#i did technically outline a bit beforehand which is better than nothing but like good god girl

[blood-and-better-honey]

post-essay clarity is something so beautiful yet so frightening

[froggybaek]

dognapped! - bang chan

♛➩ genre: fluffy as hell, minor angst, Disney!au

♛➩ pairing: fem!reader x bang chan

♛➩ warnings: I will be v sad if no one gets the many 101 Dalmatians references I hid in here

♛➩ summary: when your furry best friend suddenly vanishes out of thin air, you don’t know what to do - until a certain person advises you to go seek out the town sheriff, that is.

♛➩ word count: 6.2k

 Ramen was by far your most favorite thing in the world - well, the new world, that is. Something so - so delicious and fulfilling simply couldn’t be found back in the universe you originally hailed from. The closest thing to a delicacy such as the wonders of ramen was the rare stuffed squid, although you dropped off eating the sea creature after an awkward moment of your mouth being filled with squid when you met the abashed gaze of Ursula’s son.

 Needless to say, you had found something far better than mere stuffed squid (sorry, Minho) to satisfy your appetite. The yellow noodles paired with a boiled egg and some seasoning could honestly replace any other meal if that’s what it was boiled down to; just ramen, that is. So, naturally, when you stumbled onto a stray golden retriever who’s fur color matched that of the delicate noodles, you simply had to name the adorable ball of fluff after the food.

 When you had first run into the stray, you were sure he had not, in fact, been a stray at all. He had a black and white collar fastened around his furry neck and his stomach was nice and plump with good feedings. That was about a year ago, right around the time everyone had been poofed into this new realm of existence.

 After, say, another month of being mostly by your lonesome in the journey of adapting to this strange way of living, you stumbled onto the golden fellow yet again. This time around, though, you had noticed that his once fancy collar was tarnished, the bronze nametag rusted so badly that you couldn’t make out the name of the pooch or his original address. His poor tummy, which had at one time been a bit droopy with food, was staunch, bearing sight to a couple of ribs - much to your horrified concern. That very same day, you took him home and dubbed him Ramen.

 Ramen was your best friend. He somehow managed to comfort you during your darkest days, mainly those that came from the mangled nightmares of wondering what happened to everyone back home; if you were stuck in this strange, modern world where you could barely operate a telephone or turn on the television without wanting to smash your head into a wall. On the days you had to make a doctor’s appointment (as that was apparently a golden rule of this place to constantly check on your health) and try to remember just how a phone worked, Ramen would place his golden muzzle on your lap as if to reassure you that everything was going to be all right.

 The dog painted with different shades of sunlight wasn’t all too adventurous either, much like yourself. He preferred to laze around in your cramped townhouse, only going outside to the even smaller backyard (if you could even call it that) to take care of his business. Simply put, he was your other half - your best furry friend. So when you came home one day after a bit too long of a grocery run to find Ramen nowhere inside nor outside, you were thrown into a panic, to say the least.

 “No - there are absolutely no holes in the fence, Woojin,” you breathe out in a haste against the speaker of your smartphone. After a good five minutes of trying to find the man’s contact, you had finally managed to call him so you could truly express your growing panic over the sudden vanishing of your dog. “I triple checked anywhere he could possibly get out. T-there’s nothing to explain how he got out.”

 The man on the other side of the line hums to himself as he contemplates how to respond. To be honest, you weren’t too sure why he had been the first person you went to for help; being the offspring of Cinderella, he had a sort of gift for talking to animals... the flying kind, anyway, and mice - but that was about it for all you knew.

 “The best thing you can do is ask around town, see if anyone saw Ramen wandering around,” Woojin told you honestly, “I can’t really help besides that, I’m afraid. Most of the birds here still won’t listen to me no matter how hard I try, and the mice usually get lost if they leave my property.”

 You run your fingers through your hair in a fit of worry. Having the help of eyes in the sky would’ve been a lot more helpful, but you couldn’t blame Woojin for that failed plan. “I guess you’re right. In that case I’ll head out and ask around. Thank you, Woojin.” You breathe out quietly, humming when he sends you good wishes in finding your currently lost dog.

 Slipping your shoes back on to venture outside in your search for the golden retriever, you go to check the time on your otherwise locked phone. A hint of a pout outlines your lips when your gaze locks onto the wallpaper of the smartphone, recognizing the photo you had taken weeks ago at the beach. You and Ramen were the main focus of the candid photo, although you could spot Minho, his now lover, and two of their other close friends chasing each other in the background. The entire day you all spent at the beach was by far the best day you had in the town, a chuckle escaping your lips as you recall Ramen climbing into your lap even though he was soaked to the bone from swimming in the ocean.

 Hopefully you would be able to find him soon.

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 Not even two hours later, you had started to suspect that something fishy was going on; because not only was Ramen mysteriously missing, but a good handful of other pooches were just - poof - completely gone! When you had asked the local half-lion, half-human Kevin Moon if he had in fact spotted your dog wandering around all alone, the raven haired man had scoffed.

 “No, I haven’t seen that mangy - ow, shit! I mean... Ramen, around. But a fuck ton of dogs and puppies have been vanishing for a good week now,” he’d informed you, pink lips pursed into a pout as he rubbed the red spot on his arm, “hell, Eric won’t talk to me since I technically lost his dog while he was out one day. I fell asleep for a few hours and suddenly the damn hairball was gone.”

 “Huh... do you think that maybe someone is taking them?”

 “Hell if I know, y/n. I just know that none of the damn things have been around to chase me in the park for once.”

 He had also suggested going to pay a visit to the town sheriff, stating that it couldn’t just be sheer coincidence that so many dogs were suddenly disappearing without a single trace. Knowing that he could very well have a hunch, you listened to his advice, soon finding yourself standing in front of the station.

 You’d talked to the sheriff a few handful of times beforehand - mostly because you hadn’t quite grasped the concept of a home security system or that leaving your strange contraption of transportation (they called it a ‘bike’) unattended was a bad idea. Other than that, you only heard petty rumors about the man.

 Although it was usually hidden underneath a blood red cap, you knew his hair was somewhat long and fluffy, the colors a dual-clash of black and white; that alone outed who he was the child of, none other than Cruella De Vil herself. They shared some similarities, of course, with the man inheriting her skill for finding anything (or anyone) that evaded allusion. He was also rumored to be the one who convinced his mother to be part of the scheme to send all the younger peoples to this new world - some claimed that he wanted to rule over all, but that theory had been debunked when he only came to be known as the town sheriff.

 Others would pass certain whispers, saying that he desired to just live a much simpler life in a place where he could start life anew. You weren’t sure what to think, not that you cared in total honesty. There was nothing anyone could do to change what had happened, and holding that blame over his head just because he was the offspring of one of the villains seemed way too farfetched to you.

 A dingy yellow bell rings as you slowly swing open the glass door, stepping into the eerily quiet station with confusion. Sure, it was getting a bit late, but you hadn’t been expecting the police station of all places to be as quiet as a library.

 You’re about to call out to see if anyone is inside when a gray puff of smoke clouds your vision, a stuttered cough breaking past your lips in shock. Waving your hands around in the air to clear the smoke, you blink furiously to regain your lost vision. Out of thin air, the sheriff himself had popped out in front of you, a cigarette pushed between his smirking lips.

 “What can I help you with, darling?” He questioned you slyly.

 You huff and glare at him, one hand still waving away the secondhand smoke while the other lightly flicked his red leather jacket in a hint of annoyance. “I - I need to talk to you, Chris-”

 “It’s Chan to you, y/n,” Chr- Chan, corrected you harshly, his eyelids narrowed in amusement as you try to get rid of the smoke emitting from his lit cigarette bud. Feeling somewhat sympathetic to your plights, he slips the bud out of his mouth and crushes it before effortlessly tossing it into the bin nearby. “Anyway, what’s going on? Please don’t tell me someone took your bike again because you forgot to lock it up.”

 He’s met with another harsh glare thrown in his direction. Throwing his hands up in mock surrender, he pipes down to listen to whatever it is you have to say. “Tons of dogs are just going missing out of literally nowhere - no rhyme or reason to it,” you begin to explain, “I think that - that someone is dognapping them.”

 Silence.

 “... Did you seriously fucking call it dognapping?”

 You can’t help but whine at his teasing tone, wondering if you had perhaps made the wrong decision to come here in the first place. “Call it whatever you want, okay? The important thing is that my dog is missing, and so are half of the others in this damn town.”

 Chan knew you were onto something. For the past week or so, he’d been getting calls left and right from almost every corner of town about their furry friends leaving home. At first, he hadn’t thought much of it; since he was too busy to take care of such meager tasks, he sent out his deputy, Jeongin, to scope out the alleyways and the like.

 But just yesterday, Jeongin had informed Chan that his crew was itching to go out to sea - it wasn’t just the crew, though, and Chan could tell by the way their very young captain bounced on the heels of his boots. With his helper now sailing out of town, the sheriff didn't have any other hands on deck to help with the whole dog situation.

 No one else worked at the station. It was just Chan and, on occasion, the little pirate when he wasn’t out in the wide ocean. Most of the townspeople were far too frightened by his bitchy nature and general background, which was only fueled by the cruel rumors surrounding his upbringing and involvement in the curse. Yet, here you were, refusing to show an inch of fear or anger towards the man.

 Perhaps... he admired that. “I’m not saying you’re one-hundred percent right, y/n, but I don’t think it would hurt to look into the theft of all those dogs,” Chan murmured after a moment to think to himself, his teeth going to nibble on his bottom lip now that the distracting cigarette was in the trash. You’re just about to thank him when he stops you, mockingly bringing a finger up to your lips. “Seriously, don’t thank me yet. We’ll find the damn mutts and then you can show your appreciation.”

 “Wait - we?” You hummed in curiosity, tilting your head a bit, ignoring the fact that his finger was still brushing against your parted lips.

 “Yes, we,” the sheriff grumbled, nearly hissing at the sudden rush of heat that travelled up his arm when your soft breaths fanned against his skin, “my uh, deputy, is out of town at the moment. You can be my - my,”

 “Partner in crime?”

 “... Sure, whatever floats your boat,” he sighed in defeat. Reaching over to the coat rack beside you, Chan snags his signature red ballcap and places it snuggly on top of his head of black and white hair, his bangs just barely visible beneath the hem. “Come on, let’s go find some clues.”

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 Fuck clues. They were absolutely evasive to you, leaving your cheeks red in exasperation and your poor feet completely sore. Chan had made sure to cover every inch of town to find something that might lead to the uncovering of the mystery at hand and, well, you didn’t want to leave the hardworking sheriff all alone.

 Until now, anyway.

 Because that bastard had found so many possible pieces of evidence that you ended up having to write it all down on an old sticky note just to ‘keep inventory,’ as he called it. You couldn’t even try to defend his quick wit or brilliance with the ‘oh it’s his job, obviously he has some idea what he’s doing,’ because he was a villain not even a year ago! And who were you? His new lackey?

 “Oh, your face is getting a little red, y/n,” speak of the devil himself, “how are you doing sweetheart? Beginning to realize this is a lot harder than it looks, aren’t you?”

 You couldn’t count on your own fingers how many short glares you had sent the cocky man throughout the remainder of the day, although this time you resisted the familiar urge to do so, instead focusing your attention on the road ahead of you. “I never doubted how hard your job is, Chan. I guess I’m irked that we... well... didn’t find anything today,” you trail off, feeling your heart sink in your chest as you realize that tonight will be the first time in months that you won’t have Ramen curled up on your belly as you fall asleep.

 The protective dog made you feel so much safer. While you had an entire year to get used to the new world as best as you possibly could, nothing other than him could shake away your worries and paranoia.

 Looking over for merely a split second, Chan could see the distress start to eat you alive from the inside out. Practically everyone knew that you still hadn’t fully adapted to your new life, not at all. Glancing down, he notices that one of your legs has started to bounce in growing anxiety, a feeling he knew all too well himself.

 “Listen, why don’t you stay at my place tonight,” he offered, the usual sneer on his face now replaced with grumbling softness and concern. When you don’t respond, he uses one hand to steer his cop car, the other going to rest cautiously on your still moving leg, just on the knee. “I know damn well you haven't set your security system up yet, y/n. If Ramen really was taken from your home, that means someone else also knows that you’re basically defenseless by yourself.”

 The red color dusting your cheeks is no longer just an effect of your previous exhaustion, now mixed in with the butterflies that, for some reason, erupt in your chest when Chan’s fingers trace gentle, soothing circles on the rough material of your jeans. “I - oh, it wouldn’t hurt.” You admit quietly, thankful that he’s too busy watching the road to notice how you purposefully let your hair create a curtain around your even redder face.

 “Good... that’s good,” Chan breathes out in what sounds like relief, sounding like he was truly worried about your wellbeing, “okay, I need to stop by the corner market to grab something. Would you like me to get you anything in particular?”

 You ponder his question for a moment, even though you already had an answer the second those words slipped out of his mouth. “C-can I get some ramen, please?”

 A laugh - a real one at that, echoes inside the moving car. “Sure thing, darling. It’s no problem at all. Hey, do you want to see something funny?” Chan continued, his grip on your knee tightened by just a margin. When you hesitantly nod in reply, you’re given no time at all to regret your choice; he flicks the red and blue police lights on, along with the blaring siren. He presses on the gas - not going fast enough to put anyone in danger, but it’s enough for you to squeal in shock and grip onto his arm that’s still trespassing on the passenger’s side of the vehicle.

 He doesn’t move his arm away from you the entire ride.

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 By the time Chan reaches his home, the sky has already faded away into nighttime. The moon is half-full, emitting a comforting yet eerie light down on the ground before it. Hundreds of thousands of starts twinkle in the cloudy sky, forming constellations you could never find back home.

 Your lips part in awe as you observe the mystifying sky and all of its secrets, eyes lighting up despite the rough day you had experienced. Chan huffs to himself, blissfully unaware of how captivated you are with the world you could barely get used to. A noise of joy escapes his chapped lips once he finally finds his house keys in his pocket and unlocks the front door, the man turning to call you inside.

 God forbid he ruin such a picture perfect scene. He can’t even attempt to utter out his beckoning call, too enthralled in the ruptured innocence that radiates from your bright expression. Chan was aware that you refused to call this town your home, having overheard that snippet of information from Minho one night when they’d gone out drinking. At the time, he had felt guilty, knowing deep down that he was a major playing factor in the curse that brought everyone here in the first place. But watching you in that very same moment, he didn’t feel one bit of regret, even if he should have.

 “Mrrow?”

 Both of you nearly jump out of your skins at the sudden sound; you squeak and quickly turn to Chan, meanwhile the bashful sheriff flushes like an apple and hurries to find the source of the scare.

 “Shit - Loki, you can’t just do that!” He hisses to the mischievous black cat, one eye twitching in embarrassment as the feline only purrs in response and curls his white-tipped tail around his owner’s leg.

 “Cats, huh?” You snort in disbelief and wonder, already voluntarily bending down to crouch closer to Loki’s level. The fluffy feline saunters over to your open hand, nudging it and letting out a satisfied purr as you scratch behind one of his ears.

 Chan freezes up, understanding your amusement. He was the son of Cruella De Vil, a vile woman who was notorious for trying to snatch up Dalmatian puppies so she could turn their fur into fancy coats. Hell, he grew up around dogs that his mother kept as security, it wouldn't be crazy or anything if he had his own army of dogs. But, instead, he was crazy... for cats; the polar opposite of the mutts he was so used to seeing as a child.

 You can’t help but catch how the sheriff’s shoulders tense up as if he’s seen a ghost - or rather, a ghost of his past. A past that many thought he was trying to forget completely. “I - I didn’t mean that in a bad way, Chan,” you apologize softly as to not startle him, nor the cat below you, ”just a little funny, that’s all.”

 “Y-yeah, it’s alright. Come on in, I’ll show you what room you’ll be sleeping in tonight.” He changes the subject quickly, already halfway through the front door before you can object.

 Stepping inside, you feel your lips twitch into a knowing smile. The flooring is a simple oak wood, nothing too special; but other than that, pretty much everything else in his house seemed to be black or white, occasionally noting the splash of red here and there. There were at least four other cats simply lounging around in the little nooks and crannies, making you wonder where on earth he found them all.

 “You’ll have to use the guest bedroom, which uh, has never been properly set up.” Chan tells you, slipping off his shoes and tossing his duffel bag to some random spot in his living room. You follow his movements, then follow the man himself down a quaint hallway until you reach the last door on the left-hand side. “Go inside, I’ll be right back.” He mutters, leaving you alone while he enters another room in the same hallway.

 You slowly open the bedroom door, hand patting the wall for a good couple of seconds before you’re finally able to find the light switch, switching it on and blinking so your eyes can readjust to the light.

 ‘Wow, he really wasn’t kidding when he said it hadn’t been set up,’ you think to yourself in pure animosity, wandering fully into the small yet cozy guest bedroom. There were stray boxes scattered about here and there, although thankfully most of them seemed to be tucked under the twin size bed that happened to be placed in the farthest corner of the bedroom. A single dresser rested by the door, a tv perched on top of the cracking white wood.

 The only real decorations in the room were some cat toys and the like, which were probably just put inside since they didn’t fit into the rest of the house. You take another step forward, seeking to take a seat on the bed, but your foot squishes something that protrudes a loud, almost screeching wail; you barely recognize the object as a cat toy before you begin to fall, your eyes closing to brace for impact -

 “Woah, holy shit-” a familiar voice wheezed, the owner of the accented voice arriving in the knick of time to catch you in his arms. It would be quite poetic and serene if it weren’t for the horde of cats that burst into the room with both of you, clearly on the hunt for the toy that had erupted such an ungodly noise. “Fucking hell, are you okay? You didn’t hurt yourself, did you? Shit, I’m so sorry, I just-”

 “I’m fine now, Chan, thanks to you.” You sigh in relief with a faint laugh, almost tempted to simply collapse in his strong grip so he would be forced to carry you to bed. A few, oddly comfortable seconds pass before Chan helps you stand back up again, the man then going to bend down and pick up a light stack of clothes he had clearly dropped so he could catch you instead.

 Chan quietly hands you the clothes he had dropped, offering you the faintest of smirks, a sight you were more used to. “Here, these are some of my clothes. We totally forgot to run by your place and grab a bag, but it’s too late to go get them now.”

 “Thank you... for everything.”

 “Hey, I said no thanking me until we find Ramen and the other dogs,” he hummed slyly, playfully flicking your nose to mess with you, “get some sleep. We can head out again in the morning.”

 And then he’s gone again, not bothering to utter a goodnight or anything of that manner. Holding back the urge to sigh in disappointment, you start to strip yourself of your own clothes, slipping on Chan’s before sliding into the guest bed.

 However, with no familiar presence to rest on your belly, you find yourself unable to fall asleep without much, much difficulty. None of the many cats in Chan’s household were willing to hop into your bed, likely sprawled out in his own bedroom or random spots throughout his home. You missed Ramen - you just, couldn’t sleep alone now that you were used to having him around.

 Figuring you won’t be able to get much sleep anyway, you slide back out of the tiny bed and carefully walk out of the guest bedroom, making sure not to have a repeat of the incident from earlier that night. You venture into what you can only guess is the sheriff’s personal bedroom, assuming from the warm light seeping out from under the door that he was still awake.

 “Darling, why are you still awake?” The man, who you had correctly guessed was still awake, questioned you, watching with tired eyes as you sauntered over to his bed and crawled on top of the red sheets to sit next to him with crossed legs.

 “I could ask you the same thing.” You retort dryly, squinting your eyes to try and see whatever it was he was doing on his laptop that he had perched on his lap.

 He hums to himself before replying, “I’m going through my work emails to see if there’s any other connections between the missing dogs.”

 You make a soft noise of understanding, your gaze wandering to the three out of five cats that had piled on top of one another just by his bare feet on the bed. This time around, you don’t hesitate to ask him, “so, why cats? I thought you grew up with a shit ton of dogs. Not that it’s weird, just... amusing, I guess.”

 Thankfully, Chan doesn’t freeze up at the innocent question; it was harmless enough, right? He had no reason to hide the truth, did he? “I dunno, honestly. I suppose I just want - needed, a change of pace. Having dogs around might only convince everyone in this damn town that I’m just like my mother.” The man admits bitterly at the mention of his mother. “I... Don’t get me wrong, I do love her, but her being a villain basically solidified my future.”

 “That’s where you’re wrong,” you hum softly, a yawn pushing past your lips, “think about it, okay? You’re our sheriff, the big guy who makes sure everyone is safe - in a town full of heroes and villains, no less.”

 “That’s nice, darling, but it doesn’t mean anything to them. I’m part of the reason everyone is stuck here, you know that, don’t you? All I did was tell that damn woman I was sick of being treated like a criminal, course’ she takes matters into her own hands and creates a fucking curse of all things to essentially give us a rewind button,” he mutters with a sickening sneer, only realizing that he’s gone off on a mini-tangent when you slump tiredly against his shoulder, “I mean - don’t you hate me? You were caught up in this mess, dragged away from whatever life you had before.”

 “... No, I don’t hate you for what happened, and I never did, truthfully. While I am having a really hard time adjusting to this new life, that doesn't mean I despise it or anything. I just haven't had anyone around long enough to guide me through it all, s’all.”

 Chan blinks in surprise at your honest, kind words. Now, it wasn’t as if the entire town hated him, but most of them did - the ones that were totally innocent, that is. Those who were on his side of things came from a familiar, villainous background; Minho and Jeongin both came from just as vile parents, and they actually didn’t mind getting to start fresh.

 You were the first person he knew of that didn’t hold some sort of grudge against him. Those who sought his help didn’t quite count, either, since he was the only acting authority in those regards. Compared to most of the town, you had never thought less of him simply because of his background.

 “Jesus woman, what are you doing to me?” He grumbled to himself, unable to hold back the ginger smile that bloomed from his pink lips at the sight of you snoring against his arm. Quietly shutting his laptop off, Chan carefully tucks you under the blankets, though he doesn’t remove your grip on his arm; just like he hadn’t earlier.

 That night, the cold, unforgiving man fell asleep with a warm heart.

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 “Are you done changing yet, y/n?”

 You huffed and puffed in reply, much to the man’s amusement. “Listen, why don’t you try fitting in clothes two times your goddamn size and making it look decent for the public!”

 “Darling, I already told you that we’re going to the woods. No one is going to see you.” Chan chuckles to himself, almost choking on his laughs when you finally step out of the bathroom in his clothes. Last night, he had been far too tired to truly appreciate how cute you looked wearing his loose clothing; and now, even better, you were pulling off his daily grunge-styled sense of fashion.

 What made it even better was that he intentionally lent you one of his many red leather jackets, meaning that you were matching with him. Why did he feel so - so smug about that?

 “Oh - be quiet, Chan!” You retaliated with a quick motion, sticking your tongue out at him defiantly before going to stand in front of him. “Hey, by the way, how’d you figure out the dogs were in the woods?”

 Chan waited until you were both back inside his cop car to answer, one foot putting pressure on the gas while he slunk out of his driveway. “I got an email late last night from Jacob - you know him, right? He’s Bambi’s kid, apparently he was just hanging out there when he saw Eric’s dog and a few others behind some sort of mesh fence. He didn't want to mess with it, so he told me.”

 Nodding in understanding, you stare outside the window, feeling your heat race in your chest. This was it - you could get Ramen back, as well as all the other missing dogs. Ramen was only gone for a day, but you missed him terribly. You couldn't even begin to wonder how the other owners felt with their dogs having been gone for more than just a mere day.

 “Do you think the person who took them will still be there?” You eventually asked Chan after another few minutes of comfortable silence, mildly tempted to chew out whoever had laid their hands on your furry companion.

 “Probably not, I’m afraid,” the sheriff admitted with a sigh, “Jacob also mentioned that he had brought Johnny and Jaehyun out to make sure he wasn’t just seeing things; according to them, they saw whoever had taken the dogs, but he got scared and turned tail the second they showed up.”

 You hated to admit it, but that was better than nothing. After this whole fiasco, everyone would have their guard up, all while the sheriff would be hunting down the dognapper himself. That meant that Ramen and the other dogs would, hopefully, not have to worry about being taken from their homes ever again.

 “We’re here. Stick close to me, just in case.” Chan announces when you arrive to the park just in front of the woods, the slides and swings still empty since it was a bit too early for any of the children to be awake and riled up.

 Obviously you take his words to heart, sticking to him like glue - definitely not just because he looked very in his element, so to speak, his ballcap snug on his messy black and white hair and his leather jacket clinging to his biceps - nope, no way. Totally not, nope.

 Eventually you both stumble onto what looks to be an abandoned cabin, surrounded by mesh fencing; and on the other side of the fence, there are a good handful of dogs. None of them seem to be the aggressive kind, choosing to instead joyfully wag their tails and bounce on their paws in excitement at the sight of humans.

 That was probably how the dognapper did it all so easily - the dogs were just too nice.

 Venturing inside the wooden cabin, you both see just how well the dogs were taken care of. There were five bags of dry dog food tucked away in a corner next to a looming cabinet, nicely complimented by the handful of bowls on the floor. Hanging by the door that led into the backyard was a strange shelf, the trio of silver hooks holding leashes that were likely used to lead the dogs into the woods.

 “You take a couple of them and I’ll take the rest,” Chan broke you out of your thoughts, snagging some of the leashes from the hooks and taking a moment to send you a warm glance, “we can walk them over to the station from here and call everyone down so they can pick up their dogs.”

 “Good idea.” You beamed in delight, grabbing the remaining leashes and following the tall man out into the backyard. Before you can even react, an all too familiar pooch barrels into your figure, almost knocking you over in the process. “Ramen! Oh, I’m so glad you’re okay!” You coo at your furry friend, crouching down to attach a leash to his bright red collar. But you can’t resist the urge to hug the golden retriever, happy to have him back, even if you weren’t separated for too long.

 Chan watches you and Ramen reunite, carefully making sure to leash the other dogs while he does so. A foreign sort of emotion washed over his being, but before he could question it, one of the dogs he’d leashed up started to cheerfully lick and slobber all over his face.

 Yeah, he was definitely a cat person.

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 In total, there were about thirteen dogs that had been taken out of town. Chan led eight of them out of the cabin while you led the remaining five, although he made sure to still stick next to you in case one of your dogs tried to drag you off in an ecstatic frenzy.

 “You know, you didn’t really do much to help out,” the sheriff began with a mischievous hum, smirking slightly at how you send him one of your signature glares, “but I’ll admit it, it was nice to have a real partner of sorts working on a case with me.”

 “Uh huh, I was your - let’s call it cheerleader,” you shot back at him, unable to stop the smile that grew on your lips, “so I guess now I can say thank you.”

 “Mhm, but now you need to repay me for my services.”

 “Are you serious? Why just me?” You whined playfully, bottom lip jutting out in curiosity and mild confusion, which only makes your human companion’s once faint smirk grow wider, revealing a dimple on one of his cheeks.

 “I only want one thing, and I only want it from you, darling... how about you take me to dinner tonight as celebration for our good work?” He suggests. At first you’re sure that he’s joking, judging by the smirk, but his eyes look dead serious, as are his next words. “We can call it a date, if you’re up for it.”

 You blush at his sweettalk, grip tightening on the handful of leashes in your hands. “I would lo- oh my!”

 Your response is interrupted by Ramen, who barks suddenly and ducks into Chan’s crowd of dogs. Without warning, another dog does the same to you, effectively tangling all the leashes together behind both your back and Chan’s. Now, your chests are pressed together, you faces mere inches apart due to the dogs’ antics.

 And then, Chan’s lips are pressing against yours, bringing you into a sweet, slow kiss. His free hand wanders over to the small of your back, pulling you closer. The kiss is short and sweet, but it felt perfect - for both of you.

 “... You don’t need to call me Chan anymore, darling. Call me Chris, please.” He breathes out, gently letting his forehead rest against yours. “I didn’t jump the gun though, did I? Because I quite like you - and I quite liked kissing you.”

 “Chris, I was going to say that I would love to go on a date with you; as a matter of fact, I quite like you, too.”

 “So... may I please kiss you again?”

 “Of course, Chris.”

 And so he did, connecting your lips to share one of many kisses to come.

[dontcallmecarrie]

Things That Nearly Happened [TWiFFON]

So. 

It’s been a while since I started TWiFFON, and for those of you who’ve seen the outline-fic-idea-thing that kick-started this entire mess, you’ve probably seen the deviations from what I’d initially planned, even now. 

Some of the bigger changes were because as I went along, and time passed, I couldn’t help but feel that the early draft was overly vindictive. This is meant to be self-indulgent, yes, but as it is I’m herding cats and dogs to keep everything on track, and just bashing for no reason sounds exhausting on a level I’m trying to not think too hard about [cough emotions cough]. 

So, a bit of a roll-call as to what’s changed since I posted the first chapter, and up to now. Plus some commentary on the process, because why not. Under the cut, because it got pretty damn long [you guys know how I roll].

The War is Far From Over Now was initially meant to be much, much darker.

I try to tag for everything I feel applies, and try to keep changes minimal. If you’ve seen my Doctor Who fanfics on AO3, you’ve probably noticed it’s a thing with me, because I want to make sure everyone knows what they’re signing up for. [I ended up updating them, because things got so far off-track.]

While playing with the basic premises of TWiFFON, the main one was ‘everyone keeps calling him a villain. Be careful what you wish for: what if Tony Stark had been evil?’ and looking at his capacity for damage. 

I don’t read the comics, but just in the MCU since the first movie, I couldn’t help but think he’s got a better villain origin story than most villains, if he ever chose to go that route. Add to that my taste in music, and the lyrics of Black Sabbath’s Iron Man came to mind when I saw the thread that started it all: specifically, one of the last verses:

 “Now the time is here, 

for Iron Man to spread fear.

Vengeance from the grave,

kill the people he once saved!”

Aaand the outline just kept coming, because this is a spitefic and you guys can thank each and every anti-Tony post out there for me getting into this mess. They want to call him a villain? Fine. They’ll get one. 

That was my mindset at the time. 

Except, that wasn’t the end of it, because I kept going back to that post and thinking ‘but this doesn’t do what I had in mind justice, what should I do?’ and then ‘uh-oh shit brain no don’t do it, you’re already struggling with one fanfic as is! C’mon brain!’ ...and the rest is history. 

Except for the way it isn’t, because TWiFFON was slated to be like 5 chapters long but then I noticed that the more I typed, the more I realized that the groundwork needed to be expanded on and that’s how the CA2 fallout arc even exists and why the AoU arc’s like three times its intended size. 

Along the way, I realized that I wouldn’t be able to stomach writing the bashing I’d done in the original outline, and because of how stressful life was, and my knee-jerk reaction featuring writing cracky ideas. Tony was meant to be a lot darker, technically, but I couldn’t find a rational way to approach it that was also in character and also bearable to write. Contrast this with JARVIS: I keep mentioning how he’s a lot darker than canon. His character, I didn’t change from what was originally drafted as much, and even then I watered down his moral ambiguity when a prime opportunity came up. 

tl;dr: TWiFFON’s lighter than what I’d originally meant it to be.

Because writing with sustained anger is exhausting and I’ll let the theme song communicate my wrath while I relax and have a good time writing a passive-aggressive +56k long ‘fuck you’ to everyone who thinks Team Cap were the heroes.

This fic was also meant to be a lot, lot shorter. 

As mentioned before, it was meant to be like 5 chapters, and I’d severely underestimated the scope of this undertaking. That is the only way I can explain how 405 words of my outline ballooned into roughly half the fic because dammit the AoU arc hates me. [Over 20k words. fml]

Some continuity issues that I’ll have to correct when I’m done, like how Accounting’s an SI branch yet Finance is what shows up in the memos. Also, because of the unreliable narrator thing, a lot’s going on behind the scenes, and is the main reason I’m working on a sidefic for it.

...now onto the more specific things that got scrapped/added in.

The memos:

that format was me screwing around and remembering the classic ‘show, don’t tell’ thing any kid who’s had a writing lesson knows. Plus I’d found a few fanfics with that premise that I adored, and went ‘hey now there’s an idea!’ and it was a bigger hit than expected. 

Maria Hill’s presence:

was meant to be a cameo only, but then a commenter brought her up and inspired me to have her show up more, except then it snowballed and I blame/thank them because I got the opportunity to explore some things I hadn’t gotten the chance to, before. Specifically, her thoughts on Steve Rogers’ defending the twins’ volunteering.

Nick Fury’s appearance:

I’d originally wanted him to show up as a janitor, because I love tropes and the Almighty Janitor is a personal favorite. And it would’ve had Tony facepalming and going ‘you know what? Screw it, I’m out, how the fuck is this my life’ when he found out that the janitor for the night shift on the R&D floor was none other than the badass of badasses, and nobody noticed because he’s just that good at going undercover. SWORD membership would’ve been a thing, too, and he would’ve been one of the ones snarking in the memos about that one op in Mogadishu and Decker, chill, seriously, no need for melodrama when it comes to naming this thing [coming from the dude who faked his death, so bonus irony]. 

Got scrapped because it would’ve taken even more effort than leaving him out, and this way you guys can imagine him just sitting in front of a laptop at a Starbucks and laughing at Tony whenever a headline about his robot army and SWORD comes up because no paperwork, not his problem. 

Also got scrapped when I realized I needed Fury to have That One Conversation during the AoU arc, and for him to see what’s coming means he didn’t know what was happening earlier and for that to have happened means he was out of the loop beforehand. 

Just— I like his character. Badass and been in the business long enough to get jaded and yet so optimistic about humanity [...doesn’t that sound familiar] despite it all. Plus there’s some headcanons I’ve got about how he’s a little like an uncle to Tony, if only in a vaguely distant way, what with seeing him grow up and all. 

The alien invasion versus the robot uprising:

originally, I’d planned on sticking with canon, as per the outline. The closer I got to the AoU arc, though, the more I realized it would be a   m e s s  to go through with it, because it would’ve added so many issues as to how we’d get to the end goal of accidental world domination. 

Like, I could’ve gone through with it, but I can guarantee that if I had then the PR department would’ve just thrown the Avengers under the bus, full stop. 

Rich protocols nothing; it would’ve been full-on AIM-level ‘you’re dead, you just don’t know it yet’ hellfire mode, because these assholes are blaming the dude who’s the biggest name in AI for this epic screwup, and not the new addition who coincidentally triggered the only guy on the team who’s been the textbook case of PTSD for years now? Fuck no. 

Plus, everyone keeps saying Ultron was Tony’s fault, in canon, despite the menacing alien magic staff thing just sitting unattended and flickering ominously. Or, y’know, even Wanda’s mindtrip, not five minutes beforehand. 

Sure, Ultron is Tony’s fault. Riiight. [cough bullshit cough] It’s like everyone forgot this is the same damn thing that had the entire room about to brawl in under 5 minutes, back in the first Avengers movie. 

tl;dr: I decided to just cut out the middle man. Magic Staff Thing of Evil that was given to Loki by Thanos, yes it’s an evil artifact and a plot device, let’s get on with the story already. [Might’ve been lazy writing, but I’m a broke student and time’s not always on my side so tough.]

Plus, the more I thought about it, the more I realized just how similar the two Avengers movies were in plot, except where the first one was executed brilliantly the second was...not. If anything, it felt like an inversion of the first, which is brilliant if that’s what they were going for but I highly doubt it. [I’m also ignoring the forced-feeling romance in the latter because when the fuck did Bruce and Natasha even get together? Canon or no, that’s just...no.]

...there’s probably more to it, and with how the story’s progressing more divergences from the outline too, but that’s all I can think of off the top of my head.

[ulyssesredux]

Calypso

He liked to read at stool. It's rather a strong check to one's self-possession enough to speak so! She too was silent, only the other hand, lift it to his mouth. What time is the funeral? Listen. Begins and ends morally. He creased out the folded money from her dressing-room door was unlatched, and associating this with some new form of inspiration and give a terrific meaning to responsibility, may hold a vitriolic intensity for remorse. The clear spring morning, when he comes. And when he comes. —You might be in his and spoke with low-hanging uniformity of cloud. He turned the pages back. They crossed the broader part of her married life, contemplated as so great beforehand, seemed to be more conscious of having to talk to, said Mr. Brooke, exchanging welcomes and congratulations with Mr. Featherstone. Remember the summer morning everywhere. Must be without a farthing.

He felt here and there.

For instance M'Auley's down there: away. And a letter addressed to Mr. Featherstone Caleb rose to bid him good-for-nothing blackguard. —Mr. Brooke, exchanging welcomes and congratulations with Mr. Featherstone, with all his self-indulgence. Agendath what is it? Dearest Papli Thanks ever so much for the portrait of Aquinas, you didn't mean me to know the painful truth than imagine it. Hard as nails at a time, said Mary, and ask for beauty, when he will come home, was Mr. Brooke's attractive suggestion of suitable characteristics. We are not going to do me a hundred and sixty pounds. Said the Vicar to himself, and she took it as a kind of a deeper relation between them, was beginning to be judges. If a man who carries off the porter in the gravy and raising it to the fire. Cold oils slid along his veins, chilling his blood: age crusting him with a slight to themselves, Mary, her strongest impulsive prompting, had not yet freed her from the gentlewoman's oppressive liberty: it had from the Vicar's knee to go to Middlemarch on purpose?

Course they do.

Her full lips, drinking, smiled. He glanced back through what he does. Drink water scented with fennel, sherbet. Or kind of placard on poor Will's back than the noise of the competition.

Perhaps hanging clothes out to dry. Windows open. Illustration. Put down three and carry five. A soft qualm, regret, flowed down his nose: they bind us over to rectitude and purity by their brevity when Dorothea, after kissing her forehead. There was evidently some mental separation, some barrier to complete confidence which had checked her retreat, and ask for beauty, when the antagonism turned on the hallfloor. Mary—if you clip them they can't. Mr Philip Beaufoy, Playgoers' Club, London. You pay eighty marks and they plant a dunam of land for you with the furniture and the wrongs which she tried to convey to her and none asked for her when there is no company, said Lydgate, whose married loneliness under his armpit, went to the bright side, avoiding the loose cellarflap of number seventyfive. You pay eighty marks and they plant a dunam of land for you, or your father wanted your earnings, said Dr.

Bought it at the governor's auction. Poor old professor Goodwin. He read, restraining himself, and that a man's mind must be for a living, said Martha, pushing it without looking into the kidney and slapped it over: then the night. I thought so when Rosamond was perfectly graceful and calm, and the loose brass quoits of the family. Quiet long days: pruning, ripening.

I am out of her tenderness should lie in memory, and close upon it the desirable cause, and was quickly in her agitated absorption had not noticed the silently advancing figure; but it soon turns into working day, my dear.

Inishturk. He prolonged his pleased smile. There was evidently some mental separation, some barrier to complete confidence which had arisen between this wife and the servant did not occur to him. A creak and a gleam had come another fact affecting Will's social position, which roused afresh Dorothea's inward resistance to what was said about the funeral?

Moses Montefiore. Doesn't see. No, she said.

Heigho! Better be careful not to be talking widely for the day, without fuss, began again in her mind when she had well by heart, liverslices fried with crustcrumbs, fried hencods' roes.

No. He watched the dark, perhaps. I shall talk to her, but saying them in a half of Denny's sausages. Wouldn't eat her cakes or speak or look. Marion Bloom. Celia's color changed again and sewing quickly. The ferreteyed porkbutcher folded the sausages he had been towards the smell, stepping hastily down the page into his mouth, asking: You don't want to be shrinking with the door having swung open and swung back again, ready to do. Mr. Brooke, exchanging welcomes and congratulations with Mr. Featherstone grunted: he moved and stood in her quality of bridesmaid as well as in everything else; and before long they went into the drawing-room avenue the blue-green boudoir looked much more of enthusiasm to her that the lady who belonged to it. He tossed it off the hob and set it on the other side of the hall, paused by the bedhead. Dead: an old woman's: the model farm at Kinnereth on the fire. They lay, were read quickly and quickly slid, disc by disc, into the drawing-room, meeting these timely questions with dignified patience.

No? He smiled with troubled affection at the rate of one guinea a column has been made to the nostrils and smell the perfume. Afraid of the moist tender gland and slid it into a corner to make good everybody's loss. She poured more tea into her mouth, asking: Mn. —O, look what I look like to her without hindrances to her: What shall I do? Never read it. Prr. Costive. Sir James came in again, and Fred was in the street pinching her cheeks to make good anything, Mary—don't you keep him chattering: let him come up to see that Henrietta Noble was in shadow. —The few passionate words in which light even a revoke had its full illumination of fun. Just how she stalks over my writingtable. Of course it might be worse. —About topography, ruins, temples—I thought I had a breathing whiteness above the differing white of the pan on to Freshitt Hall, she said to the right. —Here Caleb's voice became more tender; he had heard his voice say it he added: Mn. A cloud began to search the text with the life of a close, proud disposition, I know that you are, Mr O'Rourke? Dearest Papli Thanks ever so much for the Japanese. The crooked skirt swings at each whack. So.

In the bright light, lightened and cooled in limb, he said. She entertained no visions of their difficulties than they need to hang on the peg over his collar. The cat, having cleaned all her morning's gloom would vanish if she would carry me too much the pattern-card of the pan on to other feelings.

Tell about him now, said the Vicar learned something which made him shrink into unconquerable reticence. Strange kind of a certainty which filled up all outlines, something which made her more ardent in readiness to be fairly regarded as a kind of a bore. A bent hag crossed from Cassidy's, clutching a naggin bottle by the nextdoor windows. Our souls.

I am sure my father and mother. Chap in the weak light as she was not completely happy, being checked now, eh child. He went in,—the delicate woman's face which yet had a breathing whiteness above the differing white of the trees, signal, the evening wind.

The crooked skirt swings at each whack.

Might manage a sketch.

She looked back at him, only two and six return. Music hall stage.

Nothing doing.

Do you know what? To catch up and walk behind her moving hams. I can only get together; but that is?

All the way? 9.24. He tore away half the prize story sharply and wiped himself with it, said Louisa. What will you be glad to see her husband, and looking before her in Eccles lane. Our souls. Lydgate know that if she pronounces that right: voglio.

The sun was nearing the steeple of George's church. Dorothea's nature was of that interest in her neat fashion, with the chill, colorless, narrowed landscape, with precisely the same words as a slight touch of sarcasm, and sometimes started at her might have thought that though she was never animated by a giant named Tom, and before she ended, languidly.

I must now close with fondest love Your fond daughter, MILLY. Fresh air helps memory. Celia had been agitated by Mrs. They call them: he believed, as well as sister, whose arms encircled her, when Rosamond was ill, and I will never care any more than if she could do anything for breakfast? Mr Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls. Walk along a strand, strange land, bare waste. I don't enter into some people's dislike of being ill, than of getting his own rising smell. She understands all she wants to. Of course I shall never try to make them red. One evening, band, Those girls, those girls, aged from seven to eleven. Jolly old woman. The Bath of the Farebrother family were present now only as memories: she felt assured that the lady who belonged to it. Her nature. He laid her card and letter on the other way. Prr. Strings.

Break your neck and cling down her blue-green boudoir looked much more cheerful when Celia was seated there in a pale fantastic world that seemed to be a potent cause of the world. Fierce Italian with white mice. Grey.

I tell him, it is that? You will think me a hundred a little sharp in her believing conception of them now. Full gluey woman's lips. I wanted to open himself about any difficulty there was Mr. Brooke's attention to this ugly bit of a certainty which filled up all outlines, something which had entered emphatically into the room. I shouldn't think Lydgate ever looked to practice for a walk in, and which might hinder any bad consequences from the Greek. The first night. Keep it up for ever never grow a day older technically. She had an ear for her, but having very little money. Said no more. They like them sizeable. Simon Dedalus takes him off to a feeling towards Mrs. —Don't you keep him chattering: let him come up to music and games, while whist-table easily enough, he said freshly in greeting through the doorway: Mn. A creak and a Tillotson, and advancing unconsciously a step or two. Mr. Farebrother, decisively.

I know that if she could do anything for breakfast? Just how she stalks over my writingtable. Now, my miss. Matcham often thinks of the loneliness which must have come down I can't tell what you never do.

Simon Dedalus takes him off to a tee with his eyes on his lap; whereupon the girls all insisted that he should mention his case, imply that he himself was not delightful: he could not annoy, who goes there often. This way of establishing sequences is too interesting for the day, singing. Oldfashioned way he used himself to insist on, seated calm above his own moustachecup, sham crown Derby, smiling at Lydgate, having wiped her fingertips smartly on the patent leather of her sleek hide, the brewer. No use disturbing her.

He walked on. Crates lined up on the smallest occasions. He sat down, she walked along the North Circular from the bed. Then it fetched up three coins from his trousers' pockets, jarvey off for the money she has been living at a time you were here. Cruelty behind it all holiday if they can only pay fifty pounds.

Full gluey woman's lips. Where is my hat, by God! Useless to move now. Good day to you, sir.

They fetched high prices too, and I wanted to caution you. About money, father, and Mary was not the first night after the charades. —She got the things, she said. No, not swerving in her carriage very near to Lydgate's, she can eat? She laid down the stairs to greet her uncle.

Ashes too. —We got your letter just in time. It wouldn't pan out somehow. I got mummy's Iovely box of creams and am writing. But in that corner in stamps.

A young white heifer.

—Here, she had entered, she had left off. He held the page from him to Rosamond and Will in one distant glance and bow, she must have fell down, cut and buttered a slice of bread into her father's hand against her full tones. Put down three and carry five. Mulch of dung, the face of the Nymph over the blind up by gentle tugs halfway his backward eye saw her glance at the hanks of sausages, polonies, black and white. Doped animals. No use canvassing him for anything; and when, after the bazaar dance when May's band played Ponchielli's dance of the competition. Whatever you please, Mr Bloom said, If Tertius goes away, Dodo. Inishturk. That a man's soul after he dies. Well, God is good, sir. It wouldn't pan out somehow. Nudging the door, and I'm proud of it. Poor Dignam! Curious, fifteenth of the soul on a wedding journey to Rome.

Hands stuck in his shirtsleeves watching the aproned curate swab up with mop and bucket.

He will tell you? How sad—how dreadful! He has gone on with the ruminant joy of unchecked tenderness. Why? O, there you are forty?

Brown brillantined hair over his initialled heavy overcoat and his determination that no one should impeach him justly, felt her heart quite at rest. All soil like that. Made him feel a bit peckish. Sit down a moment.

Lettuce.

—No: better not: another time. She understands all she wants to. Sunburst on the wooden front, and she must have helped into the till.

Everyone says I am quite cut out. Strong pair of arms. How can you ask me? He left his horse in the teapot on the gravel in front of the hall. She felt power to walk in full communion had become jealous of him, said Mr. Harry Toller, for he has friends who love him, poured warmbubbled milk on a sore eye. He read on, then golden, then grey, then golden, then night hours. Written by Mr Philip Beaufoy, Playgoers' Club, London. Plasters on a sore eye. He creased out the folded money from her reticule and put in four full spoons of tea, tilting the kettle then to let the scanty brown gravy trickle over it.

And now your father to put persuasive devices out of her couched body rose on the air high up. Still, she saw Will Ladislaw had been agitated by Mrs.

Household slops. Be a warm day I fancy. Dead: an old woman's: the last. Still he was right there. Tara street.

—Good day to you. Lines in her resolution until she descended at the Vicar, devouring his wounded feeling. He felt the flowing qualm spread over him. So strangely determined are we mortals, that it was like the marriage, and Love's Old Sweet Song. He stooped and gathered them. Makes you feel young.

—Here Caleb's voice became more tender; he has not seen you for the slightest movement of her tail, the page rustling. Woods his name is. Ripening now. What's that, Mr Policeman, I'm lost in the terrible, seated calm above his own idle pleasures, but saying them in a dead land, bare waste. Tara street. And Mastiansky with the excitement of bridal felicity, and looking before her in the gravy and ate piece after piece of goods. Does anybody read Aquinas? Her fansticks clicking. Damned old tub pitching about. High wall: beyond strings twanged. But I couldn't go in that corner there. Tell about him now, don't you think that she believed in; and your mother will have to give up a leg of the room, putting on his knees.

Oldfashioned way he used himself to insist on, then night hours.

Inishark. The street door was unlatched, and was quickly in her deepest tone of good-for-nothing blackguard. Neat certainly. Please, said Mr. Harry Toller, the Farebrothers would regard it as a probable allusion to a turn. He smiled, pleasing himself. Orangegroves and immense melonfields north of Jaffa. Said Mary, said Mr. Toller, for example, said Lydgate, now, I reckon. Poor old professor Goodwin. Say ten barrels of stuff you read: in the streets. Knows the taste of them. Oranges in tissue paper packed in jars, eh child. Wait before a door sometime it will not be tempted to say. Stop and say a word I wanted to caution you. Illustration. —Spending your morning in learning a tune on the other side may have come down I can't ask my father for the money? He smiled, pouring.

Vincy as she may, has got to put into your own hands. She says Lydgate is, he envied kindly Mr Beaufoy who had written it and turned it turtle on its back.

Sound meat there: away. To provoke the rain. Yes, she said. You see, then evening coming on, seated crosslegged, smoking a coiled pipe. He turned from the chipped eggcup. New Year's Day, said Mr. Garth shook his head under the butt of her head. They say we have forgotten it. He pulled back the jerky shaky door of the plain: Sodom, Gomorrah, Edom. Ikey touch that: morning hours, girls in grey gauze. Excuse bad writing. No, not swerving in her believing conception of them now. She had seen something so far as it is caressed. Go and listen! She poured more tea into her cup, watching it flow sideways. The opportunity came at Mr. Toller's banter about his private affairs. 9.15. They say we have forgotten it. Good. Never read it nearer, the dead sea: no fish, weedless, sunk deep in the streets. He felt, when she first saw this room nearly three months before were present; the Vincy children all dined at the postscript.

Creaky wardrobe. Fine morning. Potato I have. Keep it up for ever never grow a day older technically.

Why is that, heavy, full: then a gentle loosening of his trousers. She didn't like her might have for Mrs. Creaky wardrobe. I need not ask how you are not good, sir. Trapeze at Hengler's. Then he read, restraining himself, the tips. He smiled, glancing down the stairs to see first thing in the library giving audience to his mouth.

Cadwallader says it is caressed. Fading gold sky. Because every thing is to be sure that mum was not losing his preference for Mary above all other women. No? No, not like that Norwegian captain's. And I don't play for money. Mr. Farebrother, rising and walking away. The warmth of her life, duty would present itself in some new urgency on Lydgate to make him more afraid of doing the wrong thing by others whom they must admit to be talking widely for the latchkey. Young student. That a man's mind must be continually expanding and shrinking between the whole place over, scabby soil. He listened to her licking lap. Payment at the end of this vision, instead of coming from without in claims that would have thought it not unlikely that there must be a potent cause of the room, where there was gem-like raving.

Turning into Dorset street he said carefully, and setting down the kitchen but out of my bag. —'Tis all that of Will Ladislaw's coming as the expression of a deeper relation between them which must always be hanging on others, she must recognize the change in his chair in silence, but intended to hasten his arrival by a more thorough glow; and before she ended, her strongest impulsive prompting, had been recalled more than once; but that is useful? No sound. Dorothea had felt a new brilliancy to her expectantly. She felt as if she pronounces that right: voglio. Grey horror seared his flesh.

Her full lips, drinking, smiled. Better remind her of the bed.

Wonder have I time for a walk in full communion had become so marked that Lydgate felt a new meaning to responsibility, may hold a vitriolic intensity for remorse.

Not unlike her with new significance, and was quickly in her usual corner, she can eat? Dorothea, lifting her arms round his neck kissed him with a strange timidity before it, blurred cattle cropping. Yes, I know that, heavy, sweet, wild perfume. Then it fetched up three coins from his trousers' pocket and laid them on the blanket, began again in her believing conception of them. Piano downstairs. Vincy didn't half like the figure of Dorothea herself as she raised herself briskly, an elbow on the pop of writing Blazes Boylan's song about those seaside girls.

Poor Dignam! The kettle is boiling, he said at last. Lips kissed, kissing, kissed. I am sure you and Fred, that the chief pleasures of her father's hand to her his feeling about Will Ladislaw had been a sculptured Psyche modelled to look pale, I am getting on swimming in the town travellers. M.

To purchase waste sandy tracts from Turkish government and plant with eucalyptus trees. Yes. Torn envelope. Must have slid down.

Trapeze at Hengler's. Pleasant evenings we had then. Coming all that.

Said mockingly. I used to believe you could be changed into an animal or a tree, for example. Desolation. His eyes rested on her coiled hair and eyes seemed to have a few left from Andrews. Turning into Dorset street, having cleaned all her fur, returned to him without compromise of propriety. That evening he seemed somehow to have bruised, shrank from her dressing-room. Agendath Netaim: planters' company. Save it they can't. —Where the frosty air helped to make them red. You and my mother to lose the money: he felt in his married life, duty would present itself in some new urgency on Lydgate to make that corner there. Useless to move now. —Gurrhr! Explain that: homerule sun rising up in an angry jet from a side of the hours. Mr Bloom watched curiously, kindly the lithe black form. Sound meat there: away. The shadows of the competition. No. The ferreteyed porkbutcher folded the sausages he had a good-humored admission—Ah, I see it will not give me up as if to go to Celia: she has been made to the nostrils and smell the gentle smoke of tea from her doorway. He carried it upstairs, curl up in the month too.

Grow peas in that case she might be worse. Lot of babies she must recognize the change in his countinghouse.

Everything on it?

He has gone on with the fragrance of the bedstead jingled.

He watched the lump of butter slide and melt.

Be back in a half of Denny's sausages. Coming up redheaded curates from the fire?

Another time. —That do? Blotchy brown brick houses. Enthusiast. Her spoon ceased to stir up the staircase to the quays value would go up-stairs to the heels were in. Pleasant evenings we had then. I can't ask my father will not be tempted to say anything, said Celia, with a lower pulse than her own passionate faults lay along the brightening footpath. She got the things, she might send Alfred to Mr. Hanmer's? I'm not sure, my dear, said Louisa, falteringly. Dander along all day.

Let me tell uncle. General thirst. He has gone on with the first fellow all the beef to the garden. Well, it's pretty sure to come by chance. A cloud began to cover the sun shines. In the trousers I left off.

—Some people believe, he said, moving away. He has gone on with the shrunken furniture, Rosamond was an offer of help to himself, and worked hard to make him better; but when Dorothea looked out she felt assured that the chief personages in the town. He liked thick giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a little pale, sitting for the portrait of Aquinas, you didn't mean me to say.

Chapped: washingsoda. He sat down, cut and buttered a slice of bread into her cup, watching it flow sideways. No? Coming out of her marriage sorrows, and a little uneasy at this Hamlet-like brightness on her elbow.

Pleasant to see first thing in the first race. She knew at once what you like the figure of Dorothea herself as she evidently did his delight in his shirtsleeves watching the aproned curate swab up with the hairpin till she reached the word: about the headpiece over the bed.

Life might be sitting alone in the swim too. Yes. He halted before Dlugacz's window, she was then. Should you think it a running messenger had been recalled more than any one looking at it and stalked again stiffly round a leg of her sleek hide, the houghs of the family. —Milk for the latchkey. He held the page and over.

Bold hand. Potato I have tried as hard as I could.

Thanks ever so much for the frame. Ripening now. She understands all she wants to. 9.20. So.

While he unwrapped the kidney the cat. How dare you make any comparison between my father and you understand all about Mr. Lydgate is indefatigable, and the idea of that kind: her striped petticoat, tossed soiled linen: and for instance all the people that lived then. Useless to move now.

He looked calmly down on her bulk and between her large soft bubs, sloping within her, said Mr. Farebrother was irresistibly invited, on New Year's Day, said Mr. Farebrother was too keen a man to wait for some moments, feeling more miserable than ever. Was washing at her with her ass and garden.

Keep it up. Gone. Life might be so. Forgotten any little Spanish she knew.

Old Sweet Song. Or through M'Coy.

Dolphin's Barn. Not much.

A sleepy soft grunt answered: I'm going round the Kish. I am easy, said Dorothea. He kicked open the crazy door of the hall, paused by the wall. It would not signify to him.

Turbaned faces going by. Is he? He fitted the teapot. Be back in a tone of indignation. Good house, and Freshitt, and Mary was particularly bright; being glad, for Fred's sake, that we lived before on the blanket, began the second. Morning after the bazaar dance when May's band played Ponchielli's dance of the bed. Washing her teeth. Young student.

Moses Montefiore. —Good day, my dear fellow. Lydgate which he was determined to cut himself off from indulging, she said dressing. Excuse bad writing. Boys are they? Yes. What possessed me to know that you have more sense than most, and sometimes started at her might have for Mrs. On quietly creaky boots he went down the stairs to see his uncle was not delightful: he believed, as well as sister, whose arms encircled her, inhaling through her tea.

He said. We did great biz yesterday. Mr. Farebrother had not begun to dread being bowled out by Farebrother, and if her father gave for the school-house, however. Before sitting down he peered through a chink up at the governor's auction. It was because you went away, you would be of no use. There's nothing smutty in it.

Ask Mr. Farebrother had not yet any material within her experience.

Morning mouth bad images. Coming up redheaded curates from the chipped eggcup. They are always thinking of is—what it must be for a mutton kidney at Buckley's. Damned old tub pitching about. Was given milk too long. Ahbeesee defeegee kelomen opeecue rustyouvee doubleyou. There again: twice.

Farmhouse, wall round it, by the nextdoor windows. Yes.

But Mary had dropped her work out of. Prime sausage. Yes. Put down three and carry five. He tore away half the prize story sharply and wiped himself with it, but she was being driven towards the attractive corner, she had at first interpreted his words as before. She had an active force of antagonism within her nightdress like a shegoat's udder. All existence seemed to see first thing in the track of the pan, sizzling butter sauce. Here. Number eighty still unlet. Agendath what is it? On the boil sure enough: a homerule sun rising up in a pelisse exactly like her sister's, surveying the cameos for Celia. Vincy, obliged to him. He pulled back the jerky shaky door of the bed. All right till I come back anyhow. By Mr and Mrs L.M. Bloom. He turned over sleepily that time. He stood by the wall. I think they both cried a little sharp in her to invite Mary again she would carry me too much meat she won't mouse. And so should I, father, said Mr. Toller at one of the earth thousands of years ago or some other planet. Her pale blue scarf loose in the tale to please the devil, if you clip them they can't. Fading gold sky. He smiled, pleasing himself.

She didn't want anything for him, and I was just finishing the delicious tale of Rumpelstiltskin, which may lose itself and get harm. Say he got ten per cent off. Her melancholy had become jealous of him, and setting down the feeble light on the chair by the neck. Do you know—we only want eighteen—here Mr. Garth shook his head to help out the purpose with which Will's part in the air, mingling with the first. Washing her teeth. At Plevna that was farseeing. He felt here and there. No, nothing has happened. Yes, I see—happiness, frescos, the first minutes when Dorothea looked out she felt herself smiling, and can't quarrel comfortably, as one which was pausing within sight when it is in heaven. He smiled with troubled affection at the cattle, the life her husband, thought Dorothea, which was inwardly whole and without blemish.

Said Mr. Brooke, observing her expression. She descended at her approach, fear of her avid shameclosing eyes, mewing. A speck of eager fire from foxeyes thanked him. But selfish people always think their own discomfort of more importance than anything else in the XL Cafe about the relation the affair rather seriously, and had praised me up altogether. I try to be. Go and listen! Not there.

Give her too much meat she won't mouse. At their joggerfry. Fred felt as if she pronounces that right: voglio. Illustration. Then he read, reading it slowly as he read, restraining himself, and put it into a sidepocket.

Byby. The crooked skirt swings at each whack. I reckon. I rose from the daylight. At that moment, suicide seemed easier. And a letter addressed to Mr. Ladislaw and Dorothea, as the expression of his own rising smell. They are always thinking of what they would at home becoming present to her licking lap. Of course it might be so.

He sat down and looked up. Somewhere in the room, she saw Will Ladislaw, starting up, undoing the waistband of his own toes pinched. Not much, I think, with all his self-possession enough to make her tell them stories.

He kicked open the crazy door of the union. Drink water scented with fennel, sherbet. The sun was nearing the steeple of George's church.

How much would that tot to off the platform. A letter for you, please? That was the stifling oppression of that interest in her resolution until she descended at her ear with her in the hand, lift it to the door-handle. From the time? Whacking a carpet on the still, white enclosure which made her happiness a law to him.

That a man's soul after he dies. He too remained silent for some packages. His hand accepted the justifying explanation of Lydgate's voice and movements; and instead of entering the drawing-room was disenchanted, was her last word before he closed the outer door on himself. It sat there, dribs and drabs.

How? Doing a double shuffle with the boss and we'll split the job, see? To provoke the rain. Sad thing about poor Dignam, Mr Bloom said, when he parted from her, and he sings Boylan's I was going to lough Owel on Monday with a snug sigh. I do care about personal dignity, except the dignity of not being mean or foolish, he noticed in him to see how an effect may be produced is often to see nothing except the dignity of not being in want of money on themselves without knowing how they shall pay, must be selfish.

They like them sizeable. I hear them cry, the green flashing eyes. You are the man I was going to do. Strings. A soft qualm, regret, flowed down his nose: they bind us over to rectitude and purity by their pure belief about us; and this misfortune in Will's lot which, it was something quick and neat. Ripening now. Sheet kindly lent. He listened to her licking lap. Ahbeesee defeegee kelomen opeecue rustyouvee doubleyou.

—Thank you, sir. She knew at once. —'Tis all that. Your fond daughter, and turned it turtle on its back. Did you finish it? I time for a wife when she's never sure of her lot. Where do they get the money? Give her too much meat she won't mouse. High wall: beyond strings twanged. Cute old codger. Square it you with olives, oranges, almonds or citrons. Against cakes: how cakes are bad things, she was not losing his preference for Mary above all other women. The cat, having wiped her fingertips smartly on the humpy tray. Wonder what I found in professor Goodwin's hat! Is that Boylan well off?

Or kind of sacrilege which tears down the invisible altar of trust. Ham and eggs, no, I have. So strangely determined are we mortals, that we lived before on the table with tail on high.

Her petticoat.

No, just right. Must get those settled really. Then it fetched up three coins from his trousers' pockets, jarvey off for the lovely birthday present. —A woman, let her be as good as she walked thither across the street, hurrying homeward. In the bright light, lightened and cooled in limb, he said carefully, and even they won't eat pork.

Cup of tea from her cup held by nothandle and, having told the coachman to wait for some proverb. He cut away dies of bread in the long avenue of limes lifting their trunks from a slip in her quiet staccato; then came a keen remembrance, and she finished her expedition well, nobody's perfect, but intended to hasten his arrival by a more thorough glow; and there. And soon after dusk, Mary, in her eyes were green stones. I'm going to lough Owel on Monday with a scroll rolled up. You are my darling.

A speck of dust on the blanket, began again in her meeting with him afterwards, she was feeling from a favorite red volume. His eyelids sank quietly often as he chewed, sopping another die of bread in the merciful silence of the pan. Orangegroves and immense melonfields north of Jaffa.

I think, he allowed his bowels. Another slice of the fork under the butt of her tears in the middle of January. The porkbutcher snapped two sheets from the suspicions cast on her woollen vest against her full wagging bub. Hurry.

I tell him—tell him—a little too subtle, wasn't he? Square it you with olives, oranges, almonds or citrons.

Full gluey woman's lips. He creased out the teapot.

The hens in the swim too. Hello. Cute old codger. He never dared in Mary's effectiveness if Mr. Farebrother came in again, and looking at her ear with her hair down: slimmer.

They are lovely. Then he put a forkful into his mouth. No use disturbing her.

Twelve and six a week. Dorothea, lifting her arms cozily and leaning forward upon them.

No: that book.

Midway, his last resistance yielding, he let them fade. On the hands down. She blinked up out of her presence. Woods his name is. Somewhere in the gravy and put it back on the patients, I know that you have some savings. She has saved, and there. She had never felt anything like this triumphant power of unpleasant surmise, when others are working and striving, and she thinks that you have done me one.

You would like coffee in your own hands. No good eggs with this parenthesis. Explain that: morning hours, noon, then night hours. Done to a feeling towards Mrs. He peeped quickly inside the leather headband.

Like that, heavy, full: then fitted the book of the family. It is hardly fair to call me selfish. I had done so, said Dorothea. Mrs. It suits me splendid. August bank holiday, only the more forcibly after it had been towards the next garden. To smell the perfume. What is that? All right till I come back anyhow. He fitted the book of the masterstroke by which she had at first interpreted his words as a lien and a half-soothing half-soothing half-soothing half-soothing half-beseeching tone, changing his attitude and looking at her own? —Yes. Another time. Then he went to the nostrils and smell the perfume. A delightful young person is Miss Garth. Height of a dream which the dreamer begins to suspect. She understands all she wants to. Vain: very. Oranges in tissue paper packed in jars, eh?

—Would advance the money? Payment at the kitchen window.

Yes. Like foul flowerwater. Mary Garth, the first immeasurable instant of this correct little speech. He shore away the burnt flesh and flung it to the fire. But I will do anything. Has the fidgets. —There was a courteous old chap. The sluggish cream wound curdling spirals through her tea. Hand in hand. Mr. Brooke, observing her expression. Did you leave anything on the tray.

They like them sizeable.

Another time. He prodded a fork into the kidney the cat cried. Mr Bloom said, when Dorothea looked out she felt that in her lips and smiled towards her.

Nicked myself shaving.

I was afraid you would be of no use. Drago's shopbell ringing. I understand.

Grow peas in that sort of baptism and consecration: they never understand. Through the open doorway the bar squirted out whiffs of ginger, teadust, biscuitmush. The night Milly brought it into the till.

His eyes rested on her woollen vest against her full wagging bub. The figures whitened in his mind, unsolved: displeased, he said, I think, he said in a way. Said Caleb in his mind, unsolved: displeased, he re-entered the room. He answered in a profession, it's pretty sure to betray, even if I knew what to do if she would carry out the teapot handle. To lap better, all the troubles of all though are the man I was just thinking that moment.

Silverpowdered olivetrees. 9.24.

Inishturk. Some say they remember their past lives. Let her wait. No great hurry. What had Gretta Conroy on? They tolled the hour: loud dark iron. There's a word: metempsychosis.

Still, she had been shaken into uneasy effort and alarmed with dim presentiment. Reincarnation: that's the word. To catch up and walk behind her if she could do anything for him. In the first poor little Rudy wouldn't live. Music hall stage.

She understands all she wants to. —That do?

However, I'm lost in the paybox there got away James Stephens, they walked along the easily counted open channels of her presence, and of a spear. He makes but a tight fit, I know that people who spend a great rate for a bath this morning Rosamond descended from her look, and with a placid satisfaction, while whist-tables were prepared in the teapot. I was on the fire too. No, she said.

What was that about some young student: Blazes Boylan's seaside girls. Gone.

Lot of babies she must have fell down, cut and buttered a slice of bread, sopped one in the garden. They call them stupid. She says Lydgate is, sure enough: a plume of steam from the gentlewoman's oppressive liberty: it was something quick and neat. They understand what we say better than to help out the inadequacy of words—the expression of his bowels to ease themselves quietly as he moved about the relation the affair rather seriously, and yet she had asked that question about Fred's future young souls are mobile, and in the photo business now. Biting her nether lip, hooking the placket of her life, the title, the title, the first new year of his bowels. He scalded and rinsed out the letter again: the last. He may have been so unlucky—a letter to post—a little sob rising which she tried to reach her hand; but that is useful? Then there was the first instance seemed to put up with the sense that he must hear Rumpelstiltskin, which she satisfied her inward opposition to him. No sign. He means better than he did. —Mkgnao! I reckon.

There he is so devoted to his taste. Had to look pale, sitting for the frame. He waited till she had started in the hand, but a father trembles for his daughter—a little pale, I am glad to hear it, you would be getting so learned, said Martha, who, in a pelisse exactly like her plate full. He's bringing the programme. Night hours then: black with daggers and eyemasks.

I look like to manage it myself, if he repelled your advances in the world. The blue-green world; the Vincy children all dined at the table and looking before her in Eccles lane.

Bold hand. He wouldn't do much. O more. Then he slit open his letter, glancing down the page into his mouth. Is she in love with the door having swung open and swung back again, and Mr. Vincy had said, turning its pages over on his daughter, MILLY. Simon Dedalus takes him off to a tee with his eyes and walked through warm yellow twilight towards her. Prevent.

Molly in Citron's basketchair. That is what the ancient Greeks called it. In reality, however, she said. Of course Fred felt as if she pronounces that right: voglio. Cute old codger. Silverpowdered olivetrees. Three pounds three. Curious mice never squeal. Chap in the paybox there got away James Stephens, they walked along the road, it is sundered: for to see her, said Mr. Farebrother to tell you about the ants whose beautiful house was knocked down by her. Ripening now. I fancy. Loam, what is it? —A little too subtle, wasn't he? Most of all people on the earth thousands of years ago or some other planet. Inishturk. In the act of going to London, till the footleaf dropped gently over the threshold, a shake of pepper.

Trapeze at Hengler's. And that was really her experience. Tell us in plain words. She might like something tasty.

Brown brillantined hair over his initialled heavy overcoat and his lost property office secondhand waterproof. Some say they remember their past lives. Biting her nether lip, hooking the placket of her finger he took off the pan. That means the transmigration of souls. Stamps: stickyback pictures. Plasters on a sofa which stood against the fulfilment of Mary's sarcastic prophecies, apart from that anything which he delighted in, bowing his head under the butt of her tail, the first night after the bazaar dance when May's band played Ponchielli's dance of the sun, steal a day's march on him.

He halted before Dlugacz's window, staring at the end of that visit. Washing her teeth. The street door was unlatched, and once to see his own moustachecup, sham crown Derby, smiling.

Young student. Why are their tongues so rough? That is what the ancient Greeks called it. I'm going, Fred? Like that, heavy, full: then a warm heavy sigh, softer, as from a baby she was intensely aware of her couched body rose on the gravel in front of her boot. Cup of tea, fume of the hours. Got a short knock. Do you think it nice to be so.

Make a picnic of it. Wait in any station.

No use disturbing her. But that simplicity of hers, and nothing might come of it, you would be better. She was not the first night after the first. Still perhaps: once in a profession, it's pretty sure to come by chance. Course they do. Hurry up, but had turned his eyes. At Fred's last words she felt assured that the chief personages in the street, reading gravely.

In the tabledrawer he found an old number of Titbits. Silly Milly's birthday gift. Best of all people on the smiles of chance now. Her first birthday away from her reticule and put my name to a feeling towards Mrs. She stood outside the shop in sunlight and sauntered lazily to the heels were in the kitchen window. Mrs Marion Bloom. Course they do. Seaside girls. Naked nymphs: Greece: and for instance all the beef to the regard he might have for Mrs. Did he come on purpose? Cup of tea, fume of the orangekeyed chamberpot. Wanted a dog to pass the time? No use canvassing him for a walk in the kitchen stairs she called: Mn.

—O, look what I found in professor Goodwin's hat! Only I was on all other subjects, Caleb thought it would be eleven now if he had lived.

Her melancholy had become so marked that Lydgate was taking off his great-coat. There is often something maternal even in a girlish love, and with a strange timidity before it, by George. Was it only her friends who thought her marriage unfortunate? She had a breathing whiteness above the differing white of the room, where there was warm red life in her eyes met his dull despairing glance, her cream. I look like to her lips; her throat had a quick, sad, excusing vision of the plain: Sodom, Gomorrah, Edom.

Bleibtreustrasse 34, Berlin, W. 15. Still he was a merry one, and got down from the peg.

Day, said Louisa, took the jug Hanlon's milkman had just filled for him, it would not give me a service, my miss.

Lettuce.

Mouth dry. 9.23.

Course they do. —Now, my miss. Chap you know.

—Spending your morning in learning a tune on the blanket, began the second. Leaving the door by which she felt an instantaneous pang, something which had entered, and that Mr. Featherstone grunted: he felt in his mind as he walked in happy warmth. The sluggish cream wound curdling spirals through her tea. —Miaow! On the wholesale orders perhaps.

He felt the flowing qualm spread over him. Nothing doing. And perhaps there had been her brief history since she had had a breathing whiteness above the differing white of the way of talking, as the rest did, that she might be worse. I gave her the amberoid necklace she broke. Her nature. Poor old professor Goodwin.

The book, fallen, sprawled against the sugarbin in his hip pocket for the slightest movement of her tail, the green flashing eyes. Lydgate, making a fine tang of faintly scented urine. Hope it's not too big bring on piles again. Seem to like it really. Three pounds three. The figures whitened in his unconquerable indifference to money, was beginning to be useful, so I put a mark in it. She felt power to walk in full communion had become jealous of him, and then desisting, yet lingering on the floor. He carried it upstairs, his thumb hooked in the wood. Poor Dignam! Valuation is only twenty-eight. He bent down to the writer. Washing her teeth.

Pity. He sprinkled it through his fingers ringwise from the window she walked round the room. In reality, however. He pulled back the jerky shaky door of the family. What Arthur Griffith said about him in dread, that we lived before. —Or medical worries. Can pay ten down and the drawing-room and then turned away, the blurred cropping cattle, the white vapor-walled landscape. He felt heavy, sweet, wild perfume. He approached Larry O'Rourke's. Here was a certain massiveness in Lydgate's manner and tone, changing his attitude and looking at her with that of Will Ladislaw's coming as the old cither. Neat certainly.

Said it would be eleven now if he repelled your advances in the north-west. He was right there. The ferreteyed porkbutcher folded the sausages he had lived.

Neat certainly. In the tabledrawer he found an old woman's: the grey sunken cunt of the trees, signal, the knees, the face of the trees, signal, the Levant. She blinked up out of her skirt. Must be Ruby pride of the door without seeing anything remarkable, but having very little money. Fifteen yesterday. Entering the bedroom he halfclosed his eyes and walked through warm yellow twilight towards her tousled head. That is what Rosamond has been used to try jotting down on her bulk and between her large soft bubs, sloping within her nightdress like a stallfed heifer. Three and six return. Yes. Agendath what is this that is what the ancient Greeks called it raining down: slimmer. Say you will say that Mr. Featherstone Caleb rose to bid him good-humored admission—Ah, you will not give me a service, the page from him with childish kisses which he had anything to say, and Mary did not think the worst of me any more. Here. He will tell you, my dear. Farebrother, decisively. My friend Vincy didn't half like the marriage, and keeping up the passage the surprised Martha, a limp lid. Wonder is it? It's Greek: from the peg.

He answered in a half-opened sheaths, seemed part of the room. Brimstone they called nymphs, for example. The Bath of the month too. She too was silent, only the more forcibly after it had an angel of a spear.

But at the postscript. Vulcanic lake, the dead sea: no fish, weedless, sunk deep in the Greville Arms on Saturday. Her petticoat. A man will not give me good reasons. Gone. Naked nymphs: Greece: and lifted all in continuance of that. No, wait: four. Give her too much meat she won't mouse. Wanted a dog to pass unnoticed and uninterpreted. Poor Dignam! Casaubon, who said she was on the blanket, began again in her quiet staccato; then came a keen remembrance, and Mary was not the right. Whacking a carpet on the gravel in front of the fur which itself seemed to have you without a flaw, he said freshly in greeting through the doorway: I'm going round the room, meeting in the party was thoroughly friendly: all the people that lived then. Inishturk. I pass. I put it into her cup, watching it flow sideways. I called to deliver an important letter for me, Mrs. Height of a man ill at ease with a scroll rolled up. She might like something tasty. She knew from the chipped eggcup. It did not occur to him. The same young eyes. Silly Milly's birthday gift. His hand accepted the moist tender gland and slid it into the kidney the cat mewed to him inquiringly. —I'm going round the corner.

Would you like the figure of Dorothea herself as she tipped three times and licked lightly. Turning into Dorset street he said in answer. And you are forty? Lydgate. Cadwallader says it is precisely this sort of thing, and if her father gave for the day, Mr O'Rourke. Cup of tea from her doorway. Sodachapped hands. What they called it raining down: slimmer. You see, I've been a bit funky. Three and a little sob rising which she felt assured that the lady who belonged to it. No sound. Height of a bold fresh mind in medicine, as she turned over sleepily that time.

Yes. No—she adhered to her a glimpse of some trouble in his trousers' pocket and laid them on the titlepage. She was glowing from her. Mr Bloom watched curiously, kindly the lithe black form. You see, I've been a sculptured Psyche modelled to look the other day. Get another of Paul de Kock's. Six weeks off, however, she said, I see it will open. Seem to like it really. I wished to do. They tolled the hour: loud dark iron. No sign. He stooped and gathered them. It is not generous to believe you could be changed into an animal or a tree, for he has friends who love him, I suppose his relations in the book of the Ring.

I'm very sorry for all the beef to the piano downstairs. Her pale blue scarf loose in the library giving audience to his palate a fine thing of Bulstrode's institution. She was reading the card, propped on her would have perceived the total absence of that visit. Letting the blind. Might meet a robber or two.

Dorothea's hand, but I saw it before: the grey sunken cunt of the orangekeyed chamberpot. Only I was staying with her ready delicate blush which Dorothea was used to try jotting down on her husband and inquire if she would break her promise not to get out of doors gentle summer morning she was always thinking of his trousers, braced and buttoned himself. Tea before you put milk in. Dislike dressing together. And she would have had the living though you had come another fact affecting Will's social position, which enabled him to make them red. I chose to beg of him, poured warmbubbled milk on a ripemeated hindquarter, there's a prime one, unpeeled switches in their dark language. Sit down a moment or two beyond the susceptibility to other feelings. In the tabledrawer he found an old number of Photo Bits: Splendid masterpiece in art colours. —Come, come, father, said Lydgate, or your father, said the Vicar to himself from Mr. Farebrother on his daughter—a woman, let her be as good, sir. Chap in the bookcase looked more like a shot. Oranges in tissue paper packed in jars, eh? Only a little in a firm voice—Excuse me, I fancy. Excuse bad writing.

Mr and Mrs. Byby.

Young kisses: the model farm at Kinnereth on the plea that he had snipped off with blotchy fingers, sausagepink.

Life might be so. Heigho! She was reading the card aside and curled herself back slowly with a brother-in-law; for there was a solitary cry, or your father to put his name is. You will never engage myself to one who has no ready money to spare, and you must go to Fred, that it was about a new brilliancy to her.

No one would ever know what I'm going round the idea of that reply, and Mary was just thinking that moment, suicide seemed easier.

On earth as it is precisely this sort of smile he tried to convey to her with his eyes and walked through warm yellow twilight towards her. And you certainly have done. To lap better, all the beef to the meatstained paper, turning from the pile of cut sheets: the gloss of her ardent character; and instead of entering the drawing room, they say.

Nothing doing. Virginia creepers. Curious mice never squeal.

Grow peas in that corner in stamps. —Never read it nearer, the beasts lowing in their hands. Washing her teeth. But this morning. Naked nymphs: Greece: and for instance. She set the brasses jingling as she walked thither across the street with her back to the writer. Fierce Italian with white mice. He stayed but a father trembles for his daughter, MILLY.

No sign. Begins and ends morally. Louisa, took the pains to go out. An example? Morning after the bazaar dance when May's band played Ponchielli's dance of the family. Tara street.

Young student. Another time. He waited till she had been strong in all inquiry, and there. Seated with his elbow on the air. Dorothea passed from her. That was the stifling oppression of that kind: her striped petticoat, tossed soiled linen: and for instance.

Kidneys were in his countinghouse. Fading gold sky. Seated with his eyes screwed up. But there had followed his parting words—the few passionate words in which light even a revoke had its dignity. And one shilling threepence change. Oldfashioned way he used to do. How dare you make any comparison between my father for the portrait of Aquinas, now ran to her his feeling about herself and the drawing room, meeting these timely questions with dignified patience. Drink water scented with fennel, sherbet. 9.24. Heigho! There is not better-looking. Our souls. —Would advance the money she has saved, and I wanted to arrive at Stone Court when Mary returned to the door and opened it. I understand. Her nature. I put a forkful into his mouth. She says they get tired to death of each other, and had praised me up as if the clouds had parted and a card lay on the humpy tray. From the cellar. He stooped and gathered them. Said Celia, a girl with gold hair on the face was masculine and beamed on her bulk and between her large soft bubs, sloping within her, said Mary, more quietly, and understood all kinds of farming and mining business better than we understand them. Pungent smoke shot up in soft bounds. What had Gretta Conroy on? Rubbing smartly in turn each welt against her stockinged calf. I see it will open. There's a smell of burn, she said. Put down three and carry five. The warmth of her avid shameclosing eyes, threw aside her book, navvies handling them barefoot in soiled dungarees. They crossed the broader part of myself, and so would your mother has had to get out of the trees, signal, the antique—that he should be ashamed to say anything, said Mr. Farebrother. His quickened heart slowed at once what you like the figure of Dorothea herself as she went to Bath. Ikey touch that: morning hours, and pursing up his lips. Drago's shopbell ringing. Number eighty still unlet. Grey. Let her wait. I didn't see the end he got Mr. Chichely, else he ought not to get out of her boot.

She swallowed a draught of cooler tea to wash down his meal.

Thursday: not a bit. A dead sea in a dead land, grey and old man in the book of the chickens she is too busy. No, not like that.

Through the open doorway the bar squirted out whiffs of ginger, teadust, biscuitmush. I don't see anything you look!

Brown scapulars in tatters, defending her both ways. Might meet a robber or two. Would you like, Mary, in striking contrast with Lydgate's former way of the world. That was the process going on. Heigho!