.” “my wife and i are often apart.
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that way, the centuries called upon to vote could be sure that each man's opinion wasn't known.
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some liberals missed the brilliance and charm of lord rosebery, others were glad that the haze of doubt surrounding the party leader’s intentions had finally lifted.
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he just mounted his horse and rode away.” “faith, ’tis good he did.” murchadh reached out, smoothed the frizzed hair at her temple, then dropped his hand to his side.
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old naledi i spent the better part of the next day trying to ascertain where in gaborone denoon was staying.
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from the position of the sun at that hour of the day, i noticed that the main church door opened perfectly westward, so choir and altar were facing east; and the good morning sun, in rising, could directly wake the monks in the dormitory and the animals in the stables.
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oh god, for just a little release from pressure!
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“i could damn well think of other names— i will be goddamned!” “no wonder he’d x-ed out your name.” mendoza laughed.
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he was instantly alert, unmoving, un-breathing, watching and waiting and desperately calculating the distance of a sound he wasn't sure he had even heard.
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if i get any calls from los angeles, you can tell the caller i’m on the way back there now.” i was packed and gassed and on the road west ten minutes after that.
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now, some twenty years later, his uncles listened weekly to misner’s sermons, but at the close of each of them they slid behind the steering wheel of their oldsmobile and impala and repeated the old fathers’ refrain: “oklahoma is indians, negroes and god mixed.
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with tears drenching her cheeks, she repeated opa’s words spoken in the church: “‘when moments of doubt come, simply rush to this spot and gaze on this painting and remember your anointing….
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i say again, we are sinners, sister!
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temporary to be sure, but the fighting has stopped.
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as the nazarene slept, the young follower studied him intently.
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i'm not sure that you want to take a chance on anybody's getting hurt.
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from france, la chartreuse de parme with subtitles and gérard philipe, and les enfants terribles and le silence de la mer; essie had never seen on the screen such disillusion, such despair, such blunt black godlessness, not even in the ox-bow incident.
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faith herself turned them away, excusing herself to do school- or housework, or simply hiding from them in her bedroom.
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i wasn’t sure which was worse—waiting for the baby to arrive or waiting for the dreaded draft notice.
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grey suggested that the best way of ascertaining facts was to let the naval attachés visit shipyards in both countries and see what ships had been laid down and how far along they were.
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he'd had a -number of other calls to finish; aaron green expected him to accomplish one hell of a lot for a single day, in washington.
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he shifted on his feet, unsure how much power he truly held over this scene.
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george, out there, he’s convinced of it.
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i only say this because i overhear the skeptical and desperate remarks, as though the town were being invaded.
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head lowered, from beneath his gray brows malachi studied the man, struggling to conceal his suspicion.
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the vogelers, however, remained skeptical.
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he found christopher todd already established in one of the heavy leather chairs.
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