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The bus is coming now, and you're staring at the tips of your black shoes. You've got to be prepared. You put your hand in your pocket, search among the coins, and finally take out thirty centavos. You've got to be prepared. You grab the handrail—the bus slows down but doesn't stop—and jump aboard.

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He himself was a very old man with shaggy white hair which grew over most of his face as well as on his head, and they liked him almost at once; but on the first evening when he came out to meet them at the front door he was so odd-looking that Lucy (who was the youngest) was a little afraid of him, and Edmund (who was the next youngest) wanted to laugh.

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Jessica stepped into the room, closed the door and stood with her back to it. My son lives, she thought. My sons lives and is . . .human. . . .

Paul looked at his mother. She told the truth. He wanted to get away alone and think this experience through, but he knew he could not leave until he was dismissed.

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You kind of remember having some bad dreams, but you can't remember what they were. You just lie there, flat as the faded streak of afternoon sunlight that slants through the western window and impales your bed.

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Robert talked a good deal about himself. He was very young, and did not know any better. Mrs. Pontellier talked a little about herself for the same reason. Each was interested in what the other said.

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Ben's voice drawled on and on, thickened with food and drowsiness. He told of the big moose hunts of his days with the Indians. . . . Listening, Matt couldn't make the man out. To hear him talk, he had been as big a hero as Jack the Giant Killer, but he didn't look the part. He had certainly fallen on hard times of late. No doubt about it, however, he could tell a good story.

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When Dad decided he wanted to take the family for an outing in the Pierce Arrow, he'd whistle assembly, and then ask:

"How many want to go for a ride?"

The question was purely rhetorical, for when Dad rode, everybody rode. So we'd all say we thought a ride would be fine.

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It is June 1959. You are twelve years old, and in one week you and your sixth-grade classmates will be graduating from the grammar school you have attended since you were five. It is a splendid day, late spring in its most lustrous incarnation, sunlight pouring down from a cloudless blue sky, warm but not too warm, scant humidity, a soft breeze stirring the air and rippling over your face and neck and bare arms.

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Here you come, better late than never: a face presentation. Not the boy your father so desperately wanted, but here you come, anyway, all six pounds three ounces of you. Button nose, conical head, good color. A swirl of dark hair atop your little crown. And a healthy pair of lungs, too.

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The trickle of people in the street became a stream.

Watching them, Grandmother sniffed. "I, for one, don't plan to leave my home just because the government might change hands once again. What has that to do with an old woman like me?"

Brave words, Sundara thought, but Grandmother had not seen the billboards all over Phnom Penh, the hideous picture that warned what the Khmer Rouge would do if they came to power.

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"I will take the box. Here is the basket."

And he shifted the box to his own back, regardless of the best robe he wore, and she, still speechless, took the handle of the basket. He thought of the hundred courts he had come through and of his figure, absurd under its burden.

"If there were a side gate—" he muttered, and she nodded after a little thought, as though she did not understand too quickly what he said.

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Hilda, however, likes you. You are young and remind her of her sister, the professional skater. "But I hate to skate," you say. And Hilda smiles, nodding. "Yup, that's exactly what my sister says sometimes and in the same way." "What way?" "Oh, I don't know," says Hilda. "Your bangs parted on the side or something."

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The water at the bottom of the horses' buckets is murky and has oats floating in it. But it's water all the same, so I carry the buckets outside, remove my shirt and dump what's left over my arms, head, and chest. "Feeling a little less than fresh, Doc?" says August.

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The voice said: We've been watching you. You're very good at what you do. You said: Thank you. It said: We want you to do that. We want you to do what you do for them, for us. So OK.

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"You are under arrest!" an amplified voice shouted above the deafening rotors.

I looked down. Most of the mist had been swirled away by the chopper rotors, and for the first time in an hour I could see the busy street eight hundred feet below the skyscraper.

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"Let me remind you," Barney Northrup said, "the rent here is cheaper than what your old house costs in upkeep."

How would he know that, Jake wondered.

Grace stood before the front window where, beyond the road, beyond the trees, Lake Michigan lay calm and glistening. A lake view! Just wait until those so-called friends of hers with their classy houses see this place. The furniture would have to be reupholstered; no, she'd buy new furniture—beige velvet.

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Some feeling of courage or pride surely enters your soul, and the blood flows faster in your veins, at the thought that you, too, are in Sevastopol.

"Your honor, you're steering straight into the Constantine," says the old seaman, who has turned to see where you are steering.

"All her cannons are still on board," says the boy, examining the ship as he rows past her.

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"This," said my godmother in an undertone, "is the child." Then she said, in her naturally stern way of speaking, "This is Esther, sir."

The gentleman put up his eyeglasses to look at me, and said, "Come here, my dear!" He shook hands with me, and asked me to take off my bonnet—looking at me all the while.

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"What's happening to me?"

The thin man with the scar reaches into his jacket and takes out a dog-eared business card and hands it to you.

Robert Llywelyn, it says. Private Investigator.

"You're a private detective?" you ask. And your own voice sounds strange to you.

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Mr. Grummage was dressed in a black frock coat with a stovepipe hat that added to his considerable height. His somber, sallow face registered no emotion. His eyes might have been those of a dead fish.

"Miss Doyle?" he said as I stepped from the Liverpool coach.

"Yes, sir. Are you Mr. Grummage?"

"I am."

"Pleased to meet you," I said, dipping a curtsy.

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Kira-kira means "glittering" in Japanese. Lynn told me that when I was a baby, she used to take me onto our empty road at night, where we would lie on our backs and look at the stars while she said over and over, "Katie, say 'kira-kira, kira-kira.'" I loved that word!