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From: | Harry Gardner |
Subject: | [Equinox-devel] docket archbishop |
Date: | Sun, 17 Sep 2006 22:59:05 -0700 |
Hope they got more gutsn you, Gursey
said.
The Bowens of Penine Downs, of course, Geoffrey
told him.
The rush of memories jostling his senses dazed him.
I been walkingaround a long time, missus.
Its just that once, ten yearsbefore you saw the
light, he slammed the door of chokey on me forlife.
And thinking therell be anyland but stony ridges
waiting for you in New South Wales. Well youve got alot to thank them for, Jack
Berry.
But still wehave our responsibilities as readers
and even our importance. Huh, you dont hold with nothing, but you lickspittle just
thesame. Cabell glanced furtively down the table to his wife,and rubbed his beard.
Aw, I aint scared catching nothing off a music-box.
Monaghan detected the snag in a too alluring
proposition. One of these days youll be worth your weight in gold a hundredtimes.
Five pounds inleather case with velvet lining and mirror in back. And heres
meknocked down twice that much in one go down Mother OConnors lastmonth. There was a
nervous shuffling round the table.
Were all men and every mans got his
rights.
We may stress the value of sympathy; we may try
tosink our identity as we read. We went back in the daylight and found him lying on
his backalong the track, deads mutton. It voiced itself inJamess grimace and cry,
For heavens sake, sir, cant we forgetall that? Five pounds inleather case with
velvet lining and mirror in back.
She was delicate, with a pale,transparent skin and
no blood in her lips. ANYTHING, they said, and sawall their personal ambitions being
sacrificed to her.
I made this valley so men could live in
it?
Faintly across the valley came, from time to time,
the rumble ofdistant explosions.
Or that youll ever be the spit of me
now.
Enough to buy a Carnegie out, to make a kingcrawl
after you.
Plays Killarney,Home Sweet Home, Irish Jig, etc.
Youve got a mind like a sheep, Jack Berry, Gursey sneered.
Ive seen Pat Dennis in chains and now his sons
couldbuy me five times over. THIS eBook IS OTHERWISE PROVIDED TO YOU
AS-IS.
Hope they got more gutsn you, Gursey said. But
theyre not good friends foryou, that mob, he said hastily, putting crazy notions in
yourhead. His neck rose out of hiscollar like a bone, bleached and stiff. Harriet
covered her face with her hands and burst into tears. And it isnt the way he walks
roundme in the yard now as if he might catch something. No, I dont hold with Chows
in a white mans country.
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