MY PULSE SHOT UP at the mention of Michael Campion’s name.
Michael Campion wasn’t just a kid. He was to Californians what JFK Jr. had been to the nation. The only child of our former governor Connor Hume Campion and his wife, Valentina, Michael Campion had been born into incredible wealth. He’d also been born with an inoperable heart defect and had been living on borrowed time for the whole of his life.
Through photos and newscasts, Michael’s life had been part of ours. He’d been a darling baby, a precocious and gifted child, and a handsome teenager, both funny and smart. His father had become a spokesman for the American Heart Association, and Michael was their adored poster boy. And while the public rarely saw Michael, they cared, always hoping that one day there would be a medical breakthrough and that California’s “Boy with a Broken Heart” would be given what most people took for granted - a full and vigorous life.
Then, back in January of this year, Michael had said good night to his parents, and in the morning his bedroom was empty. There was no ransom note. No sign of foul play. But a back door was unlocked and Michael was gone.
His disappearance was treated as a kidnapping, and the FBI launched a nationwide search. The SFPD did its own investigation, interviewing family members and retainers, Michael’s teachers and school friends, and his virtual online friends as well.
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2012年3月7日星期三
I’m on my own time
I glanced at the caller ID, expecting it to be my boyfriend, Joe, thinking he’d just gotten home and was checking in, but it was Lieutenant Warren Jacobi. My former partner and current boss.
“Jacobi?”
Yuki shouted, “Don’t stop, Claire. She could be on the phone all night!”
“Lindsay? Okay, fine,” Claire said, and then she went on. “I unzipped the body bag . . . and a bat flew out of the dead man’s clothes. I peed my pants,” Claire squealed behind me. “I really did!”
“Boxer? You there?” said Jacobi, gruff in my ear.
“I’m on my own time,” I growled into my cell phone. “It’s Saturday, don’t you know that?”
“You’re going to want this. If not, tell me and I’ll give it to Cappy and Chi.”
“What is it?”
“The biggest deal in the world, Boxer. It’s about the Campion kid. Michael.”
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“Jacobi?”
Yuki shouted, “Don’t stop, Claire. She could be on the phone all night!”
“Lindsay? Okay, fine,” Claire said, and then she went on. “I unzipped the body bag . . . and a bat flew out of the dead man’s clothes. I peed my pants,” Claire squealed behind me. “I really did!”
“Boxer? You there?” said Jacobi, gruff in my ear.
“I’m on my own time,” I growled into my cell phone. “It’s Saturday, don’t you know that?”
“You’re going to want this. If not, tell me and I’ll give it to Cappy and Chi.”
“What is it?”
“The biggest deal in the world, Boxer. It’s about the Campion kid. Michael.”
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WE SAT IN A CIRCLE around the fire pit behind our rental cottage near the spectacular Point Reyes National Seashore, an hour north of San Francisco.
“Lindsay, hold out your glass,” Cindy said.
I tasted the margarita - it was good. Yuki stirred the oysters on the grill. My border collie, Sweet Martha, sighed and crossed her paws in front of her, and firelight made flickering patterns on our faces as the sun set over the Pacific.
“It was one of my first cases in the ME’s office,” Claire was saying. “And so I was ‘it.’ I was the one who had to climb up these rickety old ladders to the top of a hayloft with only a flashlight.”
Yuki coughed as the tequila went down her windpipe, gasping for breath as Cindy and I yelled at her in unison, “Sip it!”
Claire thumped Yuki’s back and continued.
“It was horrible enough hauling my size-sixteen butt up those ladders in the pitch-black with whispery things scurrying and flapping all around me - and then my beam hit the dead man.
“His feet were hovering above the hay, and when I lit him up, I swear to God he looked like he was levitating. Eyes and tongue bugged out, like a freakin’ ghoul.”
“No way.” Yuki laughed. She was wearing pajama bottoms and a Boalt Law sweatshirt, her hair in a ponytail, already drunk on her one margarita, looking more like a college kid than a woman nearing thirty.
“I yelled down into the dark well of that barn,” Claire said, “got two big old boys to come up and cut the body down from the rafters and put Mr. Levitation into a body bag.”
Claire paused for dramatic effect - and right then my cell phone rang.
“Lind-say, no,” Cindy begged me. “Don’t take that call.”
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“Lindsay, hold out your glass,” Cindy said.
I tasted the margarita - it was good. Yuki stirred the oysters on the grill. My border collie, Sweet Martha, sighed and crossed her paws in front of her, and firelight made flickering patterns on our faces as the sun set over the Pacific.
“It was one of my first cases in the ME’s office,” Claire was saying. “And so I was ‘it.’ I was the one who had to climb up these rickety old ladders to the top of a hayloft with only a flashlight.”
Yuki coughed as the tequila went down her windpipe, gasping for breath as Cindy and I yelled at her in unison, “Sip it!”
Claire thumped Yuki’s back and continued.
“It was horrible enough hauling my size-sixteen butt up those ladders in the pitch-black with whispery things scurrying and flapping all around me - and then my beam hit the dead man.
“His feet were hovering above the hay, and when I lit him up, I swear to God he looked like he was levitating. Eyes and tongue bugged out, like a freakin’ ghoul.”
“No way.” Yuki laughed. She was wearing pajama bottoms and a Boalt Law sweatshirt, her hair in a ponytail, already drunk on her one margarita, looking more like a college kid than a woman nearing thirty.
“I yelled down into the dark well of that barn,” Claire said, “got two big old boys to come up and cut the body down from the rafters and put Mr. Levitation into a body bag.”
Claire paused for dramatic effect - and right then my cell phone rang.
“Lind-say, no,” Cindy begged me. “Don’t take that call.”
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Don’t leave us
HENRY JABLONSKY’S STOMACH HEAVED. He gagged against the thick wool of the sock, pulled against his restraints, smelled the sour odor of urine. Heat puddled under his clothes. Christ. He’d wet himself. But it didn’t matter. The only thing that mattered was to get out alive.
He couldn’t move. He couldn’t speak. But he could reason.
What could he do?
Jablonsky looked around from his place on the floor, took in the fire poker only yards away. He fixed his vision on that poker.
“Mrs. J.,” Pidge called out to Peggy, shaking a small turquoise box. “This is from Henry. A Peretti necklace. Very nice. What? You have something to say?”
Pidge went over to Peggy Jablonsky and took the sock out of her mouth.
“You don’t really know Dougie, do you?” she said.
“Dougie who?” Pidge laughed.
“Don’t hurt us -”
“No, no, Mrs. J.,” Pidge said, stuffing the sock back into his captive’s mouth. “No don’ts. This is our game. Our rules.”
The kitten pounced into the heap of wrapping paper as the gifts were opened; the diamond earrings, the Hermès tie, and the Jensen salad tongs, Jablonsky praying that they would just take the stuff and leave. Then he heard Pidge speak to Hawk, his voice more subdued than before, so that Jablonsky had to strain to hear over the blood pounding in his ears.
“Well? Guilty or not guilty?” Pidge asked.
Hawk’s voice was thoughtful. “The J.’s are living well, and if that’s the best revenge . . .”
“You’re kidding me, dude. That’s totally bogus.”
Pidge stepped over the pillowcase filled with the contents of the Jablonskys’ safe. He spread the Bradbury book open on the lamp table with the span of his hand, then picked up a pen and carefully printed on the title page.
Pidge read it back. “Sic erat in fatis, man. It is fated. Get the kit-cat and let’s go.”
Hawk bent over, said, “Sorry, dude. Mrs. Dude.” He took the sock out of Jablonsky’s mouth. “Say good-bye to Peggy.”
Henry Jablonsky’s mind scrambled. What? What was happening? And then he realized. He could speak! He screamed “Pegg-yyyyy” as the Christmas tree bloomed with a bright yellow glare, then went up in a great exhalation of flame.
VOOOOOOM.
Heat rose and the skin on Henry Jablonsky’s cheeks dried like paper. Smoke unfurled in fat plumes and flattened against the ceiling before curling over and soaking up the light.
“Don’t leave us!”
He saw the flames climbing the curtains, heard his dear love’s muffled screams as the front door slammed shut.
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He couldn’t move. He couldn’t speak. But he could reason.
What could he do?
Jablonsky looked around from his place on the floor, took in the fire poker only yards away. He fixed his vision on that poker.
“Mrs. J.,” Pidge called out to Peggy, shaking a small turquoise box. “This is from Henry. A Peretti necklace. Very nice. What? You have something to say?”
Pidge went over to Peggy Jablonsky and took the sock out of her mouth.
“You don’t really know Dougie, do you?” she said.
“Dougie who?” Pidge laughed.
“Don’t hurt us -”
“No, no, Mrs. J.,” Pidge said, stuffing the sock back into his captive’s mouth. “No don’ts. This is our game. Our rules.”
The kitten pounced into the heap of wrapping paper as the gifts were opened; the diamond earrings, the Hermès tie, and the Jensen salad tongs, Jablonsky praying that they would just take the stuff and leave. Then he heard Pidge speak to Hawk, his voice more subdued than before, so that Jablonsky had to strain to hear over the blood pounding in his ears.
“Well? Guilty or not guilty?” Pidge asked.
Hawk’s voice was thoughtful. “The J.’s are living well, and if that’s the best revenge . . .”
“You’re kidding me, dude. That’s totally bogus.”
Pidge stepped over the pillowcase filled with the contents of the Jablonskys’ safe. He spread the Bradbury book open on the lamp table with the span of his hand, then picked up a pen and carefully printed on the title page.
Pidge read it back. “Sic erat in fatis, man. It is fated. Get the kit-cat and let’s go.”
Hawk bent over, said, “Sorry, dude. Mrs. Dude.” He took the sock out of Jablonsky’s mouth. “Say good-bye to Peggy.”
Henry Jablonsky’s mind scrambled. What? What was happening? And then he realized. He could speak! He screamed “Pegg-yyyyy” as the Christmas tree bloomed with a bright yellow glare, then went up in a great exhalation of flame.
VOOOOOOM.
Heat rose and the skin on Henry Jablonsky’s cheeks dried like paper. Smoke unfurled in fat plumes and flattened against the ceiling before curling over and soaking up the light.
“Don’t leave us!”
He saw the flames climbing the curtains, heard his dear love’s muffled screams as the front door slammed shut.
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He had a knife
He said to Henry Jablonsky, “Wow, Mr. J., you’ve got Fahrenheit 451. This is a classic.”
Hawk pulled the book from the shelf, opened it to the first page. Then he stooped down to where Jablonsky was hog-tied on the floor with a sock in his mouth.
“You can’t beat Bradbury for an opening,” Hawk said. And then he read aloud with a clear, dramatic voice.
“ ‘It was a pleasure to burn. It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed.’ ”
As Hawk read, Pidge hauled a large package out from under the tree. It was wrapped in gold foil, tied with gold ribbon. Something Peggy had always wanted and had waited for, for years.
“To Peggy, from Santa,” Pidge read from the gift tag. He sliced through the wrappings with a knife.
He had a knife!
Pidge opened the box, peeled back the layers of tissue.
“A Birkin bag, Peggy. Santa brought you a nine-thousand-dollar purse! I’d call that a no, Peg. A definite no.”
Pidge reached for another wrapped gift, shook the box, while Hawk turned his attention to Peggy Jablonsky. Peggy pleaded with Hawk, her actual words muffled by the wad of sock in her mouth. It broke Henry’s heavy heart to see how hard she tried to communicate with her eyes.
Hawk reached out and stroked Peggy’s baby-blond hair, then patted her damp cheek. “We’re going to open all your presents now, Mrs. J. Yours too, Mr. J.,” he said. “Then we’ll decide if we’re going to let you live.”
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Hawk pulled the book from the shelf, opened it to the first page. Then he stooped down to where Jablonsky was hog-tied on the floor with a sock in his mouth.
“You can’t beat Bradbury for an opening,” Hawk said. And then he read aloud with a clear, dramatic voice.
“ ‘It was a pleasure to burn. It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed.’ ”
As Hawk read, Pidge hauled a large package out from under the tree. It was wrapped in gold foil, tied with gold ribbon. Something Peggy had always wanted and had waited for, for years.
“To Peggy, from Santa,” Pidge read from the gift tag. He sliced through the wrappings with a knife.
He had a knife!
Pidge opened the box, peeled back the layers of tissue.
“A Birkin bag, Peggy. Santa brought you a nine-thousand-dollar purse! I’d call that a no, Peg. A definite no.”
Pidge reached for another wrapped gift, shook the box, while Hawk turned his attention to Peggy Jablonsky. Peggy pleaded with Hawk, her actual words muffled by the wad of sock in her mouth. It broke Henry’s heavy heart to see how hard she tried to communicate with her eyes.
Hawk reached out and stroked Peggy’s baby-blond hair, then patted her damp cheek. “We’re going to open all your presents now, Mrs. J. Yours too, Mr. J.,” he said. “Then we’ll decide if we’re going to let you live.”
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They said this was only a robbery.
TINY LIGHTS WINKED on the Douglas fir standing tall and full in front of the picture window. Swags of Christmas greenery and dozens of cards decked the well-appointed living room, and apple logs crackled in the fireplace, scenting the air as they burned.
A digitized Bing Crosby crooned “The Christmas Song.”
“Chestnuts roasting on an open fire. Jack Frost nipping at your nose . . .”
Henry Jablonsky couldn’t see the boys clearly. The one called Hawk had snatched off his glasses and put them a mile away on the fireplace mantel, a good thing, Jablonsky had reasoned at the time.
It meant that the boys didn’t want to be identified, that they were planning to let them go. Please, God, please let us live and I’ll serve you all the days of my life.
Jablonsky watched the two shapes moving around the tree, knew that the gun was in Hawk’s waistband. He heard wrapping paper tear, saw the one called Pidge dangling a bow for the new kitten.
They’d said they weren’t going to hurt them.
They said this was only a robbery.
Jablonsky had memorized their faces well enough to describe to a police sketch artist, which he would be doing as soon as they got the hell out of his home.
Both boys looked as though they’d stepped from the pages of a Ralph Lauren ad.
Hawk. Clean-cut. Well-spoken. Blond, with side-parted hair. Pidge, bigger. Probably six two. Long brown hair. Strong as a horse. Meaty hands. Ivy League types. Both of them.
Maybe there really was some goodness in them.
As Jablonsky watched, the blond one, Hawk, walked over to the bookshelf, dragged his long fingers across the spines of the books, calling out titles, his voice warm, as though he were a friend of the family.
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A digitized Bing Crosby crooned “The Christmas Song.”
“Chestnuts roasting on an open fire. Jack Frost nipping at your nose . . .”
Henry Jablonsky couldn’t see the boys clearly. The one called Hawk had snatched off his glasses and put them a mile away on the fireplace mantel, a good thing, Jablonsky had reasoned at the time.
It meant that the boys didn’t want to be identified, that they were planning to let them go. Please, God, please let us live and I’ll serve you all the days of my life.
Jablonsky watched the two shapes moving around the tree, knew that the gun was in Hawk’s waistband. He heard wrapping paper tear, saw the one called Pidge dangling a bow for the new kitten.
They’d said they weren’t going to hurt them.
They said this was only a robbery.
Jablonsky had memorized their faces well enough to describe to a police sketch artist, which he would be doing as soon as they got the hell out of his home.
Both boys looked as though they’d stepped from the pages of a Ralph Lauren ad.
Hawk. Clean-cut. Well-spoken. Blond, with side-parted hair. Pidge, bigger. Probably six two. Long brown hair. Strong as a horse. Meaty hands. Ivy League types. Both of them.
Maybe there really was some goodness in them.
As Jablonsky watched, the blond one, Hawk, walked over to the bookshelf, dragged his long fingers across the spines of the books, calling out titles, his voice warm, as though he were a friend of the family.
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2012年3月6日星期二
Choose marriage gauze not known secret! Work is the key
Marriage gauze is every woman's dream life, put on beautiful marriage gauze, beginning of happiness. How to select wedding dresses to show the bride of the perfect one side? This is let many the bride was puzzling problem, happens to be in the bride's wedding in most of the attention problems. Choose marriage gauze, everybody often pay attention to color, style, but very few people will pay attention to work in, in fact the so-called work "good" is so of......
Wearing a white dress is different from the fashion and evening dress, is the bride in life, the most important dress, thus in the tens of thousands of in marriage gauze, narrow range, until eventually try on several sets will make the final decision. Today we go with you to talk about not for the attention of everyone choose marriage gauze details! Must make wedding dress every detail, was perfect, become beautiful memories of her lifetime.
herringbone
Not every kind of design all need the fishbone, straight body design will not need. Also not each clothes herringbone added the more the better. Generally speaking four root can, at most 6 root. Of course there are some underwear design practice inside can add to the root. Good fish bone soft and toughness. Not to be hard can tree up is a good bones, flexibility is good is. Unless underwear type practices, otherwise bones should be installed in the lining, not should be installed in the surface of the clothes.
lining
The general YuSha should do. But in here to introduce two fastidious practice. The first is the marriage gauze of abdominal place outfit, helps to promote abdominal curve, still have a kind of way is in the chest of the corresponding back two of the same DaGou bra, in this style with the chest type in marriage gauze application can make chest type perfect, and clothes and body fit well. For some softer marriage gauze fabrics, exquisite also in marriage gauze fabrics inside lining a layer of soft gauze nets.
skirt
The skirt lining yarn can't because we want to wear petticoat and saved. Generally 3 to 6 layers can be. This can cover up the bones of a petticoat her cheek. Fish, straight body, can not consider lining yarn.
Herringbone yarn
In addition to line yarn, large delay marriage gauze skirt, must be in a circle on the edge with fishbone yarn. Is a kind of hard yarn. This hard should be wrapped in gauze satin edge inside. Advantage is that it can make skirt natural prolapse, and natural dragged back, not because around but skirt knit up. Many trailing a beginning will people out flat, then walked a few steps cloth will knit up, to help even bridesmaids. With these hard yarn won't, to a 360 degree turn also won't have a problem, it's still very flat.
Chest against
According to individual be fond of. Do not advocate outfit chest against, because a look that is false, the clothes in the chest not natural. But should still should see individual be fond of.
embroidery
Generally flower shop than the process cheaper embroidery pattern. Embroidery is to spend time, human. Spread the cut good bud silk flower is posted on satin above.
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Wearing a white dress is different from the fashion and evening dress, is the bride in life, the most important dress, thus in the tens of thousands of in marriage gauze, narrow range, until eventually try on several sets will make the final decision. Today we go with you to talk about not for the attention of everyone choose marriage gauze details! Must make wedding dress every detail, was perfect, become beautiful memories of her lifetime.
herringbone
Not every kind of design all need the fishbone, straight body design will not need. Also not each clothes herringbone added the more the better. Generally speaking four root can, at most 6 root. Of course there are some underwear design practice inside can add to the root. Good fish bone soft and toughness. Not to be hard can tree up is a good bones, flexibility is good is. Unless underwear type practices, otherwise bones should be installed in the lining, not should be installed in the surface of the clothes.
lining
The general YuSha should do. But in here to introduce two fastidious practice. The first is the marriage gauze of abdominal place outfit, helps to promote abdominal curve, still have a kind of way is in the chest of the corresponding back two of the same DaGou bra, in this style with the chest type in marriage gauze application can make chest type perfect, and clothes and body fit well. For some softer marriage gauze fabrics, exquisite also in marriage gauze fabrics inside lining a layer of soft gauze nets.
skirt
The skirt lining yarn can't because we want to wear petticoat and saved. Generally 3 to 6 layers can be. This can cover up the bones of a petticoat her cheek. Fish, straight body, can not consider lining yarn.
Herringbone yarn
In addition to line yarn, large delay marriage gauze skirt, must be in a circle on the edge with fishbone yarn. Is a kind of hard yarn. This hard should be wrapped in gauze satin edge inside. Advantage is that it can make skirt natural prolapse, and natural dragged back, not because around but skirt knit up. Many trailing a beginning will people out flat, then walked a few steps cloth will knit up, to help even bridesmaids. With these hard yarn won't, to a 360 degree turn also won't have a problem, it's still very flat.
Chest against
According to individual be fond of. Do not advocate outfit chest against, because a look that is false, the clothes in the chest not natural. But should still should see individual be fond of.
embroidery
Generally flower shop than the process cheaper embroidery pattern. Embroidery is to spend time, human. Spread the cut good bud silk flower is posted on satin above.
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Ten big wedding with flowers and represents meaning
Flowers with a wedding dress is common modelling wedding photos, however, different flowers meaning each are not identical, the bride when collocation not only pay attention to appearance beautiful, carelessly, collocation errors, can want to make a fool of yourself, here is some common introduced hunshazhao flowers represent specific meaning.
1, rose-love
The rose is the best love spokesperson, many new picture taken, the preferred rose, but rose color different meaning may differ: the red rose means: love you; Pink rose said to themselves, love of estrogen declaration; White rose said: naive, purity, and respect of meaning.
2, carnations-sweet
Most of the carnation represents love, charm and respect of love. Shallow red representative admire, deep red to represent the deep love and care. Pure white represents the pure love and lucky; Decorative pattern on behalf of courtship tune carnation refused to apologize. The most important is pink carnations symbol and historical significance, so the immortality of pink carnations become the symbol of a mother's love.
3, gladiolus, miss
Gladiolus flowers represent the miss of love. Also said love, diligently, longevity, corning, fu lu.
4, lilies-pure
In Christianity, lily is a symbol of purity, pure and innocent. At Easter, lily flowers is often in the Christian families, because it is the symbol of the resurrection of Jesus. In China, lily is the symbol of a mother's love. In the Roman and Greek wedding. Lily is a symbol of purity and innocence, with lilies of grain as a bride with the tire, the significance of the grain and make it plentiful, or in one hundred. In the middle ages, the beauty of the female lily is the symbol. Lily to represent purity of heart. Lilies color is rich, most people with the white lilies innocence and sweet linked together. They'd think white lilies of Mary flowers, yellow lily said gratitude and happy.
5, moth orchids (phalaenopsis)-true love
This kind of flower like butterflies, spend appearance beautiful and moving, adornment sex is extremely rich. Representative moth orchids (phalaenopsis) between the lover true love, is the important flowers bridal bouquet of material.
6, all over the sky star-joker flowers
Representatives of concern, pure, success, and joy, and is called the wedding "joker flowers".
7, QingRenCao-romantic
This beautiful form fleeciness lightsome,, like a cloud, often inserted in the main flowers scattered material surface or the voids, increased administrative levels sense, the foil, foil and filling effect, in the wedding with flowers and design in the most indispensable spend materials. It means romantic.
8, don't you forget about me-true love
It asks the significance of kindness, eternal friendship, don't forget me, and true love.
9, helped lang flowers-respect and love each other
Helped lang flower (Africa chrysanthemum) symbol of perseverance, the horns. In some areas, like marriage celebration in with lang take plunge into a bouquet help decorate bridal chamber. Take the harmonic meaning, reflect the couple on respect and love of idea. Africa chrysanthemum radial shape, often as main body flower arrangement, and renal fern, asparagus phase configuration.
10, horse-religious
Symbol "holy law religious and tie the knot, and good luck". In the European and American countries of the ceremony, the bride is a flower flower material used.
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1, rose-love
The rose is the best love spokesperson, many new picture taken, the preferred rose, but rose color different meaning may differ: the red rose means: love you; Pink rose said to themselves, love of estrogen declaration; White rose said: naive, purity, and respect of meaning.
2, carnations-sweet
Most of the carnation represents love, charm and respect of love. Shallow red representative admire, deep red to represent the deep love and care. Pure white represents the pure love and lucky; Decorative pattern on behalf of courtship tune carnation refused to apologize. The most important is pink carnations symbol and historical significance, so the immortality of pink carnations become the symbol of a mother's love.
3, gladiolus, miss
Gladiolus flowers represent the miss of love. Also said love, diligently, longevity, corning, fu lu.
4, lilies-pure
In Christianity, lily is a symbol of purity, pure and innocent. At Easter, lily flowers is often in the Christian families, because it is the symbol of the resurrection of Jesus. In China, lily is the symbol of a mother's love. In the Roman and Greek wedding. Lily is a symbol of purity and innocence, with lilies of grain as a bride with the tire, the significance of the grain and make it plentiful, or in one hundred. In the middle ages, the beauty of the female lily is the symbol. Lily to represent purity of heart. Lilies color is rich, most people with the white lilies innocence and sweet linked together. They'd think white lilies of Mary flowers, yellow lily said gratitude and happy.
5, moth orchids (phalaenopsis)-true love
This kind of flower like butterflies, spend appearance beautiful and moving, adornment sex is extremely rich. Representative moth orchids (phalaenopsis) between the lover true love, is the important flowers bridal bouquet of material.
6, all over the sky star-joker flowers
Representatives of concern, pure, success, and joy, and is called the wedding "joker flowers".
7, QingRenCao-romantic
This beautiful form fleeciness lightsome,, like a cloud, often inserted in the main flowers scattered material surface or the voids, increased administrative levels sense, the foil, foil and filling effect, in the wedding with flowers and design in the most indispensable spend materials. It means romantic.
8, don't you forget about me-true love
It asks the significance of kindness, eternal friendship, don't forget me, and true love.
9, helped lang flowers-respect and love each other
Helped lang flower (Africa chrysanthemum) symbol of perseverance, the horns. In some areas, like marriage celebration in with lang take plunge into a bouquet help decorate bridal chamber. Take the harmonic meaning, reflect the couple on respect and love of idea. Africa chrysanthemum radial shape, often as main body flower arrangement, and renal fern, asparagus phase configuration.
10, horse-religious
Symbol "holy law religious and tie the knot, and good luck". In the European and American countries of the ceremony, the bride is a flower flower material used.
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The whole process is cut fish wedding dress according to the outline of the outline of the bride body design, even if the human body is completely cover word, also can very good show the human body shape. And, in the bride's wedding dress like a choice, does not need to petticoat, the skirt at the lower end of the can also design a mermaid style.
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"The daughter of the sea" as Anderson's a vivid image, many girls don't but fresh and it will be in the beauty of her admiration. In the life most important moment put on such a beautiful wedding dress fish, to show the world the princess grace and beauty. The guangzhou city.china bride must be in mind think vanda vivid appearance series, but also is not to say that all the girls like the tail marriage gauze, and, fishplate to the bride's wedding dress figure also have certain requirements.
Although fishplate to be bride wedding dress of the figure is very nice, but wear up after it had on aesthetic feeling that one. If you be aware to stop those members of the upper classes in Paris, it is not hard to find their favorite fish style is, it becomes a symbol of status. Fish skirt has a comparatively significantly characteristics, that is its never-ending journey skirt is equal shoulder width, main basis the bride figure curve cut, will be a very good the bride's outline perfect show.
The whole process is cut fish wedding dress according to the outline of the outline of the bride body design, even if the human body is completely cover word, also can very good show the human body shape. And, in the bride's wedding dress like a choice, does not need to petticoat, the skirt at the lower end of the can also design a mermaid style.
And not to say that choose fish marriage gauze gets the job done, with the top still need to spend some time. A pair of high-heeled shoes can let the bride more radiant and colourful have recalled of power. In addition, the right chest with good design of the bride full bosom curve appear.
Fish marriage gauze also have a feature is the curve of his plays, the design inspiration is hip from the waist style, the whole wedding dress looks like is alive mermaid of their beautiful lawsuit said. For some of the bride was a little meat meat, had better be able to choose some gauze in modified.
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Incredible marriage customs let you a music around
1, France--the legend of eggs
In some rural France has such traditional customs: the girl in marriage that day, to secretly take a few eggs Tibet in the clothing. When the bridegroom accompanies the bride the nuptial chamber, and the bride intentionally tumbles, mix the egg touch to break, can give birth the children by this symbol.
White is the French romantic marriage white wedding's color, whether with flower arrangement, or the bride's clothes, and even all arranged adornment, all is white,
Can see France in the eyes of the marriage should be pure. The wedding, the bride will be prepared, called "Weddingarmosre" for the cabinet of the dowry, engraved with manual fine fine on health and prosperity, symbol design, is have again "magazine of hope" the laudatory name; And in new talent with cup also has the specific name, called the "Coupdemarriage" means "the cup of wedding"
2, Thailand-and the trees of their marriage
Thai people are quite believe in Buddhism, Buddhism is recognized as the state religion. Every man at a certain age, have a house to a monk, little is three months, is more than 35 years, or even a lifetime, even is no exception. If a man not as a monk, it cannot be regarded as an adult, not only relatives and look down upon, even to look for the girlfriend is very difficult also. Buddhism in Thailand has more visible big influence. This buddhist etiquette even performance in the ceremony.
In some parts of southern Thailand, often can see some people around a banging away trees, singing ManWu, originally is the local men in their marriage ceremony held and the tree. Don't look at the object of their marriage is not talking tree, but ceremony with the true but men and women as the wedding ceremony was lively.
Married with trees, the man sent the price being paid filled in the silver bowl, called "niche" flower "or" niche "food". Niches and spend is usually 25 betelnut fruit, and food is for more niche's favorite snacks, candy, and the pillow, the mat and candles, etc.
The wedding ceremony before the start of the bridegroom, and dressed in a luxuriant dress, in all the a dolled herself up girl to speak, ChangGu by saying, the formidable came to the village elders in selected before the big tree. Girls will be displayed in the price being paid "the bride tree" before, announced the beginning of the elders. At this time, the groom will out a candle, and lit them one by one, into one in niches and side, and then read the scriptures to the elders out of the relevant section. Then, the groom's father put some fresh flowers, betelnut and several missiles silver on the pillow and niches, most older in the village to the old lady represents "new niang tree" accept gifts, candles are out, the wedding ceremony. People began to the groom, best and a meal, and after song dance together, until the evening.
According to the local customs, anyone who is the age of 21 years old man will hold a wedding ceremony with trees. Finish after the ceremony, then the house monk, until after the resume secular life with women love marriage, a family. In the local traditional concepts of trees with exuberant vitality, married with trees, can get the Buddha bless, get loyalty to love, establish a happy family.
3, Mauritania--designed rob fat the bride
Moore is one of the major national Mauritania, their wedding is unique.
Long-term since, daughter's marriage is by when my mother's family, when father's can't intervention. A young man value which girl, his mother will be there with a gift to the girl's mother close there to propose, the girl's mother if agree, marriage and agreed down on the spot.
Moore in people's eyes, only waist thick, neck short, hip is prominent, the breast of the bride is recognized as high beauties. Because fat woman is a symbol of wealth. If a young man married obesity super wife, their wedding inevitable abnormal grand, many people will also worked from nacson, see the bride's looks.
In fact, in order to make "beauty marry niang", the mother always compete to research the way of obesity. Riches and honour the somebody else's girl, from the age of seven, are for the daily housemaid with grease on the body, drink milk, and eat high fat food, rarely participate in outdoor activities. The daughter of ordinary people every day to follow the arrangement of the parents also drink a lot of camel milk. In addition, the girls will take off regularly almost every day in the soft sand clothes turn roll around, it is said that that the body uneven place to wear away, see not the meat bones become fat girl.
The wedding, the bride's wedding dress with deep national colors. The groom dressed in white or blue enlargement of the new gown, head over a for three meters more white turbans. The bride dressed in colour and lustre bright-coloured flower skirt, head over to skirt the same color cloth scarf.
After the wedding, the couple together a week, then return to their parents' side. Two months later, then live together for a few days, and then to separate. So repeated cycle, for two years before and after. Two years later, the bridegroom with relatives and friends together, and finding camel came to the bride's family, will the bride to collect. Since then began to each other is not separate Cardiff wife to life.
Mauritania marriage customs in that person, it is to have certain origin. In the past, Mauritania is the marriage of early and often more than ten years old girl to marry. The bride is still a child, married every few days will be back to the home, the bride meet the various things about to her mother, the mother taught her how to do a carefully good daughter-in-law, to serve her and take care of her husband. Two years later, the bride grew up, can deal with the housework, move away from the mother, the bride and groom apart two life is over.
4, Mali-the bride to the full, hand, gum with black
Mali is a country of western Africa, where the marriage customs is more special.
According to Mali customs, before the ceremony, men and women both parties family to their tense and preparation. The man is cleaning the yard, and the family natural decorate bridal chamber, invited guests, and preparing for the wedding ceremony party, etc. The family are mainly is to prepare for a dowry and dress up the bride. Mali bride much attention to style. In order to let oneself appear more lively and vigorous, the bride will often take roll song hair straight, a wig will hair extension, again into countless root
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In some rural France has such traditional customs: the girl in marriage that day, to secretly take a few eggs Tibet in the clothing. When the bridegroom accompanies the bride the nuptial chamber, and the bride intentionally tumbles, mix the egg touch to break, can give birth the children by this symbol.
White is the French romantic marriage white wedding's color, whether with flower arrangement, or the bride's clothes, and even all arranged adornment, all is white,
Can see France in the eyes of the marriage should be pure. The wedding, the bride will be prepared, called "Weddingarmosre" for the cabinet of the dowry, engraved with manual fine fine on health and prosperity, symbol design, is have again "magazine of hope" the laudatory name; And in new talent with cup also has the specific name, called the "Coupdemarriage" means "the cup of wedding"
2, Thailand-and the trees of their marriage
Thai people are quite believe in Buddhism, Buddhism is recognized as the state religion. Every man at a certain age, have a house to a monk, little is three months, is more than 35 years, or even a lifetime, even is no exception. If a man not as a monk, it cannot be regarded as an adult, not only relatives and look down upon, even to look for the girlfriend is very difficult also. Buddhism in Thailand has more visible big influence. This buddhist etiquette even performance in the ceremony.
In some parts of southern Thailand, often can see some people around a banging away trees, singing ManWu, originally is the local men in their marriage ceremony held and the tree. Don't look at the object of their marriage is not talking tree, but ceremony with the true but men and women as the wedding ceremony was lively.
Married with trees, the man sent the price being paid filled in the silver bowl, called "niche" flower "or" niche "food". Niches and spend is usually 25 betelnut fruit, and food is for more niche's favorite snacks, candy, and the pillow, the mat and candles, etc.
The wedding ceremony before the start of the bridegroom, and dressed in a luxuriant dress, in all the a dolled herself up girl to speak, ChangGu by saying, the formidable came to the village elders in selected before the big tree. Girls will be displayed in the price being paid "the bride tree" before, announced the beginning of the elders. At this time, the groom will out a candle, and lit them one by one, into one in niches and side, and then read the scriptures to the elders out of the relevant section. Then, the groom's father put some fresh flowers, betelnut and several missiles silver on the pillow and niches, most older in the village to the old lady represents "new niang tree" accept gifts, candles are out, the wedding ceremony. People began to the groom, best and a meal, and after song dance together, until the evening.
According to the local customs, anyone who is the age of 21 years old man will hold a wedding ceremony with trees. Finish after the ceremony, then the house monk, until after the resume secular life with women love marriage, a family. In the local traditional concepts of trees with exuberant vitality, married with trees, can get the Buddha bless, get loyalty to love, establish a happy family.
3, Mauritania--designed rob fat the bride
Moore is one of the major national Mauritania, their wedding is unique.
Long-term since, daughter's marriage is by when my mother's family, when father's can't intervention. A young man value which girl, his mother will be there with a gift to the girl's mother close there to propose, the girl's mother if agree, marriage and agreed down on the spot.
Moore in people's eyes, only waist thick, neck short, hip is prominent, the breast of the bride is recognized as high beauties. Because fat woman is a symbol of wealth. If a young man married obesity super wife, their wedding inevitable abnormal grand, many people will also worked from nacson, see the bride's looks.
In fact, in order to make "beauty marry niang", the mother always compete to research the way of obesity. Riches and honour the somebody else's girl, from the age of seven, are for the daily housemaid with grease on the body, drink milk, and eat high fat food, rarely participate in outdoor activities. The daughter of ordinary people every day to follow the arrangement of the parents also drink a lot of camel milk. In addition, the girls will take off regularly almost every day in the soft sand clothes turn roll around, it is said that that the body uneven place to wear away, see not the meat bones become fat girl.
The wedding, the bride's wedding dress with deep national colors. The groom dressed in white or blue enlargement of the new gown, head over a for three meters more white turbans. The bride dressed in colour and lustre bright-coloured flower skirt, head over to skirt the same color cloth scarf.
After the wedding, the couple together a week, then return to their parents' side. Two months later, then live together for a few days, and then to separate. So repeated cycle, for two years before and after. Two years later, the bridegroom with relatives and friends together, and finding camel came to the bride's family, will the bride to collect. Since then began to each other is not separate Cardiff wife to life.
Mauritania marriage customs in that person, it is to have certain origin. In the past, Mauritania is the marriage of early and often more than ten years old girl to marry. The bride is still a child, married every few days will be back to the home, the bride meet the various things about to her mother, the mother taught her how to do a carefully good daughter-in-law, to serve her and take care of her husband. Two years later, the bride grew up, can deal with the housework, move away from the mother, the bride and groom apart two life is over.
4, Mali-the bride to the full, hand, gum with black
Mali is a country of western Africa, where the marriage customs is more special.
According to Mali customs, before the ceremony, men and women both parties family to their tense and preparation. The man is cleaning the yard, and the family natural decorate bridal chamber, invited guests, and preparing for the wedding ceremony party, etc. The family are mainly is to prepare for a dowry and dress up the bride. Mali bride much attention to style. In order to let oneself appear more lively and vigorous, the bride will often take roll song hair straight, a wig will hair extension, again into countless root
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7 kinds of Hot classic wedding color scheme
The colour clever apply can greatly improve the quality of the wedding, different theme wedding can use different color to convey, in color and color, the crisscross of light and shadow search for different case tone. Small make up recommend to you the hottest wedding of seven color scheme, which type is your favorite?
1. The pink peach color wedding
Like pink bride is love romantic girl, always brings a person with the colors of the peach light sweet, with such colour adornment wedding will be full of thick happiness. Whether flower art, cake, the toast covers or adornment small things, everything is so tender and inviting.
Colour collocation: different shades of pink, shallow brown, green light
2. The yellow and blue passion collisions
"Bump color" is now popular color matching method, and yellow and blue bump color is undoubtedly the most eye-catching one of the match. Bright yellow lively jump out, let the quiet of the blue also appears nifty reiki up.
Colour collocation: yellow, blue, shallow ash
3. Brown and white snow forest
If the wedding is held in in the winter, so use some winter color can better rendering winter this theme. Brown, green, white colour of these nature ably collocation, pinecone, trees, white snow these elements can let your wedding extraordinary.
Colour is tie-in, white, green, brown, brown
4. The quiet of the blue wedding
Light blue wedding can always bring a person pure and fresh and elegant feeling. If you are a like quiet bride, so this dopey voice is very suitable for you. Blue and white is cold tonal, can bring fresh and cool feeling it, also can make the space appears more open, like lively festival of new careful have the colour.
Colour collocation: white, black, brown, blue
5. Golden pink build
The gold and pink belong to warm color department, ably collocation are together, can let the wedding to make people feel very warm and comfortable, if in the wedding place cannot provide natural lighting, use this kind of color can feel the layout of environment appears compact and warm. Pink is tender color, also represents girl pursuit of romantic feelings. Gold is luxuriant and expensive gas, these two kinds of colour collocation, make the dream princess temperament.
Colour collocation: pink, brown, brown, shallow ash
6. High grey alternative wedding color
With gray for wedding theme color is very, very rare, the average people like warmth, festive colors. But if used correctly, the gray can also create another sort of flavor, make your wedding personality, extraordinary.
Colour collocation: white, light brown, shallow brown, shallow gray
7. The forest is pure and fresh and green
Like nature of pure and fresh, so green outdoor wedding can satisfy your needs. With bouncing, fresh green decorate the table, ceremony area, with wooden chair of mensal, eat, again with a white gauze, the adornment such as BaiChou, spring in the harmonious and perfect colour collocation.
Colour collocation: green, deep brown, shallow ash, white, lilac
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1. The pink peach color wedding
Like pink bride is love romantic girl, always brings a person with the colors of the peach light sweet, with such colour adornment wedding will be full of thick happiness. Whether flower art, cake, the toast covers or adornment small things, everything is so tender and inviting.
Colour collocation: different shades of pink, shallow brown, green light
2. The yellow and blue passion collisions
"Bump color" is now popular color matching method, and yellow and blue bump color is undoubtedly the most eye-catching one of the match. Bright yellow lively jump out, let the quiet of the blue also appears nifty reiki up.
Colour collocation: yellow, blue, shallow ash
3. Brown and white snow forest
If the wedding is held in in the winter, so use some winter color can better rendering winter this theme. Brown, green, white colour of these nature ably collocation, pinecone, trees, white snow these elements can let your wedding extraordinary.
Colour is tie-in, white, green, brown, brown
4. The quiet of the blue wedding
Light blue wedding can always bring a person pure and fresh and elegant feeling. If you are a like quiet bride, so this dopey voice is very suitable for you. Blue and white is cold tonal, can bring fresh and cool feeling it, also can make the space appears more open, like lively festival of new careful have the colour.
Colour collocation: white, black, brown, blue
5. Golden pink build
The gold and pink belong to warm color department, ably collocation are together, can let the wedding to make people feel very warm and comfortable, if in the wedding place cannot provide natural lighting, use this kind of color can feel the layout of environment appears compact and warm. Pink is tender color, also represents girl pursuit of romantic feelings. Gold is luxuriant and expensive gas, these two kinds of colour collocation, make the dream princess temperament.
Colour collocation: pink, brown, brown, shallow ash
6. High grey alternative wedding color
With gray for wedding theme color is very, very rare, the average people like warmth, festive colors. But if used correctly, the gray can also create another sort of flavor, make your wedding personality, extraordinary.
Colour collocation: white, light brown, shallow brown, shallow gray
7. The forest is pure and fresh and green
Like nature of pure and fresh, so green outdoor wedding can satisfy your needs. With bouncing, fresh green decorate the table, ceremony area, with wooden chair of mensal, eat, again with a white gauze, the adornment such as BaiChou, spring in the harmonious and perfect colour collocation.
Colour collocation: green, deep brown, shallow ash, white, lilac
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Wikipedia wedding! Western countries wedding customs
In America, Britain and other western countries, in the ceremony, the bride and groom is unique wedding testimony, and the traditional Chinese wedding customs and the wedding ceremony is not big. General is to hold the Lord by father, these is said to be the ancient originated from the wedding custom......
veil
At first the bride wear a veil is as a young and the symbol of virginity, Catholic bride wear a veil represent purity. Therefore, many the bride to the wedding in church when choose wear double veil, the father of the bride will after daughter to the groom, groom unveiled by hand.
Diamond ring
The bible says, in ancient times, men marry women to the evidence is ring. 9 th century, the Pope Nicholas I enacted laws, regulations, the man presented the wedding ring to woman is formally proposed essential steps.
tire
The bride wedding day the custom of wearing the headdress, has a long history, the old woman in the best age to get married will be wearing garlands, so as to distinguish from married women, a symbol of the virgin.
The color of the bridal gown
The color of the wedding dress represents the traditional, also have particular meanings: white for pure virgin, American and British common yellow is the symbol of love and rich.
bouquet
Flowers represent passion and reward, transmits the prosperity and rich and extraordinary message, to the bridal bouquet will have good luck, also will be next to tie the knot.
The bride stood in the left side of the bridegroom
This custom originated in popular s reveal, worried about the bride's family will be in the wedding will be the bride rob back, the groom must take the right hand at any time to a response.
Kiss each other
According to custom, the wedding ceremony is the new kiss to an end. It has a profound meaning of a kiss: through the kiss, a person's breath and part of the soul will stay in another person inside body, love makes them together.
Holding the bride into the bridal chamber
This custom is from some native tribes in the marriage customs of evolved, because these tribes of the single woman too little, so the man to neighboring villages rob close, will carry them away, so that they will run away with. Today, people think, the bride can't use the left foot forward into the new house door, so it is best to let the bridegroom bride will hold a room.
The couple's car
When the couple honeymoon start by bus, the car will be on the back of the many cans tied, it originated in ancient custom of throwing shoes, the wedding guests to throw the new shoes, that if there are shoes hit the new car ride, that will bring good luck.
Car horns
With the new car all the way behind the team kept whistling, to ward off the evil.
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veil
At first the bride wear a veil is as a young and the symbol of virginity, Catholic bride wear a veil represent purity. Therefore, many the bride to the wedding in church when choose wear double veil, the father of the bride will after daughter to the groom, groom unveiled by hand.
Diamond ring
The bible says, in ancient times, men marry women to the evidence is ring. 9 th century, the Pope Nicholas I enacted laws, regulations, the man presented the wedding ring to woman is formally proposed essential steps.
tire
The bride wedding day the custom of wearing the headdress, has a long history, the old woman in the best age to get married will be wearing garlands, so as to distinguish from married women, a symbol of the virgin.
The color of the bridal gown
The color of the wedding dress represents the traditional, also have particular meanings: white for pure virgin, American and British common yellow is the symbol of love and rich.
bouquet
Flowers represent passion and reward, transmits the prosperity and rich and extraordinary message, to the bridal bouquet will have good luck, also will be next to tie the knot.
The bride stood in the left side of the bridegroom
This custom originated in popular s reveal, worried about the bride's family will be in the wedding will be the bride rob back, the groom must take the right hand at any time to a response.
Kiss each other
According to custom, the wedding ceremony is the new kiss to an end. It has a profound meaning of a kiss: through the kiss, a person's breath and part of the soul will stay in another person inside body, love makes them together.
Holding the bride into the bridal chamber
This custom is from some native tribes in the marriage customs of evolved, because these tribes of the single woman too little, so the man to neighboring villages rob close, will carry them away, so that they will run away with. Today, people think, the bride can't use the left foot forward into the new house door, so it is best to let the bridegroom bride will hold a room.
The couple's car
When the couple honeymoon start by bus, the car will be on the back of the many cans tied, it originated in ancient custom of throwing shoes, the wedding guests to throw the new shoes, that if there are shoes hit the new car ride, that will bring good luck.
Car horns
With the new car all the way behind the team kept whistling, to ward off the evil.
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2012年2月27日星期一
Nazorine glanced at her shrewdly
Enzo, a very short, strongly built boy, put his hand over his heart and said almost in tears, yet cleverly, "Padrone, I swear by the Holy Virgin I have never taken advantage of your kindness. I love your daughter with all respect. I ask for her hand with all respect. I know I have no right, but if they send me back to Italy I can never come back to America. I will never be able to marry Katherine."
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Nazorine's wife, Filomena, spoke to the point. "Stop all this foolishness," she said to her pudgy husband. "You know what you must do. Keep Enzo here, send him to hide with our cousins in Long Island."
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Katherine was weeping. She was already plump, homely and sprouting a faint moustache. She would never get a husband as handsome as Enzo, never find another man who touched her body in secret places with such respectful love. "I'll go and live in Italy," she screamed at her father. "I'll run away if you don't keep Enzo here."
Nazorine glanced at her shrewdly. She was a "hot number" this daughter of his. He had seen her brush her swelling buttocks against Enzo's front when the baker's helper squeezed behind her to fill the counter baskets with hot loaves from the oven. The young rascal's hot loaf would be in her oven, Nazorine thought lewdly, if proper steps were not taken. Enzo must be kept in America and be made an American citizen. And there was only one man who could arrange such an affair. The Godfather. Don Corleone.
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Nazorine's wife, Filomena, spoke to the point. "Stop all this foolishness," she said to her pudgy husband. "You know what you must do. Keep Enzo here, send him to hide with our cousins in Long Island."
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Katherine was weeping. She was already plump, homely and sprouting a faint moustache. She would never get a husband as handsome as Enzo, never find another man who touched her body in secret places with such respectful love. "I'll go and live in Italy," she screamed at her father. "I'll run away if you don't keep Enzo here."
Nazorine glanced at her shrewdly. She was a "hot number" this daughter of his. He had seen her brush her swelling buttocks against Enzo's front when the baker's helper squeezed behind her to fill the counter baskets with hot loaves from the oven. The young rascal's hot loaf would be in her oven, Nazorine thought lewdly, if proper steps were not taken. Enzo must be kept in America and be made an American citizen. And there was only one man who could arrange such an affair. The Godfather. Don Corleone.
Have you dishonored my family
Johnny sat on the floor with his face in his hands. The sick, humiliating despair overwhelmed him. And then the gutter toughness that had helped him survive the jungle of Hollywood made him pick up the phone and call for a car to take him to the airport. There was one person who could save him. He would go back to New York. He would go back to the one man with the power, the wisdom he needed and a love he still trusted. His Godfather Corleone.
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The baker, Nazorine, pudgy and crusty as his great Italian loaves, still dusty with flour, scowled at his wife, his nubile daughter, Katherine, and his baker's helper, Enzo. Enzo had changed into his prisoner-of-war uniform with its green-lettered armband and was terrified that this scene would make him late reporting back to Governor's Island. One of the many thousands of Italian Army prisoners paroled daily to work in the American economy, he lived in constant fear of that parole being revoked. And so the little comedy being played now was, for him, a serious business.
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Nazorine asked fiercely, "Have you dishonored my family? Have you given my daughter a little package to remember you by now that the war is over and you know America will kick your ass back to your village full of shit in Sicily?"
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The baker, Nazorine, pudgy and crusty as his great Italian loaves, still dusty with flour, scowled at his wife, his nubile daughter, Katherine, and his baker's helper, Enzo. Enzo had changed into his prisoner-of-war uniform with its green-lettered armband and was terrified that this scene would make him late reporting back to Governor's Island. One of the many thousands of Italian Army prisoners paroled daily to work in the American economy, he lived in constant fear of that parole being revoked. And so the little comedy being played now was, for him, a serious business.
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Nazorine asked fiercely, "Have you dishonored my family? Have you given my daughter a little package to remember you by now that the war is over and you know America will kick your ass back to your village full of shit in Sicily?"
2012年2月24日星期五
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"Wait a moment, children," suggested Mrs. Lee to them, "one thing at a time! Keineth is tired, perhaps. Take her upstairs, Peggy, and let her slip on a blouse and your old serge bloomers--then go outside and play!"
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Overlook really wasn't like a house at all--Keineth had never seen anything quite like it. There was one big living-room with a veranda running around it and with big doors opening from three sides upon the veranda so that the room itself was just like out-of-doors. One end of the veranda was enclosed in glass and used as a dining-room. Flowers in boxes were on the sills of the windows and over them the sun streamed through chintz-curtained windows. Upstairs were two rooms over the living-rooms, and opening from these were screened sleeping porches, with rows of little cots. Peggy explained that the rooms were used as dressing-rooms and that each one of the family had a little chest of drawers for their own clothes and that mother had brought the oak one in the corner out from town for Keineth's use.
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"But where do you sleep when it rains?" cried Keineth.
"Oh, out there," laughed Peggy; "you see, the roof slants down so far that it keeps out the rain. That's your cot--between Barb's and mine."
Keineth caught a glimpse of a great blue stretch of water glistening in the bright sunlight a quarter of a mile away.
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"Oh--is that the lake?" she exclaimed, eagerly.
"Yes--we'll go down to the beach in a little while. Can you swim? Mother will teach you--she taught each one of us. I'm going to try for the life-saving medal this year! We have sport contests at the club in August. Can you play tennis?" Keineth said no. Peggy's manner became just a little patronizing. "Oh, it's easy to learn, though it'll take you quite awhile to serve a good ball, but you can practice with Alice. Can you play golf?"
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Overlook really wasn't like a house at all--Keineth had never seen anything quite like it. There was one big living-room with a veranda running around it and with big doors opening from three sides upon the veranda so that the room itself was just like out-of-doors. One end of the veranda was enclosed in glass and used as a dining-room. Flowers in boxes were on the sills of the windows and over them the sun streamed through chintz-curtained windows. Upstairs were two rooms over the living-rooms, and opening from these were screened sleeping porches, with rows of little cots. Peggy explained that the rooms were used as dressing-rooms and that each one of the family had a little chest of drawers for their own clothes and that mother had brought the oak one in the corner out from town for Keineth's use.
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"But where do you sleep when it rains?" cried Keineth.
"Oh, out there," laughed Peggy; "you see, the roof slants down so far that it keeps out the rain. That's your cot--between Barb's and mine."
Keineth caught a glimpse of a great blue stretch of water glistening in the bright sunlight a quarter of a mile away.
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"Oh--is that the lake?" she exclaimed, eagerly.
"Yes--we'll go down to the beach in a little while. Can you swim? Mother will teach you--she taught each one of us. I'm going to try for the life-saving medal this year! We have sport contests at the club in August. Can you play tennis?" Keineth said no. Peggy's manner became just a little patronizing. "Oh, it's easy to learn, though it'll take you quite awhile to serve a good ball, but you can practice with Alice. Can you play golf?"
I'm awfully glad you came
"Hello," said Peggy, smiling. Alice smiled, too, but hung back a little, and Billy swept a critical glance over Keineth's city-clad little figure. Mr. Lee, holding Alice's hand in his, was walking toward an automobile in which sat the eldest daughter.
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"I'm awfully glad you came," began Peggy as the children followed. "It'll be such fun!"
"Is this Keineth?" cried the girl in the automobile, jumping out to greet her father. Keineth had pictured Barbara as quite a young lady--she had always thought seventeen very old--but Barbara was dressed in a blue skirt and a middy blouse like Peggy's and wore her hair in a long, thick braid. She had her father's kind eyes and the friendliness of their glance warmed poor little Keineth's homesick soul. She gave the child a little pat on the shoulder.
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"We're just awfully glad you're here," she said, taking Keineth's bag. Then, to her father: "We didn't think Genevieve would run! She's been acting awful--but we just made her crawl up here to meet you."
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"Genevieve's the name of the automobile," giggled Peggy as the smaller girls cuddled into the back seat. Billy rode on the running board and Barbara took the steering wheel.
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"I'm awfully glad you came," began Peggy as the children followed. "It'll be such fun!"
"Is this Keineth?" cried the girl in the automobile, jumping out to greet her father. Keineth had pictured Barbara as quite a young lady--she had always thought seventeen very old--but Barbara was dressed in a blue skirt and a middy blouse like Peggy's and wore her hair in a long, thick braid. She had her father's kind eyes and the friendliness of their glance warmed poor little Keineth's homesick soul. She gave the child a little pat on the shoulder.
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"We're just awfully glad you're here," she said, taking Keineth's bag. Then, to her father: "We didn't think Genevieve would run! She's been acting awful--but we just made her crawl up here to meet you."
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"Genevieve's the name of the automobile," giggled Peggy as the smaller girls cuddled into the back seat. Billy rode on the running board and Barbara took the steering wheel.
2012年2月23日星期四
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"And the old man pointed out to Dan his room across the way--the room that looked out upon the garden and the monument."
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Jud Hardy, who lives at Windy Cove on the river some eighteen miles "back" from Corinth, had been looking forward to Fair time for months. Not that Jud had either things to exhibit or money to buy things exhibited. For while Jud professed to own, and ostensibly to cultivate a forty, he gained his living mostly by occasional "spells of work" on the farms of his neighbors. In lieu of products of his hand or fields for exhibition at the annual fair, Jud invariably makes an exhibition of himself, never failing thus to contribute his full share to the "other amusements," announced on the circulars and in the Daily Corinthian, as "too numerous to mention."
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The citizens of the Windy Cove country have a saying that when Jud is sober and in a good humor and has money, he is a fairly good fellow, if he is not crossed in any way. The meat of which saying is in the well known fact, that Jud is never in a good humor when he is not sober, that he is never sober when he has money; and that with the exception of three or four kindred spirits, whose admiration for the bad man is equalled only by their fear of him, no one has ever been able to devise a way to avoid crossing him when he is in his normal condition.
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With three of the kindred spirits, Jud arrived in Corinth that day, with the earliest of the visitors, and the quartette proceeded, at once, to warm up after their long ride. By ten o'clock they were well warmed. Just as the ten-forty train was slowing up at the depot, Jud began his exhibition. It took place at the post office where the crowd was greatest, because of the incoming mail. Stationing himself near the door, the man from Windy Cove blocked the way for everyone who wanted to pass either in or out of the building. For the women and young girls he stepped aside with elaborate, drunken politeness and maudlin, complimentary remarks. For the men who brushed him he had a scowling curse and a muttered threat. Meanwhile, his followers nearby looked on in tipsy admiration and "'lowed that there was bound to be somethin' doin', for Jud was sure a-huntin' trouble."
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Jud Hardy, who lives at Windy Cove on the river some eighteen miles "back" from Corinth, had been looking forward to Fair time for months. Not that Jud had either things to exhibit or money to buy things exhibited. For while Jud professed to own, and ostensibly to cultivate a forty, he gained his living mostly by occasional "spells of work" on the farms of his neighbors. In lieu of products of his hand or fields for exhibition at the annual fair, Jud invariably makes an exhibition of himself, never failing thus to contribute his full share to the "other amusements," announced on the circulars and in the Daily Corinthian, as "too numerous to mention."
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The citizens of the Windy Cove country have a saying that when Jud is sober and in a good humor and has money, he is a fairly good fellow, if he is not crossed in any way. The meat of which saying is in the well known fact, that Jud is never in a good humor when he is not sober, that he is never sober when he has money; and that with the exception of three or four kindred spirits, whose admiration for the bad man is equalled only by their fear of him, no one has ever been able to devise a way to avoid crossing him when he is in his normal condition.
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With three of the kindred spirits, Jud arrived in Corinth that day, with the earliest of the visitors, and the quartette proceeded, at once, to warm up after their long ride. By ten o'clock they were well warmed. Just as the ten-forty train was slowing up at the depot, Jud began his exhibition. It took place at the post office where the crowd was greatest, because of the incoming mail. Stationing himself near the door, the man from Windy Cove blocked the way for everyone who wanted to pass either in or out of the building. For the women and young girls he stepped aside with elaborate, drunken politeness and maudlin, complimentary remarks. For the men who brushed him he had a scowling curse and a muttered threat. Meanwhile, his followers nearby looked on in tipsy admiration and "'lowed that there was bound to be somethin' doin', for Jud was sure a-huntin' trouble."
2012年2月20日星期一
A town so sacred to fact
A town so sacred to fact, and so triumphant in its assertion, of course got on well? Why no, not quite well. No? Dear me!
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No. Coketown did not come out of its own furnaces, in all respects like gold that had stood the fire. First, the perplexing mystery of the place was, Who belonged to the eighteen denominations? Because, whoever did, the labouring people did not. It was very strange to walk through the streets on a Sunday morning, and note how few of them the barbarous jangling of bells that was driving the sick and nervous mad, called away from their own quarter, from their own close rooms, from the corners of their own streets, where they lounged listlessly, gazing at all the church and chapel going, as at a thing with which they had no manner of concern. Nor was it merely the stranger who noticed this, because there was a native organization in Coketown itself, whose members were to be heard of in the House of Commons every session, indignantly petitioning for acts of parliament that should make these people religious by main force.
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Then came the Teetotal Society, who complained that these same people would get drunk, and showed in tabular statements that they did get drunk, and proved at tea parties that no inducement, human or Divine (except a medal), would induce them to forego their custom of getting drunk. Then came the chemist and druggist, with other tabular statements, showing that when they didn't get drunk, they took opium. Then came the experienced chaplain of the jail, with more tabular statements, outdoing all the previous tabular statements, and showing that the same people would resort to low haunts, hidden from the public eye, where they heard low singing and saw low dancing, and mayhap joined in it; and where A. B., aged twenty-four next birthday, and committed for eighteen months' solitary, had himself said (not that he had ever shown himself particularly worthy of belief) his ruin began, as he was perfectly sure and confident that otherwise he would have been a tip-top moral specimen.
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No. Coketown did not come out of its own furnaces, in all respects like gold that had stood the fire. First, the perplexing mystery of the place was, Who belonged to the eighteen denominations? Because, whoever did, the labouring people did not. It was very strange to walk through the streets on a Sunday morning, and note how few of them the barbarous jangling of bells that was driving the sick and nervous mad, called away from their own quarter, from their own close rooms, from the corners of their own streets, where they lounged listlessly, gazing at all the church and chapel going, as at a thing with which they had no manner of concern. Nor was it merely the stranger who noticed this, because there was a native organization in Coketown itself, whose members were to be heard of in the House of Commons every session, indignantly petitioning for acts of parliament that should make these people religious by main force.
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Then came the Teetotal Society, who complained that these same people would get drunk, and showed in tabular statements that they did get drunk, and proved at tea parties that no inducement, human or Divine (except a medal), would induce them to forego their custom of getting drunk. Then came the chemist and druggist, with other tabular statements, showing that when they didn't get drunk, they took opium. Then came the experienced chaplain of the jail, with more tabular statements, outdoing all the previous tabular statements, and showing that the same people would resort to low haunts, hidden from the public eye, where they heard low singing and saw low dancing, and mayhap joined in it; and where A. B., aged twenty-four next birthday, and committed for eighteen months' solitary, had himself said (not that he had ever shown himself particularly worthy of belief) his ruin began, as he was perfectly sure and confident that otherwise he would have been a tip-top moral specimen.
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It had a black canal in it
COKETOWN, to which Messrs. Bounderby and Gradgrind now walked, was a triumph of fact; it had no greater taint of fancy in it than Mrs. Gradgrind herself. Let us strike the key-note, Coketown, before pursuing our tune.
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It was a town of red brick, or of brick that would have been red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it; but as matters stood, it was a town of unnatural red and black like the painted face of a savage. It was a town of machinery and tall chimneys, out of which interminable serpents of smoke trailed themselves for ever and ever, and never got uncoiled. It had a black canal in it, and a river that ran purple with ill-smelling dye, and vast piles of building full of windows where there was a rattling and a trembling all day long, and where the piston of the steam-engine worked monotonously up and down, like the head of an elephant in a state of melancholy madness. It contained several large streets all very like one another, and many small streets still more like one another, inhabited by people equally like one another, who all went in and out at the same hours, with the same sound upon the same pavements, to do the same work, and to whom every day was the same as yesterday and to-morrow, and every year the counterpart of the last and the next.
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These attributes of Coketown were in the main inseparable from the work by which it was sustained; against them were to be set off, comforts of life which found their way all over the world, and elegancies of life which made, we will not ask how much of the fine lady, who could scarcely bear to hear the place mentioned. The rest of its features were voluntary, and they were these.
You saw nothing in Coketown but what was severely workful. If the members of a religious persuasion built a chapel there - as the members of eighteen religious persuasions had done - they made it a pious warehouse of red brick, with sometimes (but this is only in highly ornamental examples) a bell in a birdcage on the top of it.
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The solitary exception was the New Church; a stuccoed edifice with a square steeple over the door, terminating in four short pinnacles like florid wooden legs. All the public inscriptions in the town were painted alike, in severe characters of black and white. The jail might have been the infirmary, the infirmary might have been the jail, the town-hall might have been either, or both, or anything else, for anything that appeared to the contrary in the graces of their construction. Fact, fact, fact, everywhere in the material aspect of the town; fact, fact, fact, everywhere in the immaterial. The M'Choakumchild school was all fact, and the school of design was all fact, and the relations between master and man were all fact, and everything was fact between the lying-in hospital and the cemetery, and what you couldn't state in figures, or show to be purchaseable in the cheapest market and saleable in the dearest, was not, and never should be, world without end, Amen.
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It was a town of red brick, or of brick that would have been red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it; but as matters stood, it was a town of unnatural red and black like the painted face of a savage. It was a town of machinery and tall chimneys, out of which interminable serpents of smoke trailed themselves for ever and ever, and never got uncoiled. It had a black canal in it, and a river that ran purple with ill-smelling dye, and vast piles of building full of windows where there was a rattling and a trembling all day long, and where the piston of the steam-engine worked monotonously up and down, like the head of an elephant in a state of melancholy madness. It contained several large streets all very like one another, and many small streets still more like one another, inhabited by people equally like one another, who all went in and out at the same hours, with the same sound upon the same pavements, to do the same work, and to whom every day was the same as yesterday and to-morrow, and every year the counterpart of the last and the next.
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These attributes of Coketown were in the main inseparable from the work by which it was sustained; against them were to be set off, comforts of life which found their way all over the world, and elegancies of life which made, we will not ask how much of the fine lady, who could scarcely bear to hear the place mentioned. The rest of its features were voluntary, and they were these.
You saw nothing in Coketown but what was severely workful. If the members of a religious persuasion built a chapel there - as the members of eighteen religious persuasions had done - they made it a pious warehouse of red brick, with sometimes (but this is only in highly ornamental examples) a bell in a birdcage on the top of it.
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The solitary exception was the New Church; a stuccoed edifice with a square steeple over the door, terminating in four short pinnacles like florid wooden legs. All the public inscriptions in the town were painted alike, in severe characters of black and white. The jail might have been the infirmary, the infirmary might have been the jail, the town-hall might have been either, or both, or anything else, for anything that appeared to the contrary in the graces of their construction. Fact, fact, fact, everywhere in the material aspect of the town; fact, fact, fact, everywhere in the immaterial. The M'Choakumchild school was all fact, and the school of design was all fact, and the relations between master and man were all fact, and everything was fact between the lying-in hospital and the cemetery, and what you couldn't state in figures, or show to be purchaseable in the cheapest market and saleable in the dearest, was not, and never should be, world without end, Amen.
It's all right now
'Oh, my poor health!' returned Mrs. Gradgrind. 'The girl wanted to come to the school, and Mr. Gradgrind wanted girls to come to the school, and Louisa and Thomas both said that the girl wanted to come, and that Mr. Gradgrind wanted girls to come, and how was it possible to contradict them when such was the fact!'
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'Now I tell you what, Gradgrind!' said Mr. Bounderby. 'Turn this girl to the right about, and there's an end of it.'
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'Do it at once,' said Bounderby, 'has always been my motto from a child. When I thought I would run away from my egg-box and my grandmother, I did it at once. Do you the same. Do this at once!'
'Are you walking?' asked his friend. 'I have the father's address. Perhaps you would not mind walking to town with me?'
'Not the least in the world,' said Mr. Bounderby, 'as long as you do it at once!'
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So, Mr. Bounderby threw on his hat - he always threw it on, as expressing a man who had been far too busily employed in making himself, to acquire any fashion of wearing his hat - and with his hands in his pockets, sauntered out into the hall. 'I never wear gloves,' it was his custom to say. 'I didn't climb up the ladder in them. - Shouldn't be so high up, if I had.'
Being left to saunter in the hall a minute or two while Mr. Gradgrind went up-stairs for the address, he opened the door of the children's study and looked into that serene floor-clothed apartment, which, notwithstanding its book-cases and its cabinets and its variety of learned and philosophical appliances, had much of the genial aspect of a room devoted to hair-cutting. Louisa languidly leaned upon the window looking out, without looking at anything, while young Thomas stood sniffing revengefully at the fire. Adam Smith and Malthus, two younger Gradgrinds, were out at lecture in custody; and little Jane, after manufacturing a good deal of moist pipe-clay on her face with slate-pencil and tears, had fallen asleep over vulgar fractions.
'It's all right now, Louisa: it's all right, young Thomas,' said Mr. Bounderby; 'you won't do so any more. I'll answer for it's being all over with father. Well, Louisa, that's worth a kiss, isn't it?'
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'Now I tell you what, Gradgrind!' said Mr. Bounderby. 'Turn this girl to the right about, and there's an end of it.'
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'Do it at once,' said Bounderby, 'has always been my motto from a child. When I thought I would run away from my egg-box and my grandmother, I did it at once. Do you the same. Do this at once!'
'Are you walking?' asked his friend. 'I have the father's address. Perhaps you would not mind walking to town with me?'
'Not the least in the world,' said Mr. Bounderby, 'as long as you do it at once!'
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So, Mr. Bounderby threw on his hat - he always threw it on, as expressing a man who had been far too busily employed in making himself, to acquire any fashion of wearing his hat - and with his hands in his pockets, sauntered out into the hall. 'I never wear gloves,' it was his custom to say. 'I didn't climb up the ladder in them. - Shouldn't be so high up, if I had.'
Being left to saunter in the hall a minute or two while Mr. Gradgrind went up-stairs for the address, he opened the door of the children's study and looked into that serene floor-clothed apartment, which, notwithstanding its book-cases and its cabinets and its variety of learned and philosophical appliances, had much of the genial aspect of a room devoted to hair-cutting. Louisa languidly leaned upon the window looking out, without looking at anything, while young Thomas stood sniffing revengefully at the fire. Adam Smith and Malthus, two younger Gradgrinds, were out at lecture in custody; and little Jane, after manufacturing a good deal of moist pipe-clay on her face with slate-pencil and tears, had fallen asleep over vulgar fractions.
'It's all right now, Louisa: it's all right, young Thomas,' said Mr. Bounderby; 'you won't do so any more. I'll answer for it's being all over with father. Well, Louisa, that's worth a kiss, isn't it?'
I saw the girl myself
'Don't tell me that's the reason, because it can't be nothing of the sort,' said Mrs. Gradgrind. 'Go and be somethingological directly.' Mrs. Gradgrind was not a scientific character, and usually dismissed her children to their studies with this general injunction to choose their pursuit.
'Then comes the question; said the eminently practical father, with his eyes on the fire, 'in what has this vulgar curiosity its rise?'
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'I'll tell you in what. In idle imagination.'
'I hope not,' said the eminently practical; 'I confess, however, that the misgiving has crossed me on my way home.'
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'In idle imagination, Gradgrind,' repeated Bounderby. 'A very bad thing for anybody, but a cursed bad thing for a girl like Louisa. I should ask Mrs. Gradgrind's pardon for strong expressions, but that she knows very well I am not a refined character. Whoever expects refinement in me will be disappointed. I hadn't a refined bringing up.'
'Whether,' said Gradgrind, pondering with his hands in his pockets, and his cavernous eyes on the fire, 'whether any instructor or servant can have suggested anything? Whether Louisa or Thomas can have been reading anything? Whether, in spite of all precautions, any idle story-book can have got into the house? Because, in minds that have been practically formed by rule and line, from the cradle upwards, this is so curious, so incomprehensible.'
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'Stop a bit!' cried Bounderby, who all this time had been standing, as before, on the hearth, bursting at the very furniture of the room with explosive humility. 'You have one of those strollers' children in the school.'
'Cecilia Jupe, by name,' said Mr. Gradgrind, with something of a stricken look at his friend.
'Now, stop a bit!' cried Bounderby again. 'How did she come there?'
'Why, the fact is, I saw the girl myself, for the first time, only just now. She specially applied here at the house to be admitted, as not regularly belonging to our town, and - yes, you are right, Bounderby, you are right.'
'Now, stop a bit!' cried Bounderby, once more. 'Louisa saw her when she came?'
'Louisa certainly did see her, for she mentioned the application to me. But Louisa saw her, I have no doubt, in Mrs. Gradgrind's presence.'
'Pray, Mrs. Gradgrind,' said Bounderby, 'what passed?'
In truth, Mrs. Gradgrind's stock of facts in general was woefully defective; but Mr. Gradgrind in raising her to her high matrimonial position, had been influenced by two reasons. Firstly, she was most satisfactory as a question of figures; and, secondly, she had 'no nonsense' about her. By nonsense he meant fancy; and truly it is probable she was as free from any alloy of that nature, as any human being not arrived at the perfection of an absolute idiot, ever was.
The simple circumstance of being left alone with her husband and Mr. Bounderby, was sufficient to stun this admirable lady again without collision between herself and any other fact. So, she once more died away, and nobody minded her.
'Bounderby,' said Mr. Gradgrind, drawing a chair to the fireside, 'you are always so interested in my young people - particularly in Louisa - that I make no apology for saying to you, I am very much vexed by this discovery. I have systematically devoted myself (as you know) to the education of the reason of my family. The reason is (as you know) the only faculty to which education should be addressed. 'And yet, Bounderby, it would appear from this unexpected circumstance of to-day, though in itself a trifling one, as if something had crept into Thomas's and Louisa's minds which is - or rather, which is not - I don't know that I can express myself better than by saying - which has never been intended to be developed, and in which their reason has no part.'
'There certainly is no reason in looking with interest at a parcel of vagabonds,' returned Bounderby. 'When I was a vagabond myself, nobody looked with any interest at me; I know that.'
'Then comes the question; said the eminently practical father, with his eyes on the fire, 'in what has this vulgar curiosity its rise?'
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'I'll tell you in what. In idle imagination.'
'I hope not,' said the eminently practical; 'I confess, however, that the misgiving has crossed me on my way home.'
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'In idle imagination, Gradgrind,' repeated Bounderby. 'A very bad thing for anybody, but a cursed bad thing for a girl like Louisa. I should ask Mrs. Gradgrind's pardon for strong expressions, but that she knows very well I am not a refined character. Whoever expects refinement in me will be disappointed. I hadn't a refined bringing up.'
'Whether,' said Gradgrind, pondering with his hands in his pockets, and his cavernous eyes on the fire, 'whether any instructor or servant can have suggested anything? Whether Louisa or Thomas can have been reading anything? Whether, in spite of all precautions, any idle story-book can have got into the house? Because, in minds that have been practically formed by rule and line, from the cradle upwards, this is so curious, so incomprehensible.'
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'Stop a bit!' cried Bounderby, who all this time had been standing, as before, on the hearth, bursting at the very furniture of the room with explosive humility. 'You have one of those strollers' children in the school.'
'Cecilia Jupe, by name,' said Mr. Gradgrind, with something of a stricken look at his friend.
'Now, stop a bit!' cried Bounderby again. 'How did she come there?'
'Why, the fact is, I saw the girl myself, for the first time, only just now. She specially applied here at the house to be admitted, as not regularly belonging to our town, and - yes, you are right, Bounderby, you are right.'
'Now, stop a bit!' cried Bounderby, once more. 'Louisa saw her when she came?'
'Louisa certainly did see her, for she mentioned the application to me. But Louisa saw her, I have no doubt, in Mrs. Gradgrind's presence.'
'Pray, Mrs. Gradgrind,' said Bounderby, 'what passed?'
In truth, Mrs. Gradgrind's stock of facts in general was woefully defective; but Mr. Gradgrind in raising her to her high matrimonial position, had been influenced by two reasons. Firstly, she was most satisfactory as a question of figures; and, secondly, she had 'no nonsense' about her. By nonsense he meant fancy; and truly it is probable she was as free from any alloy of that nature, as any human being not arrived at the perfection of an absolute idiot, ever was.
The simple circumstance of being left alone with her husband and Mr. Bounderby, was sufficient to stun this admirable lady again without collision between herself and any other fact. So, she once more died away, and nobody minded her.
'Bounderby,' said Mr. Gradgrind, drawing a chair to the fireside, 'you are always so interested in my young people - particularly in Louisa - that I make no apology for saying to you, I am very much vexed by this discovery. I have systematically devoted myself (as you know) to the education of the reason of my family. The reason is (as you know) the only faculty to which education should be addressed. 'And yet, Bounderby, it would appear from this unexpected circumstance of to-day, though in itself a trifling one, as if something had crept into Thomas's and Louisa's minds which is - or rather, which is not - I don't know that I can express myself better than by saying - which has never been intended to be developed, and in which their reason has no part.'
'There certainly is no reason in looking with interest at a parcel of vagabonds,' returned Bounderby. 'When I was a vagabond myself, nobody looked with any interest at me; I know that.'
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Being heated when he arrived at this climax, Josiah Bounderby of Coketown stopped. He stopped just as his eminently practical friend, still accompanied by the two young culprits, entered the room. His eminently practical friend, on seeing him, stopped also, and gave Louisa a reproachful look that plainly said, 'Behold your Bounderby!'
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'Well!' blustered Mr. Bounderby, 'what's the matter? What is young Thomas in the dumps about?'
He spoke of young Thomas, but he looked at Louisa.
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'And, Mrs. Gradgrind,' said her husband in a lofty manner, 'I should as soon have expected to find my children reading poetry.'
'Dear me,' whimpered Mrs. Gradgrind. 'How can you, Louisa and Thomas! I wonder at you. I declare you're enough to make one regret ever having had a family at all. I have a great mind to say I wish I hadn't. Then what would you have done, I should like to know?'
Mr. Gradgrind did not seem favourably impressed by these cogent remarks. He frowned impatiently.
'As if, with my head in its present throbbing state, you couldn't go and look at the shells and minerals and things provided for you, instead of circuses!' said Mrs. Gradgrind. 'You know, as well as I do, no young people have circus masters, or keep circuses in cabinets, or attend lectures about circuses. What can you possibly want to know of circuses then? I am sure you have enough to do, if that's what you want. With my head in its present state, I couldn't remember the mere names of half the facts you have got to attend to.'
'That's the reason!' pouted Louisa.
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'Well!' blustered Mr. Bounderby, 'what's the matter? What is young Thomas in the dumps about?'
He spoke of young Thomas, but he looked at Louisa.
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'We were peeping at the circus,' muttered Louisa, haughtily, without lifting up her eyes, 'and father caught us.'
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'And, Mrs. Gradgrind,' said her husband in a lofty manner, 'I should as soon have expected to find my children reading poetry.'
'Dear me,' whimpered Mrs. Gradgrind. 'How can you, Louisa and Thomas! I wonder at you. I declare you're enough to make one regret ever having had a family at all. I have a great mind to say I wish I hadn't. Then what would you have done, I should like to know?'
Mr. Gradgrind did not seem favourably impressed by these cogent remarks. He frowned impatiently.
'As if, with my head in its present throbbing state, you couldn't go and look at the shells and minerals and things provided for you, instead of circuses!' said Mrs. Gradgrind. 'You know, as well as I do, no young people have circus masters, or keep circuses in cabinets, or attend lectures about circuses. What can you possibly want to know of circuses then? I am sure you have enough to do, if that's what you want. With my head in its present state, I couldn't remember the mere names of half the facts you have got to attend to.'
'That's the reason!' pouted Louisa.
2012年2月17日星期五
On the depot platform
As this woman sat looking from the car window away toward the distant mountain peaks, the young man thought he had never seen a more perfect profile; nor a countenance that expressed such a beautiful blending of wistful longing, of patient fortitude, and saintly resignation. It was the face of a Madonna,--but a Madonna after the crucifixion,--pathetic in its lonely sorrow, inspiring in its spiritual strength, and holy in its purity and freedom from earthly passions.
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She was near his mother's age; and looking at her--as he moved down the aisle--his mother's face, as he had known it before their last meeting, came to him with startling vividness. For an instant, he paused, moved to take the chair beside her; but the next two seats were vacant, and he had no excuse for intruding. Arranging his grips, he quickly seated himself next to the window; and again, with eager interest, turned toward the woman in the chair ahead. Involuntarily, he started with astonishment and pity.
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The woman--still gazing from the window at the distant mountain peaks, and seemingly unconscious of her surroundings--presented now, to the man's shocked and compassionate gaze, the other side of her face. It was hideously disfigured by a great scar that--covering the entire cheek and neck--distorted the corner of the mouth, drew down the lower lid of the eye, and twisted her features into an ugly caricature. Even the ear, half hidden under the soft, gray-threaded hair, had not escaped, but was deformed by the same dreadful agent that had wrought such ruin to one of the loveliest countenances the man had ever looked upon.
When the train stopped at Fairlands, and the passengers crowded into the aisle to make their way out, of the characters belonging to my story, the woman with the man and his daughter went first. Following them, a half car-length of people between, went the woman with the disfigured face.
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On the depot platform, as they moved toward the street, the young man still held his place near the woman who had so awakened his pitying interest. The three Overland passengers were met by a heavy-faced thick-necked man who escorted them to a luxurious touring car.
The invalid and his daughter had entered the automobile when their escort, in turning toward the other member of the party, saw the woman with the disfigured face--who was now quite near. Instantly, he paused. And there was a smile of recognition on his somewhat coarse features as, lifting his hat, he bowed with--the young man fancied--condescending politeness. The woman standing by his side with her hand upon the door of the automobile, seeing her companion saluting some one, turned--and the next moment, the two women, whose features seemed so like--yet so unlike--were face to face.
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She was near his mother's age; and looking at her--as he moved down the aisle--his mother's face, as he had known it before their last meeting, came to him with startling vividness. For an instant, he paused, moved to take the chair beside her; but the next two seats were vacant, and he had no excuse for intruding. Arranging his grips, he quickly seated himself next to the window; and again, with eager interest, turned toward the woman in the chair ahead. Involuntarily, he started with astonishment and pity.
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The woman--still gazing from the window at the distant mountain peaks, and seemingly unconscious of her surroundings--presented now, to the man's shocked and compassionate gaze, the other side of her face. It was hideously disfigured by a great scar that--covering the entire cheek and neck--distorted the corner of the mouth, drew down the lower lid of the eye, and twisted her features into an ugly caricature. Even the ear, half hidden under the soft, gray-threaded hair, had not escaped, but was deformed by the same dreadful agent that had wrought such ruin to one of the loveliest countenances the man had ever looked upon.
When the train stopped at Fairlands, and the passengers crowded into the aisle to make their way out, of the characters belonging to my story, the woman with the man and his daughter went first. Following them, a half car-length of people between, went the woman with the disfigured face.
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On the depot platform, as they moved toward the street, the young man still held his place near the woman who had so awakened his pitying interest. The three Overland passengers were met by a heavy-faced thick-necked man who escorted them to a luxurious touring car.
The invalid and his daughter had entered the automobile when their escort, in turning toward the other member of the party, saw the woman with the disfigured face--who was now quite near. Instantly, he paused. And there was a smile of recognition on his somewhat coarse features as, lifting his hat, he bowed with--the young man fancied--condescending politeness. The woman standing by his side with her hand upon the door of the automobile, seeing her companion saluting some one, turned--and the next moment, the two women, whose features seemed so like--yet so unlike--were face to face.
It was only for an instant
As the young man passed and repassed them, where they stood under the big pepper tree that shades the depot, the man--in his harsh, throaty whisper, between spasms of coughing--was cursing the train service, the country, the weather; and, apparently, whatever else he could think of as being worthy or unworthy his impotent ill-temper.
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The shadowy suggestion of womanhood--glancing toward the young man--was saying, with affected giggles, "O papa, don't! Oh isn't it perfectly lovely! O papa, don't! Do hush! What will people think?" This last variation of his daughter's plaint must have given the man some satisfaction, at least, for it furnished him another target for his pointless shafts; and he fairly outdid himself in politely damning whoever might presume to think anything at all of him; with the net result that two Mexicans, who were loafing near enough to hear, grinned with admiring amusement. The woman stood a little apart from the others. Coldly indifferent alike to the man's cursing and coughing and to the daughter's ejaculations, she appeared to be looking at the mountains. But the young man fancied that, once or twice, as he faced about at the end of his beat, her eyes were turned in his direction.
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When the Fairlands train came in, the three found seats conveniently turned, near the forward end of the car. The young man, in passing, glanced down; and the woman, who had taken the chair next to the aisle, looked up full into his face.
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Again, as their eyes met, the man felt--as when they had stood so close together on the platform of the observation car--that she did not shrink from him. It was only for an instant. Then, glancing about for a seat, he saw another face--a face, in its outlines, so like the one into which he had just looked, and yet so different--so far removed in its expression and meaning--that it fixed his attention instantly--compelling his interest.
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The shadowy suggestion of womanhood--glancing toward the young man--was saying, with affected giggles, "O papa, don't! Oh isn't it perfectly lovely! O papa, don't! Do hush! What will people think?" This last variation of his daughter's plaint must have given the man some satisfaction, at least, for it furnished him another target for his pointless shafts; and he fairly outdid himself in politely damning whoever might presume to think anything at all of him; with the net result that two Mexicans, who were loafing near enough to hear, grinned with admiring amusement. The woman stood a little apart from the others. Coldly indifferent alike to the man's cursing and coughing and to the daughter's ejaculations, she appeared to be looking at the mountains. But the young man fancied that, once or twice, as he faced about at the end of his beat, her eyes were turned in his direction.
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When the Fairlands train came in, the three found seats conveniently turned, near the forward end of the car. The young man, in passing, glanced down; and the woman, who had taken the chair next to the aisle, looked up full into his face.
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Again, as their eyes met, the man felt--as when they had stood so close together on the platform of the observation car--that she did not shrink from him. It was only for an instant. Then, glancing about for a seat, he saw another face--a face, in its outlines, so like the one into which he had just looked, and yet so different--so far removed in its expression and meaning--that it fixed his attention instantly--compelling his interest.
A difference of only a few feet in elevation seems
Passengers on the Golden State Limited--as perhaps you know--do not go direct to Fairlands. They change at Fairlands Junction. The little city, itself, is set in the lap of the hills that form the southern side of the valley, some three miles from the main line. It is as though this particular "Queen" withdrew from the great highway traveled by the vulgar herd--in the proud aloofness of her superior clay, sufficient unto herself. The soil out of which Fairlands is made is much richer, it is said, than the common dirt of her sister cities less than fifteen miles distant. A difference of only a few feet in elevation seems, strangely, to give her a much more rarefied air. Her proudest boast is that she has a larger number of millionaires in proportion to her population than any other city in the land.
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It was these peculiar and well-known advantages of Fairlands that led the young man of my story to select it as the starting point of his worthy ambition. And Fairlands is a good place for one so richly endowed with an inheritance that cannot be expressed in dollars to try his strength. Given such a community, amid such surroundings, with a man like the young man of my story, and something may be depended upon to happen.
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While the travelers from the East, bound for Fairlands, were waiting at the Junction for the local train that would take them through the orange groves to their journey's end, the young man noticed the woman of the observation car platform with her two companions. And now, as he paced to and fro, enjoying the exercise after the days of confinement in the Pullman, he observed them with stimulated interest--they, too, were going to Fairlands.
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The man of the party, though certainly not old in years, was frightfully aged by dissipation and disease. The gross, sensual mouth with its loose-hanging lips; the blotched and clammy skin; the pale, watery eyes with their inflamed rims and flabby pouches; the sunken chest, skinny neck and limbs; and the thin rasping voice--all cried aloud the shame of a misspent life. It was as clearly evident that he was a man of wealth and, in the eyes of the world, of an enviable social rank.
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It was these peculiar and well-known advantages of Fairlands that led the young man of my story to select it as the starting point of his worthy ambition. And Fairlands is a good place for one so richly endowed with an inheritance that cannot be expressed in dollars to try his strength. Given such a community, amid such surroundings, with a man like the young man of my story, and something may be depended upon to happen.
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While the travelers from the East, bound for Fairlands, were waiting at the Junction for the local train that would take them through the orange groves to their journey's end, the young man noticed the woman of the observation car platform with her two companions. And now, as he paced to and fro, enjoying the exercise after the days of confinement in the Pullman, he observed them with stimulated interest--they, too, were going to Fairlands.
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The man of the party, though certainly not old in years, was frightfully aged by dissipation and disease. The gross, sensual mouth with its loose-hanging lips; the blotched and clammy skin; the pale, watery eyes with their inflamed rims and flabby pouches; the sunken chest, skinny neck and limbs; and the thin rasping voice--all cried aloud the shame of a misspent life. It was as clearly evident that he was a man of wealth and, in the eyes of the world, of an enviable social rank.
It was January
In the Pullman, there was a stir of awakening interest The travel-wearied passengers, laying aside books and magazines and cards, renewed conversations that, in the last monotonous hours of the desert part of the journey, had lagged painfully. Throughout the train, there was an air of eager expectancy; a bustling movement of preparation. The woman of the observation car platform had disappeared into her stateroom. The young man gathered his things together in readiness to leave the train at the next stop.
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In the flying pictures framed by the windows, the dairy pastures and meadows were being replaced by small vineyards and orchards; the canyon wall, on the northern side, became higher and steeper, shutting out the mountains in the distance and showing only a fringe of trees on the sharp rim; while against the gray and yellow and brown and green of the chaparral on the steep, untilled bluffs, shone the silvery softness of the olive trees that border the arroyo at their feet.
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With a long, triumphant shriek, the flying overland train--from the lands of ice and snow--from barren deserts and lonely mountains--rushed from the narrow mouth of the canyon, and swept out into the beautiful San Bernardino Valley where the travelers were greeted by wide, green miles of orange and lemon and walnut and olive groves--by many acres of gardens and vineyards and orchards. Amid these groves and gardens, the towns and cities are set; their streets and buildings half hidden in wildernesses of eucalyptus and peppers and palms; while--towering above the loveliness of the valley and visible now from the sweeping lines of their foothills to the gleaming white of their lonely peaks--rises, in blue-veiled, cloud-flecked steeps and purple shaded canyons, the beauty and grandeur of the mountains.
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It was January. To those who had so recently left the winter lands, the Southern California scene--so richly colored with its many shades of living green, so warm in its golden sunlight--seemed a dream of fairyland. It was as though that break in the mountain wall had ushered them suddenly into another world--a world, strange, indeed, to eyes accustomed to snow and ice and naked trees and leaden clouds.
Among the many little cities half concealed in the luxurious, semi-tropical verdure of the wide valley at the foot of the mountains, Fairlands--if you ask a citizen of that well-known mecca of the tourist--is easily the Queen. As for that! all our Southern California cities are set in wildernesses of beauty; all are in wide valleys; all are at the foot of the mountains; all are meccas for tourists; each one--if you ask a citizen--is the Queen. If you, perchance should question this fact--write for our advertising literature.
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In the flying pictures framed by the windows, the dairy pastures and meadows were being replaced by small vineyards and orchards; the canyon wall, on the northern side, became higher and steeper, shutting out the mountains in the distance and showing only a fringe of trees on the sharp rim; while against the gray and yellow and brown and green of the chaparral on the steep, untilled bluffs, shone the silvery softness of the olive trees that border the arroyo at their feet.
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With a long, triumphant shriek, the flying overland train--from the lands of ice and snow--from barren deserts and lonely mountains--rushed from the narrow mouth of the canyon, and swept out into the beautiful San Bernardino Valley where the travelers were greeted by wide, green miles of orange and lemon and walnut and olive groves--by many acres of gardens and vineyards and orchards. Amid these groves and gardens, the towns and cities are set; their streets and buildings half hidden in wildernesses of eucalyptus and peppers and palms; while--towering above the loveliness of the valley and visible now from the sweeping lines of their foothills to the gleaming white of their lonely peaks--rises, in blue-veiled, cloud-flecked steeps and purple shaded canyons, the beauty and grandeur of the mountains.
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It was January. To those who had so recently left the winter lands, the Southern California scene--so richly colored with its many shades of living green, so warm in its golden sunlight--seemed a dream of fairyland. It was as though that break in the mountain wall had ushered them suddenly into another world--a world, strange, indeed, to eyes accustomed to snow and ice and naked trees and leaden clouds.
Among the many little cities half concealed in the luxurious, semi-tropical verdure of the wide valley at the foot of the mountains, Fairlands--if you ask a citizen of that well-known mecca of the tourist--is easily the Queen. As for that! all our Southern California cities are set in wildernesses of beauty; all are in wide valleys; all are at the foot of the mountains; all are meccas for tourists; each one--if you ask a citizen--is the Queen. If you, perchance should question this fact--write for our advertising literature.
2012年2月15日星期三
I will come for a chat before dinner
"Oh! Emily, I'm sure you wanted very much to go to the ball, and you just now said that you enjoyed yourself exceedingly," said Alice gravely.
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"I didn't mean that you silly child, returned Emily, but I am intruding upon school hours I fear, so if you will allow me Miss Leicester I will come for a chat before dinner."
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Isabel bowed assent and Emily retired, rather annoyed that her advances had not met with a warmer reception. Shortly after Emily's departure, a tall and very elegant looking girl of about twenty entered the room, and bowing condescendingly to Isabel, said, "have the goodness to try these songs Miss Leicester, I wish to know if there are any pretty ones among them, I would not trouble you only I am so excessively tired" she added, taking the most comfortable seat the room afforded; this was done in the most easy manner possible, precluding of course the idea that it was by design. Miss Arlington upon entering any room, immediately perceived the nicest place, and having seen, at once took possession with an easy indifference, as if totally unconscious that she was monopolizing the best place. Isabel complied with her request, tho' not best pleased with the interruption.
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"You sing very nicely Miss Leicester," Miss Arlington said patronizingly.
Isabel's lip curled contemptuously, she presumed so when the crowded room had been hushed to perfect silence whenever she approached the piano, and when she ceased singing, the murmured praise and applause on all sides had sent the hot blood to her cheeks, and this not once or twice, but scores of times--she needed not to be told that she sang nicely.
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"I didn't mean that you silly child, returned Emily, but I am intruding upon school hours I fear, so if you will allow me Miss Leicester I will come for a chat before dinner."
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Isabel bowed assent and Emily retired, rather annoyed that her advances had not met with a warmer reception. Shortly after Emily's departure, a tall and very elegant looking girl of about twenty entered the room, and bowing condescendingly to Isabel, said, "have the goodness to try these songs Miss Leicester, I wish to know if there are any pretty ones among them, I would not trouble you only I am so excessively tired" she added, taking the most comfortable seat the room afforded; this was done in the most easy manner possible, precluding of course the idea that it was by design. Miss Arlington upon entering any room, immediately perceived the nicest place, and having seen, at once took possession with an easy indifference, as if totally unconscious that she was monopolizing the best place. Isabel complied with her request, tho' not best pleased with the interruption.
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"You sing very nicely Miss Leicester," Miss Arlington said patronizingly.
Isabel's lip curled contemptuously, she presumed so when the crowded room had been hushed to perfect silence whenever she approached the piano, and when she ceased singing, the murmured praise and applause on all sides had sent the hot blood to her cheeks, and this not once or twice, but scores of times--she needed not to be told that she sang nicely.
As Isabel entered the room
Amy had scarcely gone, when Mrs. Arlington entered. She was tall and stately, rather cold and haughty, and very dignified and patronizing in her manner. She hoped Miss Leicester had been made comfortable, and was sure that she would like the children. She then informed her that the school hours were from nine until four, with an hour for dinner, then she would have to take them for a walk, after that her time was her own.
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She would take her meals with the children, but she would be happy to have her come into the drawing-room occasionally in the evening. She said that her own time was so much occupied with her elder daughters, that she was forced to leave the children entirely to the governess, but, that as Mrs. Arnold had so strongly recommended her she felt sure she should be satisfied, then bidding Miss Leicester a polite good morning, she swept majestically from the room.
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Poor Isabel, she had not expected quite so much dignity, and was excessively annoyed. "Take the children for walks," that was a thing she had not thought of, and she did not relish the idea and as to going into the drawing-room, she could very well dispense with that. She was not aware that Mrs. Arlington intended her accomplished young governess to help to amuse her guests. Excessively annoyed, Isabel repaired to her own room to calm her ruffled feelings.
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At nine o'clock she went to the school-room and found her pupils there already, also a very pretty girl of about seventeen, whom they were coaxing to tell them about the ball. As Isabel entered the room, Amy exclaimed, "Miss Leicester this is Emily!" Then Emily laughed merrily, and held out her hand saying, "I hope we shall be good friends Miss Leicester, I'm sorry we were out last night."
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She would take her meals with the children, but she would be happy to have her come into the drawing-room occasionally in the evening. She said that her own time was so much occupied with her elder daughters, that she was forced to leave the children entirely to the governess, but, that as Mrs. Arnold had so strongly recommended her she felt sure she should be satisfied, then bidding Miss Leicester a polite good morning, she swept majestically from the room.
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Poor Isabel, she had not expected quite so much dignity, and was excessively annoyed. "Take the children for walks," that was a thing she had not thought of, and she did not relish the idea and as to going into the drawing-room, she could very well dispense with that. She was not aware that Mrs. Arlington intended her accomplished young governess to help to amuse her guests. Excessively annoyed, Isabel repaired to her own room to calm her ruffled feelings.
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At nine o'clock she went to the school-room and found her pupils there already, also a very pretty girl of about seventeen, whom they were coaxing to tell them about the ball. As Isabel entered the room, Amy exclaimed, "Miss Leicester this is Emily!" Then Emily laughed merrily, and held out her hand saying, "I hope we shall be good friends Miss Leicester, I'm sorry we were out last night."
After dressing and arranging some of her things
When she awoke next morning it seemed very strange to be where she had not the least idea what any of the family were like. After dressing and arranging some of her things, she sat down to contemplate her situation, which she found anything but pleasant, so she determined to descend to the school-room.
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The door was open, and as she approached she overheard little Amy saying "she is the prettiest lady I ever saw, only she looks so pale and sad." Isabel found three little girls in the room, of whom Amy was the youngest. Amy greeted her in the same cordial manner she had done on the preceding evening, the other two rose saying "good morning Miss Leicester," but when she stooped to kiss them, Alice sulkily put up her face, and Rose laughed. "Fancy, Miss Manning kissing us" she whispered to her sister. "Hush!" returned Alice, "she will hear."
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Isabel spoke kindly to them, but Alice only returned unwilling, and Rose pert answers, so the breakfast was a dull unpleasant affair, and Isabel perceived they regarded the governess in the light of an enemy; even little Amy became shy and uneasy.
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After breakfast Rose informed her that they always had half an hour before school for a run out of doors. As they were departing little Amy ran back, and coming close up to Isabel whispered "don't cry Miss Leicester, I love you, indeed I do," for Amy had noticed the tears that would come in spite of her efforts to repress them. Isabel drew the child to her, and kissing her pretty upturned face, told her to go with the others.
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The door was open, and as she approached she overheard little Amy saying "she is the prettiest lady I ever saw, only she looks so pale and sad." Isabel found three little girls in the room, of whom Amy was the youngest. Amy greeted her in the same cordial manner she had done on the preceding evening, the other two rose saying "good morning Miss Leicester," but when she stooped to kiss them, Alice sulkily put up her face, and Rose laughed. "Fancy, Miss Manning kissing us" she whispered to her sister. "Hush!" returned Alice, "she will hear."
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Isabel spoke kindly to them, but Alice only returned unwilling, and Rose pert answers, so the breakfast was a dull unpleasant affair, and Isabel perceived they regarded the governess in the light of an enemy; even little Amy became shy and uneasy.
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After breakfast Rose informed her that they always had half an hour before school for a run out of doors. As they were departing little Amy ran back, and coming close up to Isabel whispered "don't cry Miss Leicester, I love you, indeed I do," for Amy had noticed the tears that would come in spite of her efforts to repress them. Isabel drew the child to her, and kissing her pretty upturned face, told her to go with the others.
When Norris had left the room
It was a long drive of twelve miles to Elm Grove, but the horses went at a great speed, and in less than an hour they arrived at their destination. As they drew up at the door, it was opened by a footman, and a woman who seemed to be an upper servant met her in the hall, and conducted her to her room.
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"I suppose you would like some tea Miss," she said "I will order it while you are taking off your things, and then I will show you the school-room. Mrs. Arlington and the young ladies are dressing for a ball, so they cannot see you to-night."
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When Norris had left the room, Isabel sat down with a sigh, and looked about to see what kind of accommodation she was to have. It was a nice sized room, with a bay window having an eastern aspect, at which the wind was now howling with great violence. It was neatly, but plainly furnished, the fire had burnt low, and the room was cold. She took off her things as quickly as possible, and sincerely hoped that the school-room would be more comfortable.
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Norris soon returned, and Isabel desiring her to have more fuel put upon the fire descended to the school-room, which she found very bright and pleasant looking, the large fire and lamp making it look quite attractive.
The tea was on the table, and Norris after saying "if you want anything Miss, please ring for Susan," left the room. Isabel was very glad to have some refreshment after her cold drive, and when she rang to have the things removed, the bell was answered by a neat, pleasant looking girl, who had such a sunny face that it did one good to look at her, and presently a sweet little girl of about seven years old came running into the room, and going up to Isabel, said "you are our new governess are you not. I think I shall like you very much, but I can't stay now, for Eliza is waiting to put me to bed, but I did so want to see you to-night. Good night!" and throwing her arms round Isabel's neck, she gave her a hearty kiss, and disappeared as quickly as she came. When Isabel returned to her room she had no cause to complain of the fire which was piled to the top of the grate.
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"I suppose you would like some tea Miss," she said "I will order it while you are taking off your things, and then I will show you the school-room. Mrs. Arlington and the young ladies are dressing for a ball, so they cannot see you to-night."
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When Norris had left the room, Isabel sat down with a sigh, and looked about to see what kind of accommodation she was to have. It was a nice sized room, with a bay window having an eastern aspect, at which the wind was now howling with great violence. It was neatly, but plainly furnished, the fire had burnt low, and the room was cold. She took off her things as quickly as possible, and sincerely hoped that the school-room would be more comfortable.
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Norris soon returned, and Isabel desiring her to have more fuel put upon the fire descended to the school-room, which she found very bright and pleasant looking, the large fire and lamp making it look quite attractive.
The tea was on the table, and Norris after saying "if you want anything Miss, please ring for Susan," left the room. Isabel was very glad to have some refreshment after her cold drive, and when she rang to have the things removed, the bell was answered by a neat, pleasant looking girl, who had such a sunny face that it did one good to look at her, and presently a sweet little girl of about seven years old came running into the room, and going up to Isabel, said "you are our new governess are you not. I think I shall like you very much, but I can't stay now, for Eliza is waiting to put me to bed, but I did so want to see you to-night. Good night!" and throwing her arms round Isabel's neck, she gave her a hearty kiss, and disappeared as quickly as she came. When Isabel returned to her room she had no cause to complain of the fire which was piled to the top of the grate.
2012年2月13日星期一
But neither of them saw the cat
Then the door began to move. Will waited till the man was framed in the open doorway, and then exploded up out of the dark and crashed into the intruder's belly.
But neither of them saw the cat.
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As the man had reached the top step, Moxie had come silently out of the bedroom and stood with raised tail just behind the man's legs, ready to rub herself against them. The man, who was trained and fit and hard, could have dealt with Will, but the cat was in the way, and as the man tried to move back, he tripped over her. With a sharp gasp he fell backward down the stairs and crashed his head brutally against the hall table.
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Will heard a hideous crack, and didn't stop to wonder about it. Clutching the writing case, he swung himself down the banister, leaping over the man's body that lay twitching and crumpled at the foot of the flight, seized the tattered tote bag from the table, and was out of the front door and away before the other man could do more than come out of the living room and stare.
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Even in his fear and haste Will wondered why the other man didn't shout after him, or chase him. They'd be after him soon, though, with their cars and their cell phones. The only thing to do was run.
He saw the milkman turning into the close, the lights of his electric cart pallid in the dawn glimmer that was already filling the sky. Will jumped over the fence into the next-door garden, down the passage beside the house, over the next garden wall, across a dew-wet lawn, through the hedge, and into the tangle of shrubs and trees between the housing estate and the main road. There he crawled under a bush and lay panting and trembling. It was too early to be out on the road: wait till later, when the rush hour started.
But neither of them saw the cat.
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As the man had reached the top step, Moxie had come silently out of the bedroom and stood with raised tail just behind the man's legs, ready to rub herself against them. The man, who was trained and fit and hard, could have dealt with Will, but the cat was in the way, and as the man tried to move back, he tripped over her. With a sharp gasp he fell backward down the stairs and crashed his head brutally against the hall table.
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Will heard a hideous crack, and didn't stop to wonder about it. Clutching the writing case, he swung himself down the banister, leaping over the man's body that lay twitching and crumpled at the foot of the flight, seized the tattered tote bag from the table, and was out of the front door and away before the other man could do more than come out of the living room and stare.
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Even in his fear and haste Will wondered why the other man didn't shout after him, or chase him. They'd be after him soon, though, with their cars and their cell phones. The only thing to do was run.
He saw the milkman turning into the close, the lights of his electric cart pallid in the dawn glimmer that was already filling the sky. Will jumped over the fence into the next-door garden, down the passage beside the house, over the next garden wall, across a dew-wet lawn, through the hedge, and into the tangle of shrubs and trees between the housing estate and the main road. There he crawled under a bush and lay panting and trembling. It was too early to be out on the road: wait till later, when the rush hour started.
He felt for it delicately
He lifted Moxie out of the way and softly hushed her sleepy protest. Then he swung his legs over the side of the bed and put on his shoes, straining every nerve to hear the sounds from downstairs. They were very quiet sounds: a chair being lifted and replaced, a short whisper, the creak of a floorboard.
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Moving more silently than the men were, he left his bedroom and tiptoed to the spare room at the top of the stairs. It wasn't quite pitch-dark, and in the ghostly gray predawn light he could see the old treadle sewing machine. He'd been through the room thoroughly only hours before, but he'd forgotten the compartment at the side of the sewing machine, where all the patterns and bobbins were kept.
He felt for it delicately, listening all the while. The men were moving about downstairs, and Will could see a dim flicker of light that might have been a flashlight at the edge of the door.
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Then he found the catch of the compartment and clicked it open, and there, just as he'd known it would be, was the leather writing case.
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And now what could he do? He crouched in the dimness, heart pounding, listening hard.
The two men were in the hall downstairs. He heard one of them say quietly, "Come on. I can hear the milkman down the road."
"It's not here, though," said the other voice. "We'll have to look upstairs."
"Go on, then. Don't hang about."
Will braced himself as he heard the quiet creak of the top step. The man was making no noise at all, but he couldn't help the creak if he wasn't expecting it. Then there was a pause. A very thin beam of flashlight swept along the floor outside. Will saw it through the crack.
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Moving more silently than the men were, he left his bedroom and tiptoed to the spare room at the top of the stairs. It wasn't quite pitch-dark, and in the ghostly gray predawn light he could see the old treadle sewing machine. He'd been through the room thoroughly only hours before, but he'd forgotten the compartment at the side of the sewing machine, where all the patterns and bobbins were kept.
He felt for it delicately, listening all the while. The men were moving about downstairs, and Will could see a dim flicker of light that might have been a flashlight at the edge of the door.
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Then he found the catch of the compartment and clicked it open, and there, just as he'd known it would be, was the leather writing case.
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And now what could he do? He crouched in the dimness, heart pounding, listening hard.
The two men were in the hall downstairs. He heard one of them say quietly, "Come on. I can hear the milkman down the road."
"It's not here, though," said the other voice. "We'll have to look upstairs."
"Go on, then. Don't hang about."
Will braced himself as he heard the quiet creak of the top step. The man was making no noise at all, but he couldn't help the creak if he wasn't expecting it. Then there was a pause. A very thin beam of flashlight swept along the floor outside. Will saw it through the crack.
As he was finishing his meal
Holding Moxie against his chest, he unlocked the door and went in quickly. Then he listened very carefully before putting her down. There was nothing to hear; the house was empty.
He opened a tin for Moxie and left her to eat in the kitchen. How long before the men came back? There was no way of telling, so he'd better move quickly. He went upstairs and began to search.
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He was looking for a battered green leather writing case. There are a surprising number of places to hide something that size even in any ordinary modern house; you don't need secret panels and extensive cellars in order to make something hard to find. Will searched his mother's bedroom first, ashamed to be looking through the drawers where she kept her underclothes, and then he worked systematically through the rest of the rooms upstairs, even his own. Moxie came to see what he was doing and sat and cleaned herself nearby, for company.
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But he didn't find it.
By that time it was dark, and he was hungry. He made himself baked beans on toast and sat at the kitchen table wondering about the best order to look through the downstairs rooms.
As he was finishing his meal, the phone rang.
He sat absolutely still, his heart thumping. He counted: twenty-six rings, and then it stopped. He put his plate in the sink and started to search again.
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Four hours later he still hadn't found the green leather case. It was half past one, and he was exhausted. He lay on his bed fully clothed and fell asleep at once, his dreams tense and crowded, his mother's unhappy, frightened face always there just out of reach.
And almost at once, it seemed (though he'd been asleep for nearly three hours), he woke up knowing two things simultaneously.
First, he knew where the case was. And second, he knew that the men were downstairs, opening the kitchen door.
He opened a tin for Moxie and left her to eat in the kitchen. How long before the men came back? There was no way of telling, so he'd better move quickly. He went upstairs and began to search.
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He was looking for a battered green leather writing case. There are a surprising number of places to hide something that size even in any ordinary modern house; you don't need secret panels and extensive cellars in order to make something hard to find. Will searched his mother's bedroom first, ashamed to be looking through the drawers where she kept her underclothes, and then he worked systematically through the rest of the rooms upstairs, even his own. Moxie came to see what he was doing and sat and cleaned herself nearby, for company.
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But he didn't find it.
By that time it was dark, and he was hungry. He made himself baked beans on toast and sat at the kitchen table wondering about the best order to look through the downstairs rooms.
As he was finishing his meal, the phone rang.
He sat absolutely still, his heart thumping. He counted: twenty-six rings, and then it stopped. He put his plate in the sink and started to search again.
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Four hours later he still hadn't found the green leather case. It was half past one, and he was exhausted. He lay on his bed fully clothed and fell asleep at once, his dreams tense and crowded, his mother's unhappy, frightened face always there just out of reach.
And almost at once, it seemed (though he'd been asleep for nearly three hours), he woke up knowing two things simultaneously.
First, he knew where the case was. And second, he knew that the men were downstairs, opening the kitchen door.
2012年2月10日星期五
About how far are we from the city
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Just do it
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At the last moment he said nothing
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2012年2月9日星期四
This was an unfulfilled hope
This was an unfulfilled hope. The few beasts that came their way were always seen first by the boy. After an hour of this, Jason was so irritated that he blasted an evil-looking thorn plant out of existence. He hoped that Grif wouldn't look too closely at it.
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Of course the boy did. "That plant wasn't close. It is stupid to waste good ammunition on a plant," Grif said. There was no real trouble during the day. Jason ended by being bored, though soaked by the frequent rainstorms. If Grif was capable of carrying on a conversation, he didn't show it. All Jason's gambits failed. The following day went the same way. On the third day, Brucco appeared and looked Jason carefully up and down.
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"I don't like to say it, but I suppose you are as ready to leave now as you ever will be. Change the virus filter noseplugs every day. Always check boots for tears and metalcloth suiting for rips. Medikit supplies renewed once a week." "And wipe my nose and wear my galoshes. Anything else?" Jason asked. Brucco started to say something, then changed his mind. "Nothing that you shouldn't know well by now. Keep alert. And ... good luck." He followed up the words with a crushing handshake that was totally unexpected. As soon as the numbness left Jason's hand, he and Grif went out through the large entrance lock.
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"I don't like to say it, but I suppose you are as ready to leave now as you ever will be. Change the virus filter noseplugs every day. Always check boots for tears and metalcloth suiting for rips. Medikit supplies renewed once a week." "And wipe my nose and wear my galoshes. Anything else?" Jason asked. Brucco started to say something, then changed his mind. "Nothing that you shouldn't know well by now. Keep alert. And ... good luck." He followed up the words with a crushing handshake that was totally unexpected. As soon as the numbness left Jason's hand, he and Grif went out through the large entrance lock.
He will stay with you
There was one bit of ceremony attendant with the graduation. When Jason came into his office in the morning, Brucco slid a heavy gun clip across the table. "These are live bullets," he said. "I'm sure you'll be needing them. After this your gun will always be loaded." They came up to a heavy air lock, the only locked door Jason had seen in the center.
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While Brucco unlocked it and threw the bolts, a sober-faced eight-year-old with a bandaged leg limped up. "This is Grif," Brucco said. "He will stay with you, wherever you go, from now on." "My personal bodyguard?" Jason asked, looking down at the stocky child who barely reached his waist. "You might call him that." Brucco swung the door open. "Grif tangled with a sawbird, so he won't be able to do any real work for a while. You yourself admitted that you will never be able to equal a Pyrran, so you should be glad of a little protection." "Always a kind word, that's you, Brucco," Jason said. He bent over and shook hands with the boy. Even the eight-year-olds had a bone-crushing grip. The two of them entered the lock and Brucco swung the inner door shut behind them. As soon as it was sealed the outer door opened automatically.
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It was only partly open when Grif's gun blasted twice. Then they stepped out onto the surface of Pyrrus, over the smoking body of one of its animals. Very symbolic, Jason thought. He was also bothered by the realization that he hadn't remembered to look for something coming in. Then, too, he couldn't even identify the beast from its charred remains. He glanced around, hoping he would be able to fire first himself, next time.
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While Brucco unlocked it and threw the bolts, a sober-faced eight-year-old with a bandaged leg limped up. "This is Grif," Brucco said. "He will stay with you, wherever you go, from now on." "My personal bodyguard?" Jason asked, looking down at the stocky child who barely reached his waist. "You might call him that." Brucco swung the door open. "Grif tangled with a sawbird, so he won't be able to do any real work for a while. You yourself admitted that you will never be able to equal a Pyrran, so you should be glad of a little protection." "Always a kind word, that's you, Brucco," Jason said. He bent over and shook hands with the boy. Even the eight-year-olds had a bone-crushing grip. The two of them entered the lock and Brucco swung the inner door shut behind them. As soon as it was sealed the outer door opened automatically.
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It was only partly open when Grif's gun blasted twice. Then they stepped out onto the surface of Pyrrus, over the smoking body of one of its animals. Very symbolic, Jason thought. He was also bothered by the realization that he hadn't remembered to look for something coming in. Then, too, he couldn't even identify the beast from its charred remains. He glanced around, hoping he would be able to fire first himself, next time.
Is that right?
I admit that. We're not talking about that now. The question is--will I improve with more training, or have I reached a peak of my own development now?" Brucco sweated. "With the passage of time there will be improvement of course--" "Sly devil!" Jason waggled a finger at him. "Yes or no, now.
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Will I improve now by more training now?" "No," Brucco said, and still looked troubled. Jason sized him up like a poker hand. "Now let's think about that. I won't improve--yet I'm still stuck here. That's no accident. So you must have been ordered to keep me here. And from what I have seen of this planet, admittedly very little, I would say that Kerk ordered you to keep me here. Is that right?" "He was only doing it for your own sake," Brucco explained, "trying to keep you alive." "The truth is out," Jason said, "so let us now forget about it. I didn't come here to shoot robots with your offspring. So please show me the street door. Or is there a graduating ceremony first?
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Speeches, handing out school pins, sabers overhead--" "Nothing like that," Brucco snapped. "I don't see how a grown man like you can talk such nonsense all the time. There is none of that, of course. Only some final work in the partial survival chamber. That is a compound that connects with the outside--really is a part of the outside--except the most violent life forms are excluded. And even some of those manage to find their way in once in a while." "When do I go?" Jason shot the question. "Tomorrow morning. Get a good night's sleep first. You'll need it."
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Will I improve now by more training now?" "No," Brucco said, and still looked troubled. Jason sized him up like a poker hand. "Now let's think about that. I won't improve--yet I'm still stuck here. That's no accident. So you must have been ordered to keep me here. And from what I have seen of this planet, admittedly very little, I would say that Kerk ordered you to keep me here. Is that right?" "He was only doing it for your own sake," Brucco explained, "trying to keep you alive." "The truth is out," Jason said, "so let us now forget about it. I didn't come here to shoot robots with your offspring. So please show me the street door. Or is there a graduating ceremony first?
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Speeches, handing out school pins, sabers overhead--" "Nothing like that," Brucco snapped. "I don't see how a grown man like you can talk such nonsense all the time. There is none of that, of course. Only some final work in the partial survival chamber. That is a compound that connects with the outside--really is a part of the outside--except the most violent life forms are excluded. And even some of those manage to find their way in once in a while." "When do I go?" Jason shot the question. "Tomorrow morning. Get a good night's sleep first. You'll need it."
2012年2月8日星期三
A few shots popped after them
Everything happened at once. The turbine howled, the spinning tires screeched on the road and the car crashed open the gate. Jason had a vanishing glimpse of the open-mouthed guards, then they were skidding around the corner of a building. A few shots popped after them, but none came close. Driving with one hand, Kerk reached under the dash and pulled out a gun that was the twin of the monster strapped to his arm. "Use this instead of your own," he said. "Rocket-propelled explosive slugs. Make a great bang.flower girl dresses Don't bother shooting at anyone--I'll take care of that. Just stir up a little action and make them keep their distance. Like this." He fired a single, snap-shot out the side window and passed the gun to Jason almost before the slug hit. An empty truck blew up with a roar, raining pieces on the cars around and sending their drivers fleeing in panic. After that it was a nightmare ride through a madhouse. Kerk drove with an apparent contempt for violent death. halter wedding dresses Other cars followed them and were lost in wheel-raising turns. They careened almost the full length of the field, leaving a trail of smoking chaos. Then the pursuit was all behind them and the only thing ahead was the slim spire of the Pride of Darkhan.
It is of no importance
"The official car gate will probably be wide open with the traffic through it. And a lot of the agents will be in plain clothes. We might even get onto the field without being recognized, though I doubt it. It is of no importance. We will drive through the gate and to the take-off pad. The Pride of Darkhan, for which we hold tickets, will be sounding its two-minute siren and unhooking the gangway.ivory flower girl dresses By the time we get to our seats the ship will take off." "That's all very fine," Jason said. "But what will the guards be doing all this time?" "Shooting at us and each other. We will take advantage of the confusion to get aboard." This answer did nothing to settle Jason's mind, but he let it slide for the moment. "All right--say we do get aboard. Why don't they just prevent take-off until we have been dragged out and stood against a wall?" Kerk spared him a contemptuous glance before he returned his eyes to the road. "I said the ship was the Pride of Darkhan. If you had studied this system at all, you would know what that means. Cassylia and Darkhan are sister planets and rivals in every way. It has been less than two centuries since they fought an intra-system war that almost destroyed both of them. Now they exist in an armed-to-the-teeth neutrality that neither dare violate. The moment we set foot aboard the ship we are on Darkhan territory. There is no extradition agreement between the planets. Cassylia may want us--but not badly enough to start another war." That was all the explanation there was time for. Kerk swung the car out of the rush of traffic and onto a bridge marked Official Cars Only. Jason had a feeling of nakedness as they rolled under the harsh port lights towards the guarded gate ahead.white flower girl dresses It was closed. Another car approached the gate from the inside and Kerk slowed their car to a crawl. One of the guards talked to the driver of the car inside the port, then waved to the gate attendant. The barrier gate began to swing inwards and Kerk jammed down on the accelerator.
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