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Blood Diamond Chapter 17
Tregoning was mad, Daniel decided, as he walked away from that slumped heap of bone and withered flesh beneath the shade tree. Too many years of fever and hardship and loneliness among the heathen had broken his mind. But Daniel saw, in that sad, frail old shadow of a man, his own future, and he knew that something would have to be done.
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Blood Diamond Chapter 16
They were trying to kill him. Daniel was certain of that, but he puzzled it out over the next days, trying to make sense of it all. They were trying to kill him, but obviously they couldn’t do it openly, or it could have happened at any time, at any moment, a thousand times over.
Short Stories
Give and Go
When an ex-footballer and ex-sports journalist returns to London after twenty years in Australia, he finds himself confronted with a reminder of his broken marriage and the events that propelled him to the other side of the earth.
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Blood Diamond Chapter 15
But for the next few days, stretching into long, hot weeks, Daniel had no opportunity to see Tregoning. And so the time passed and they trekked further and further into that enormous, signless wilderness. The trees and hillocks, the rivers and valleys and plains, seemed to meld together. Daniel knew they were moving essentially northwards, sometimes zigging and zagging east and west by the dictates of a non-existent compass.
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Africa
Julie was an unsuitable girlfriend for Mikey. Unfortunately, even since their split, he can’t get her out of his head.
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Blood Diamond Chapter 14
For a while after that it seemed there was nothing to cause Daniel any great concern. But by degrees he became aware that things were changing for him – attitudes were changing. Even as he became more warmly embraced into the circle of the Royals, as he ate with them and spent time in their presence, as he tried out on them odd snatches of words and phrases he was learning, so he became increasingly more uncomfortable in the company of the ordinary people.
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Pride and Prejudice Chapter 19
The next day opened a new scene at Longbourn. Mr. Collins made his declaration in form. Having resolved to do it without loss of time, as his leave of absence extended only to the following Saturday, and having no feelings of diffidence to make it distressing to himself even at the moment, he set about it in a very orderly manner, with all the observances, which he supposed a regular part of the business.
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Praying Hands
This is the happiest day in Gigi’s life. She has met the man of her dreams and they couldn’t be closer or more passionate. So, why is she constantly plagued by these strange premonitions …
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Pride and Prejudice Chapter 18
Till Elizabeth entered the drawing-room at Netherfield, and looked in vain for Mr. Wickham among the cluster of red coats there assembled, a doubt of his being present had never occurred to her. The certainty of meeting him had not been checked by any of those recollections that might not unreasonably have alarmed her. She had dressed with more than usual care, and prepared in the highest spirits for the conquest of all that remained unsubdued of his heart, trusting that it was not more than might be won in the course of the evening.
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Hot Summer
And then there was the summer that I gave myself to pleasure.
I hardly knew Rose, but I saw her across the room at one of the last parties I went to in the city. On the spur of the moment, I asked her to come and stay, after she graduated, in the cottage I had rented for the summer. She arrived for just the weekend, but we became lovers, and she stayed. That was the start of it.
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