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"... In the Old Days, before I had the stars to help me, I used to lose thousands ..."
. Susan Fisher had been with the firm for more than a year and knew Amelia Corning only by her stiff, cramped signature which from time to time appeared at the bottom of irascible letters of brief instructions. p align="justify">. He was shivering, only partly with cold, for he wore an old, fattered coat and beneath it what looked like a new pair of flannel trousers. p align="justify">. ... And every ten kilometres there was a larger fort manned by a platoon of Legionaries. p align="justify">. The dictionaries were for reference. But many were those whose sole knowledge of Hamlet (you know the title certainly, Montag; it is probably only a faint rumour of a title to you, Mrs. Montag) whose sole knowledge, as I say, of Hamlet was one page digest in a book that claimed: now at least you can read all the classics; keep up with your neighbours.
. His eyes were teasing, but nonetheless he looked worried
. The adults had lived with constant terror of Mussolini. The children had tried at first to pretend they didn t care (66) "What are the gaities of the Rich, the splendours of the Powerful, what is the pride of the Great, what are the gaudy pleasures of High Society? ".
. Among the accumulations of ten generations the living had left but few traces. p align="justify">. She wondered whether he already knew the contents of my telegram One morning in the mass in the town, as I drank brandies and sodas with a young officer who had a passionate desire to visit Southend Pier, orders for a mission came in.
. He stared at the parlour that was dead and grey as the waters of an ocean that might teem with life if they switched on the electronic sun. p align="justify">. And then, when the poor lady used her smelling-salts, the strong ammonia fumes would turn it blue. p align="justify">. She gave them all names and went to them on the train and sometimes walked for miles to get to them.
. She turned to face the sidewalk going toward their homes.
. They walked in the warm-cool blowing night on the silvered pavement
. My uncle says the two always go together.
. So many people are.
. He saw himself in her eyes, suspended in two shining drops of bright water.
. Since I was twenty, ten years ago.
. Is it true that long ago firemen put fires out instead of going to start them?
. Houses have always been fireproof, take my...