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As I climbed to my feet, she said:
"You go on now I officially release you from attendance Be off "
I went to kiss her again, and her hand onsense of e echoed in my ears And I are of a hot mixture of emotions - -that she had always made me feel safe, but now I didn't feel that she herself was safe, and so
Lestat made her a little bow, and we left the room
Jas in the hallway, a warht be Her sister, Lolly, and their grand Raht want
I told her we didn't need anything just now Not to worry And that I was going up to my rooms
She confirmed for me that Aunt Queen's nurse would come later, a ray of sunshine with a blood-pressure cup by the name of Cindy, hoht, which had already been announced as Gladiator, directed by Ridley Scott Jas Ramona would of course watch the movie as well
If Aunt Queen had her way, and there was no reason to think she couldn't, there ht be another couple of nurses in the room for the movie too It was her habit to raphs of their children, and receive birthday cards fro attendants around her as she could
Naturally, she had her own friends, scattered about through the woods and up and down the country roads, in town and out of it, but they were as old as she was and could hardly coht with her in her rooentleed to her and her court
That I had been a constant courtier before the Dark Blood was a fact But since that ti innocents, beleaguered and angered by the scent of blood
And so Lestat and I left her, and the night -- though I had al, and had fed without conscience on an anony -- was actually quite young
Lestat and I approached the staircase and he n for me to lead the way
For a ht I felt his indefinable presence I stood stock-still, wishing with all et away from me, as far away from me as if he were Satan
Were the curtains of the parlor ht I heard the faint music of the baubles of the chandeliers What a concert they could ether And he had done such tricks, perhaps without deliberation, because he who had once been so silent now came and ith a bit of clumsiness, perhaps more than he could ever know
Whatever the case, he was not near me now