3 CCs BROMPTON COCKTAIL. 3:00 P.M. Caravaggio slips the book out of the mans hands. When you crashed in the desertwhere were you flying from? He asks. I was leaving the Gilf Kebir. I had gone there to collect someone. In late August. Nineteen forty-t

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The Ungrateful Crocodile Once upon a time, a crocodile who lived in the Nile came out of the water and lost his way in the heart of the desert. He was dying of exhaustion and thirst. Soon he saw an Ar

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He would pack before the evening began, which would allow him to just climb into the truck the next morning, hung over. So he drove her into town, the air humid, the traffic bad and slow because of the hour. Its so hot. (she said). I need a beer. Do

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He was like his old self. He hardly looked at her on the drive, even when they were stalled for more than five minutes in one spot. At the hotel he was excessively polite. When he behaved this way she liked him even less; they all had to pretend this

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He walked back to the truck. She could feel his sweat now, like blood left by a blade which the gesture of his arm seemed to have imitated. She picks up a cushion and places it onto her lap as a shield against him. If you make love to me I wont lie a

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Each day he would return home and look at the black bruise in the mirror. He became curious, not so much about the bruise, but about the shape of his face. The long eyebrows he had never really noticed before, the beginning of grey in his sandy hair.

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Chapter 4 - Pierre's conversation with Princess Marya Princess Marya as she sat listening to the old mens talk and faultfinding, understood nothing of what she heard; she only wondered whether the guests had all observed her fathers hostile attitude

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Chapter 6 - The Rostvs stay with Mrya Dmitrievna At the end of January old Count Rostov went to Moscow with Natasha and Sonya. The countess was still unwell and unable to travel but it was impossible to wait for her recovery. Prince Andrey was expect

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Chapter 8 - The Rostvs at the Opera That evening the Rostovs went to the Opera, for which Marya Dmitrievna had taken a box. Natasha did not want to go, but could not refuse Marya Dmitrievnas kind offer which was intended expressly for her. When she c

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Chapter 12 - Hlne visits the Rostvs The day after the opera the Rostovs went nowhere and nobody came to see them. Marya Dmitrievna talked to the count about something which they concealed from Natasha. Natasha guessed they were talking about the old

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Chapter 7 - An evening at Uncles. Toward evening Ilagin took leave of Nikolai, who found that they were so far from home that he accepted Uncles offer that the hunting party should spend the night in his little village of Mikhaylovna. And if you put

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文本节选 Iam a dwarf. God made me this way. Im little, just like He made you have brownhair and blue eyes. Basedon birth records, its estimated that there are at least 15,000 people withdwarfism in the United States. And there are more than 200 d

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Your name is David Caravaggio, right? They had handcuffed him to the thick legs of an oak table. At one point he rose with it in his embrace, blood pouring away from his left hand, and tried to run with it through the thin door and falling. The woman

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He had, he thought, said nothing of worth to them. But they let him go, so perhaps he was wrong. Then he had walked along the Via di Santo Spirito to the one geographical location he had hidden away in his brain. Walked past Brunelleschis church towa

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He opened up his satchel for the Geiger counter and magnet. He ran the dial up and along the wires she was holding. No swerve to negative. No clue. Nothing. He stepped backwards, wondering where the trick could be. Let me tape those to the tree, and

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But he felt he was now within something, perhaps a painting he had seen somewhere in the last year. Some secure couple in a field. How many he had seen with their laziness of sleep, with no thought of work or the dangers of the world. If he were a he

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and they moved in the limited space between the bed and the wall, between bed and door, between the bed and the window alcove that Kip sat within. Every now and then as they turned she would see his face. Kip watched the large shadows slide over the

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Animal Farm by George Orwell In the autumn, by a tremendous, exhausting effort--for the harvest had to be gathered at almost the same time--the windmill was finished. The machinery had still to be installed, and Whymper was negotiating the purchase o

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Animal Farm by George Orwell Chapter I Mr. Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen-houses for the night, but was too drunk to remember to shut the pop-holes. With the ring of light from his lantern dancing from side to side, he lurched across th

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Part Nine The old man watched for him to come again but neither shark showed. Then he saw one on the surface swimming in circles. He did not see the fin of the other. I could not expect to kill them, he thought. I could have in my time. But I have hu

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