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"The big stretch limousine pulled out of the porte cochere, and I started to cry like a little boy

" 'You just don't understand,' I said 'She saw Goblin And I'emstone of a creature that I've ever seen ' "

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"THAT NIGHT I connected with Nash as I have connected with few people in ed a bond which lasted for my mortal lifeti limpse of Mona Mayfair

"I made hi since Lynelle died, and I even dared to tell him in profound words and circuitous sentences of how I feared the recent shifts of emotional temperature in Goblin

"Of course I told hier in whom no one believed, apparently, and that I expected in short order to be accused of having actually written er's letter to me

"I positively raved about Lynelle's loss I could do no less when I thought of it

"Nash's deep voice, his strong arentle hand onabout hientlemanly yet natural, that I felt I could trust him with my whole soul -- even with the erotic adventures I'd had withRebecca I even told hi with Jasmine

"What did Nash really believe? Did he think I was insane? I didn't know I only knew that he was being very honest with esture I knew that he respected

"I knew that he felt co, yet he took ht wore on that he understood and ree

"We started our marathon conversation in the front parlor, thankfully deserted early by our few guests, and we ended at the kitchen table, drinking coffee like fuel, though I kept lacing ar

"Only when Big Ramona ran us out did alk down to the old cemetery, and I told his I wanted to tell Mona

"We were under the big oak when the dawn caht, and it was there that I told him I would always love him

" 'You knohatever happens with us,' I said, 'as teacher and pupil, as friends, whatever coo to Europe eventually, or we study here -- I'll never forget you listening to et your inveterate kindness ¡¯