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“And out of which consideration are you dumping me, Duff? Is there an even younger, even more naive girl out there, who you know won’t nag you to commit, to sacrifice something? Not yet anyway.” “Does it help if I say I’m only thinking about the personal, selfish well-being I hope to feel when I imagine I’m doing the right thing for those I have obligations toward? If I’m breaking up with you because I’m scared stiff not to be included among the saved souls on the Day of Judgment?” “Do you think you will be?” “No. But the decision has been taken, Caithness, so just tell me how you want me to
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Getting real. SHe's sticking it to him
“I don’t want to enjoy it, Duff. I want closure. I want you to crawl, for once. I want you to swallow your virtue and do as I want. And now this is what I want. Just this. And afterward you can go to hell and home to the meal with the wife you no longer love. Come on now. I can see from here you’re ready for—”
The sergeant grabbed the rifle from behind the bar and ran to the window; the rest of the club members were already on their way to the arms cupboard. Outside there was a lorry standing side on to the clubhouse. The engine was running and the club gate was still hanging off its front bumper. As was Chang. The sergeant put the rifle to his shoulder as the tarpaulin over the back of the lorry dropped. And there were SWAT in their ugly black uniforms, their guns raised. But there was something even uglier on board, something which made the blood in the sergeant’s veins turn to ice. Three
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marital bed.
Joe keeps sayig marital bed? Do they have a word for the marital bed that he uses a lot? And I suppose the marital bed is just metaphorically and metaphysically different than whatever bed they usually sleep in together?
Meredith looked as if she had tried to keep Ewan and Emily warm as they sat on the floor in the far corner with her arms around them. Red feathers were stuck to the walls around them.
