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Short Stories
Tail Feathers
At first light of dawn, just as the sky is tinged with pink across the mountain tops and the dew glistens in the first rays, he is up and ready, alert and on the move. Ready to take on every comer in defence of his one – or two or three – true loves.
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Send And Receive Chapter 1
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Pietermaritzburg, January 2003
Angie Wilson twirled her wine glass as she glanced at the faces around her. Everyone looked either suitably solemn, or suitably sad. She hoped her face was schooled into the suitably solemn mould, because she certainly didn’t feel sad.
Perhaps that made her a bad person, Angie thought, but you couldn’t make yourself feel sad when you didn’t feel sad. Could you? Even though she had just come from her great-aunt’s funeral.
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Blood Diamond Chapter 13
It was only days later, as the Royal camp up-staked again and set off on its strange perambulations northward, following some unseen path, some unstated direction, that Daniel had the opportunity to learn more about the green Bird.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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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 18
Was it a madness that possessed him? It could be nothing else. He didn’t think – they were not decisions that he made. He acted as though he were moved by some force greater than himself, working through his limbs, over which he had no control.
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Blood Diamond Chapter 19
It was a blur to Daniel, that night and the next day and the next night, walking, walking, leaving no trace, unsleeping. He walked with an energy and a strength that came from elsewhere, and he walked with none of the fear that accompanied every previous excursion beyond the safety of the camp.
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Blood Diamond Part 2 Chapter 1
A funeral at this hour on a Monday morning!
The thought invaded Esson Connor’s subconscious as she awoke to the sound of the funeral bell in the street below.
Oh please God, no, she thought, don’t let it be. She sat up in bed, briefly paralysed, before reaching up to open the window of her lodgings on the first floor of Mayfair Building.
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Blood Diamond Part 2 Chapter2
“Miss Connor. I have orders to place this envelope in your hands.” A butler, judging by his dress, he passed Esson a crisp white envelope. “My madam said I should wait for a reply.”
Back in her room, she sat at her writing desk and opened the letter. “Frances Shaw!” she exclaimed. Frances Shaw was inviting her to tea! What on earth could have possessed her?
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Blood Diamond Part 2 Chapter 3
“There was champagne flowing from the fountain, Miss. Real champagne! And half-naked dancers from Persia. The Baghdad troupe, they were called. All singing and dancing and jumping around the fountain. I saw them with my own eyes, Miss …”
Fortunately for Esson’s curiosity, the driver of the carriage Frances Shaw had arranged was a thorough gossip.
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Blood Diamond Part 2 Chapter 4
The Moulin d’Afrique was thick with cigars and satin. The vivid pinks and reds of the ladies’ figure-caressing dresses punctured the swirling smoke.
It was Saturday night and Esson and William Hume had joined the merry crowd gathered there. William stood to get them both a drink.
“I seek the green muse,” Esson said.
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Blood Diamond Part 2 Chapter 5
It was the hour for William to don Hamlet’s robes. Esson knew it was his most challenging performance yet, especially since it was to be performed in front of a crowd from all over the world, many of whom didn’t know Hamlet from Ham.
She made her way to the theatre early to surprise William with a good luck gift. She had a beautiful leather-bound copy of Hamlet – it had been part of her father’s collection of books. She had brought it with her to South Africa, never imagining she would give it away to Hamlet, to the man who had won her heart.
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Blood Diamond Part 2 Chapter 6
It was the evening of the Shaws’ party and Esson arrived in her carriage, passing through the imposing gates of the estate once more.
She felt more composed now. Her rage had not abated, nor had the pain she felt. But she knew she was a survivor, and that she would make sure she got through this, as she had got through the loss of her parents.
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Blood Diamond Part 2 Chapter 7
Esson felt a weight of loneliness as she opened the door to her room. She had not slept here since William’s opening night and it smelt of closed windows and neglect.
She undressed, her red velvet dress slipping to the floor. She stepped out of it as though from a pool of blood. She removed the pins from her hair and climbed into bed. It was a warm night and the fan overhead washed cool waves over her naked form. She thought about the party, but her mind refused to rid itself of the image of William kissing his leading lady. She wanted to kill him. She wanted to hurt him as much as he had hurt her.Page 1 of 1 pages
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