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"That won’t make her happy"

"No, but it’s necessary We have to take in some new partners and new blood We also have the chance to collaborate with her company in Australia There are possibilities"

"Where’s Harriet today?"

"You’re out of luck She’s in London But she would very much like to see you"

"I’ll see her at our boardto take your place"

"I know"

"I think that she realises that I will never discuss what happened in the sixties with anyone except for Erika Berger, and I don’t see why Erika needs to know"

"She does You’re a person withshe does froer Corporation won’t have a free pass froer when he started to doze off He packed his belongings into two suitcases As he closed the door to the cottage for the last time, he paused and then went over to Cecilia’s house and knocked She was not hoe, and wrote: I wish you all the best Try to forgive me Mikael He put the note in her letter box An electric Christer’s empty house

He took the last train back to Stockhol the holidays Salander tuned out the rest of the world She did not answer her telephone and she did not turn on her co, and cleaning up her apartment Year-old pizza boxes and newspapers were bundled up and carried downstairs She dragged out a total of six black rubbish bags and twenty paper bags full of newspapers She felt as if she had decided to start a new life She thought about buying a new apart suitable - but for now her old place would be ly clean than she could ever re She had never in her life felt such a longing She wanted Mikael Blo the doorbell and what then? Lift her off the ground, hold her in his arms? Passionately take her into the bedroom and tear off her clothes? No, she really just wanted his company She wanted to hear him say that he liked her for who she was That she was someone special in his world and in his life She wanted hiesture of love, not just of friendship and coht

She had no faith in herself Blomkvist lived in a world populated by people with respectable jobs, people with orderly lives and lots of grown-up points His friends did things, went on TV, and shaped the headlines What do you need e and so black that it was of phobic proportions, was that people would laugh at her feelings And all of a sudden all her carefully constructed self-confidence seemed to crumble

That’s when she made up her mind It took her several hours to e, but she had to see hi else would be unbearable

She needed soiven hi to buy In a junk shop she had seen a nuns frons showed Elvis Presley with a guitar on his hip and a cartoon balloon with the words HEARTBREAK HOTEL She had no sense for interior design, but even she could tell that the sign would be perfect for the cabin in Sandhaot the price knocked down to 700 She had it wrapped, put it under her aratan she happened to glance towards Kaffebar and saw Blo, and she laughed, putting her ar his cheek They turned down Brannkyrkagatan in the direction of Belle left no room for misinterpretations - it was obvious what they had in mind

The pain was so immediate and so fierce that Lisbeth stopped in mid-stride, incapable of movement Part of her wanted to rush after thee to cleave Berger’s head in two She did nothing as thoughts swirled through her mind Analysis of consequences Finally she calmed down

"What a pathetic fool you are, Salander," she said out loud

She turned on her heel and went home to her newly spotless apartment As she passed Zinkensdamm, it started to snow She tossed Elvis into a dumpster