Really? Evensong at seven. No, but really. Its a nice offer, but after my shift here Im wiped out. I like to just go home, comfort eat, cry. So Ill have to give it a miss, Im afraid. Another time then? Im playing the Bent Banana at the Cheshire Cat i

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The Sound of the Shell The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way towards the lagoon. Though he had taken off his school sweater and trailed it now from one hand, his grey shirt stuck to him and hi

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Sometimes he almost wanted to say this out loud, interrupt her and just tell her. But this was not one of those times and instead he thought how tired she looked, sad and pale, and when she looked at the floor her chin had started to pouch. Why didnt

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Thats nice for you both, Im sure. She poured wine into a plastic cup. So if shes not your girlfriend, what do I call her? I dont know. ―Lover‖? Doesnt that imply affection? How about ―conquest‖? he grinned. Can I say ―conquest‖ these days

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So, Ian, can we get two, no, three of the ―Remember the Alamo‖ margaritas. Two or three? Em, are you joining us? Dexter, I told you. Im working. Okay, in that case, do you know what? Well leave it then. Just the bill, please, um . . . Ian left an

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Certainly seems that way, said Emma. What was it, she wondered, this need to brandish his shiny new metropolitan life at her? As soon as shed met him at the arrivals gate on his return from Thailand, lithe and brown and shaven-headed, she knew that t

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19 IN CASE you don't live in New York, the Wicker Bar is in this sort of swanky hotel, the Seton Hotel. I used to go there quite a lot, but I don't any more. I gradually cut it out. It's one of those places that are supposed to be very sophisticated

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Chapter 4 He was much better. He was growing fatter and stronger every day, if it was proper to speak of days. The white light and the humming sound were the same as ever, but the cell was a little more comfortable than the others he had been in. The

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We can come here once again, said Julia. Its generally safe to use any hide-out twice. But not for another month or two, of course. As soon as she woke up her demeanour had changed. She became alert and business-like, put her clothes on, knotted the

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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Chapter 44 Elizabeth had settled it that Mr. Darcy would bring his sister to visit her the very day after her reaching Pemberley; and was consequently resolved not to be out of sight of the inn the whole of that mor

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Chapter 3 - Alexander the First at Vlna The Emperor of Russia had, meanwhile, been in Vilna for more than a month. reviewing troops and holding maneuvers. Nothing was ready for the war that everyone expected and to prepare for which the Emperor had c

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Chapter 4 - Balashvs mission to Napoleon At two in the morning of the fourteenth of June, the Emperor, having sent for Balashev and read him his letter to Napoleon, ordered him to take it and hand it personally to the French Emperor. When dispatching

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Chapter 5 - Balashv is at last presented to Napoleon in Vlna Davout was to Napoleon what Arakcheev was to Alexander though not a coward like Arakcheev, he was as precise, as cruel, and as unable to express his devotion to his monarch except by cruelt

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Chapter 7 - Balashv dines with Napoleon After all that Napoleon had said to him those bursts of anger and the last dryly spoken words: I will detain you no longer, General; you shall receive my letter, Balashev felt convinced that Napoleon would not

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Chapter 10 - Princess Marya makes up her mind to leave Boguchrovo After her fathers funeral Princess Marya shut herself up in her room and did not admit anyone. A maid came to the door to say that Alpatych was asking for orders about their departure.

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Chapter 11 - Princess Mary addresses the peasants An hour later Dunyasha came to tell the princess that Dron had come, and all the peasants had assembled at the barn by the princess order and wished to have word with their mistress. But I never told

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Chapter 22 Meanwhile, the city itself was deserted. There was hardly anyone in the streets. The gates and shops were all closed, only here and there round the taverns solitary shouts or drunken songs could be heard. Nobody drove through the streets a

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Chapter 2 - Prince Nikolai Bolkonsky's inability to understand the war The day after his son had left, Prince Nikolai sent for Princess Marya to come to his study. Well? Are you satisfied now? said he. Youve made me quarrel with my son! Satisfied, ar

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Chapter 8 - Prince Nikolai Bolkonsky is taken ill Princess Marya was not in Moscow and out of danger as Prince Andrey supposed. After the return of Alpatych from Smolensk the old prince suddenly seemed to awake as from a dream. He ordered the militia

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EMMA Volume Three by Jane Austen CHAPTER XIX If Emma had still, at intervals, an anxious feeling for Harriet, a momentary doubt of its being possible for her to be really cured of her attachment to Mr. Knightley, and really able to accept another man

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