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    Monday, January 3rd, 2011
    2:38 am
    @@@@@ And there are anglesLefty Rizzo, the big
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    And there are anglesLefty Rizzo, the big kid, fourteen, runs the joint when Pfeiffer or one of the Sisters or Fathers ain't aroundYou gotta pal up wit' him, or you don't get anywhere
    What can I do for ya, Lefty? (Polack at the age of ten
    Lefty is talkin' to his lieutenants
    Aaah, what for? Wha'd I do to you?
    Beat it
    He walks through the dormitory, scanning the fifty beds, the half-opened lockers
    In one of them is an apple, four pennies, and a little crucifixHe cops the cross, saunters back to Lefty's bunk
    Hey, Lefty, I got somethin' for ya
    What the hell I want with that?
    Give it to Sister Catherine, a present
    Lefty considers thisWhere'd you get it?
    I hooked it from Callahan's bunkHe ain't gonna yell though, y' just tell him to shat up
    I coulda hooked it myself
    I saved ya da trouble
    Lefty laughs, and Polack is made

    There are obligations, howeverLefty likes to smoke, and he can get away with a half-pack after lights out without getting caughtEvery other night, the cigarette detail goes out for Lefty
    The four kids sneak out to the wall of the orphanage in the evening, and two of them are hoisted overThey drop to the pavement outside, walk for two blocks to the shopping street and loiter beside the newspaper rack of the candy store
    Polack walks inside to the cigarette counter
    Whadeya want, kiddo? the candy store man saysHe looks out the doo
    2:26 am
    @@@@@A bunch of college kids who think it's like
    @@@@@A bunch of college kids who think it's like going to a football gameThat bastard is glad to be going out on thisDeep within him a passionate hatred was brewing for everyone in the Army who endangered his lifeWhat the hell is it to the General if we get knocked off? Just an experiment that got fugged-up
    Stanley amused him, roused his ironyHis emotions finally boiled into speech"Hey, Stanley, you think they'll give you a Silver Star?"
    Stanley looked at him, tensing instantly
    "Just wait, sonny," Red saidHe guffawed loudly and turned to Gallagher"They'll give him the Purple Ass-hole
    "Listen, Red," Stanley said, trying to edge some menace into his voiceHe knew that Croft was watching him
    "Aaah," Red snortedHe didn't want to fight at allHis back, even when it did not ache, left him weak and lethargicHe realized abruptly that he and Stanley had changed in the few months they had been on Anopopei; Stanley looked fatter and sleeker, more self-assuredRed felt the tired leanness of his own bodyBecause of all this, because of his doubt, his pride made him go on"You're biting off more than you can take, Stanley
    "What's the matter, you ganging up with Gallagher?"
    Gallagher was frightened again, unwilling to be involvedIn the past weeks he had drawn in upon himself, become passiveHis occasional bursts of rage left him apatheticYet he could not withdraw now; Red was one of his best buddies"Red don't need to gang up with me," he muttered
    "You guys think you're pretty tough 'cause you been around a little longer than me
    Sunday, January 2nd, 2011
    2:38 am
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    country full of Irish if this was what they were likeIf she heard
    "Wearing o' the Green" one more time she'd scream"You're just not
    taken with the American New-Rich, Scarlett darling," Colum soothed
    "You're a grand lady, that's why It was exactly the right thing for
    him to sayA grand lady was what she had to be after this vacation
    was overShe'd omega deville watch have this final fling of freedom and then she'd go to
    Charleston, put on her drab clothes and company manners, and be a
    lady
    for the rest of her lifeAt least now when Miss Eleanor and everybody
    else in Charleston talked about their trips to Europe before the War,
    she'd not feel so left outShe wouldn't say she'd disliked it,
    eitherLadies didn't say things like cartier womens thatUnconsciously, Scarlett
    sighed"Ach, Scarlett darling, it can't be as bad as all that," Colum
    said"Look at the bright sideYou're cleaning out their deep
    pockets at the card tableShe was winning a fortune-some evenings
    as
    much as thirty dollarsWait till she told Rhett! How he'd laugh
    He'd been a gambler on Mississippi riverboats for a while, after all
    Come to think of it, it was a good prada milano thing, really, that there was still
    a week at seaShe wouldn't have to touch a penny of Rhett's money
    Scarlett's attitude toward money was a complex mixture of miserliness
    and generosityIt had been her measure of safety for so many years
    that she guarded every penny of her hard-earned fortune with angry
    suspicion of anyone who made any real or imagined demands for a
    dollar
    of vintage omega watches itAnd yet she accepted the responsibility to support her aunts
    and Melanie's family without questionShe had taken care of them
    even
    when she didn't know where she'd find the means to take care of
    herselfIf some unforeseen calamity befell, she would continue to
    take care of them, even if it meant that she had to go hungryShe
    didn't think about it; it was simply the way things dolce sale
    2:26 am
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    louis vuitton pink,Prada Purse,black quilted bag,seamaster omega,fendi sale@@@@@As if he, too, were back in the early
    days when they were friends"I'm not trying to outwit anybody,
    Rhett,
    just make an honest deal, that's all"You? Make an
    honest deal? You disappoint me, ScarlettAre you losing your
    touch?"
    "Honestly! I don't know why you have to talk so uglyYou know very
    well I wouldn't take advantage of the Church Scarlett's prim outrage
    made louis vuitton pink Rhett laugh even more"I don't know anything of the kind," he
    said"Tell me the truth, is this why you've been trotting off to Mass
    every Sunday rattling your beads? Have you been planning this all
    along?"
    "No I haven'tI can't imagine why it took me so long to think of
    it
    Scarlett covered her mouth with her handHow did Rhett do it? He
    always could surprise her into Prada Purse telling more than she meant toShe
    lowered her hand and scowled at him"Well? Are you going to help
    me
    or not?"
    "I'm willing to help, but I don't see how I canWhat if the Mother
    Superior turns you down? Will you still stay through the Season?"
    "I said I would, didn't I? Besides, there's no reason for her to turn
    me downI'm going to offer much more than Will can black quilted bag possibly send
    her
    You can use your influence
    You know everybody in the world, you can always get things done"What touching faith you have in me, ScarlettI know
    every rascal and crooked politician and dishonest businessman within
    a
    thousand miles, but I have no influence at all with the good people in
    this worldThe best I can do for you is give you a little advice
    Don't seamaster omega try to pull the wool over the lady's eyes
    Tell her the truth if you can, and agree to anything she asks
    "What a ninny you are, Rhett Butler! Nobody pays asking price except
    a
    foolThe convent doesn't really need money anyhowThey've got
    that
    big house and all the sisters work for no wages and there are gold
    candlesticks and a big gold cross on the altar in the fendi sale chapel
    Saturday, January 1st, 2011
    2:38 am
    @@@@@Sharon will run from anyone but me–well, she
    @@@@@Sharon will run from anyone but me–well, she will run from me, too,
    but maybe she will pause long enough for me to explainI am sure I know her secret place
    “And you?” I ask him in a thick voiceI'm not sure I can physically bear this looming goodbye
    “Will you be safe?”
    “Neither heaven nor hell can keep me apart from you, Melanie
    Without giving me a chance to catch my breath or wipe away the fresh tears, she threw another
    at me
    Jamie curls up under my arm–he doesn't fit the way he used toHe has to fold in on himself, his
    long, gangly limbs poking out in sharp anglesHis arms are starting to turn hard and sinewy, but
    in this moment he's a child, shaking, cowering almostJared is loading the carJamie would not
    show this fear if he were hereJamie wants to be brave, to be like Jared
    “I'm scared,” he whispers
    I kiss his night-dark hairEven here among the sharp, resinous trees, it smells like dust and sun
    It feels like he is part of me, that to separate us will tear the skin where we are joined
    “You'll be fine with Jared I have to sound brave, whether I feel that way or notI'm scared you won't come backWhen Dad didn't come back–though his body did eventually, trying to lead the Seekers
    to us–it was the most horror and the most fear and the most pain I'd ever feltWhat if I do that
    to Jamie again?
    “I'll come back
    “I'm scared,” he says again
    “I promise everything will be fineYou know I won't break a
    promise, Jamie
    And another:
    I can hear them on the floor below
    2:26 am
    @@@@@“And you would be foolish to withhold
    @@@@@“And you would be foolish
    to withhold anythingYou won’t, you’re too soft, too young Carlos whipped the man to the
    ground, the tall grass bending under the fallHe withdrew his flashlight and knelt beside his
    captive, the knife going toward the agent’s eyes
    The bloodied, lifeless figure below had spoken his last words, and they were words that
    reverberated like kettledrums in the ears of Ilich Ramirez SanchezJason Bourne was in Moscow! It
    had to be Bourne, for the terrified, youthful KGB surveillant had blurted out the information in a
    gushing, panicked stream of phrases and half phrases, saying anything and everything that might
    possibly save his lifeComrade Krupkin—two Americans, one tall, the other with a limp! We took
    them to the hotel, then to the Sadovaya for a conference
    Krupkin and the hated Bourne had turned his people in Paris—in Paris, his impenetrable armed
    camp!—and had traced him to MoscowIt did not matter nowAll that mattered
    was that the Chameleon himself was at the Metropole; the traitors in Paris could waitAt the
    Metropole! His enemy of enemies was barely an hour away back in Moscow, no doubt sleeping the
    night away, without any idea that Carlos the Jackal knew he was thereThe assassin felt the
    exhilaration of triumph—over life and deathThe doctors said he was dying, but doctors were as
    often wrong as they were right, and at this moment they were wrong! The death of Jason Bourne
    would renew his life
    However, the hour was not rightThree o’clock in the morning was not the time to be seen
    prowling the streets or the hotels in search of a kill in Moscow, a city in the grip of permanent
    suspicion, darkness itself contributing to its warinessIt was common knowledge that the nightfloor
    stewards in the major hotels were armed, selected as much for their marksmanship as for their
    aptitude for serviceDaylight brought a relaxation of the night’s concerns; the bustling activity of
    the early morning was the time to strike—and strike he would
    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
    381
    But the hour was right for another kind of strike, at least the prelude to itThe time had come to
    call together his disciples in the Soviet government and let them know the monseigneur had
    arrived, that their personal messiah was here to set them freeBefore leaving Paris he had collected
    the dossiers, and the dossiers behind those dossiers, all seemingly innocuous pages of blank paper
    in file folders until they were exposed to infrared light, the heat waves bringing up the typewritten
    scriptHe had selected a small deserted store in the Vavilova for his meeting groundHe would
    reach each of his people by public telephone and instruct them to be there by 5:30, all taking back
    streets and alleyways to the rendezvousBy 6:30 his task would be finished, each disciple armed
    with the information that would elevate him—and her—to the highest ranks of Moscow’s eliteIt
    was one more invisible army, far smaller than Paris, but equally effective and as dedicated to
    Carlos, the unseen monseigneur who made life infinitely more comfortable for his convertsAnd by
    7:30, the mighty Jackal would be in place at the Metropole, ready for the early movements of
    awakening guests, the time for the rushing trays and tables of room-service waiters and the hectic
    confusion of a lobby alive with chatter, anxiety and bureaucr
    Friday, December 31st, 2010
    2:38 am
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    the walk leaning against the side of the houseI
    looked at it and my right arm began to itchI
    lifted my right hand and held it in front of my
    eyesIt wasn't there, but when I opened it and
    closed it, I could feel it flexI could also feel
    a couple of long nails biting into my palmThe
    others felt chanel logo short and raggedThey must have
    broken offSomewhere - perhaps on the carpet
    upstairs in Little Pink - were a couple of ghost
    fingernails
    "Go away," I told it"I don't want you anymore,
    go away and be deadLike the arm to which it
    had once been attached, the hand itched and
    throbbed and ached and refused to leave me
    "Then go find my daughter," I said, and the tears
    began to flow"Bring gucci horsebit hobo her back, why don't you?
    Bring her to meI'll paint anything you want,
    just bring her to meI was just a one-armed man with a phantom
    itchThe only ghost was his own, drifting around
    just over his head, observing all this
    The creeping in my flesh grew worseI picked the
    broom up, weeping now not just from grief but also
    from the horrible discomfort of that unreachable
    itch, then Chanel Necklaces realized I couldn't do what I needed to
    do - a one-armed man can't snap a broomhandle over
    his kneeI leaned it against the house again and
    stomped it with my good legThere was a snap, and
    the bristle end went flyingI held the jagged end
    up in front of my streaming eyes and nodded
    I went around the corner of the house toward the
    beach, a distant part of my mind registering the
    loud cartier love conversation of the shells beneath Big Pink
    912
    as the waves dashed into the darkness there and
    then withdrew
    I had one fleeting thought as I reached the wet
    and shining hardpack, dotted here and there with
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    to Wireman was You will want to, but you mustn't
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    2:26 am
    @@@@@ Nevertheless, it happens to be the truth,
    @@@@@
    Nevertheless, it happens to be the truth, and the
    truth deserves to be spokenif you can say it
    in a new wayI tried to put it in a picture
    Alice, could we have the first slide, please?"
    It shone out on the large screen to my right, nine
    feet wide and seven feet high: a trio of gigantic
    lush roses growing from a bed of dark pink shells
    They were dark because they were below the house,
    in the shadow of the houseThe audience drew in
    its breath, a sound like a brief but loud gust of
    windI heard that and knew it wasn't just Wireman
    and the folks at the Scoto who understood
    They gasped the way people do when they have been
    blindsided by something completely unexpected
    Then they began to applaudIt went on for almost
    a full minuteI stood there gripping the left
    side of the podium, listening, dazed
    593
    The rest of the presentation took about twentyfive
    minutes, but I remember very little of itI
    was like a man conducting a slide-show in a dream
    I kept expecting to wake up in my hospital bed,
    hot and shot through with pain, roaring for
    morphine
    xii
    That dreamlike feeling persisted through the postlecture
    reception at the ScotoI had no sooner
    finished my first glass of champagne (bigger than
    a thimble, but not much) before a second was
    thrust into my handI was toasted by people I
    didn't knowThere were shouts of "Hear, hear!"
    and one cry of "Maestro!" I looked around for my
    new friends and didn't see them anywhere
    Not that there was much time to lookThe
    congratulations seemed endless, both on my talk
    and on the slidesAt least I didn't have to deal
    with any extended critiques of my technique,
    because the actual paintings (plus a few sketches
    in colored pencil for good measure) were
    squirreled away in two of the large back rooms,
    594
    safely under lock and keyAnd the secret of
    avoiding getting smashed at your reception if
    you're a one-armed man, I was discovering, was to
    constantly keep a bacon-wrapped shrimp in your
    remaining paw
    Mary Ire came by and asked if we were still on for
    our interview"Although I don't know what else I
    can tell youI think I said it all this even
    Thursday, December 30th, 2010
    2:38 am
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    long as she remained single, was highly agreeable; and her chief
    anxiety was lest Mansfield should not satisfy the habits of a young
    woman who had been mostly used to London
    Miss Crawford was not entirely free from similar apprehensions,
    though they arose principally from doubts of her sister’s style of
    living and tone of society; and it was not till after she had tried in
    vain to persuade her brother to settle with her at his own country
    house, that she could resolve to hazard herself among her other relations
    To anything like a permanence of abode, or limitation of society,
    Henry Crawford had, unluckily, a great sale gucci handbags dislike: he could not
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    escorted her, with the utmost kindness, into Northamptonshire, and
    as readily engaged to fetch her away again, at half an hour’s notice,
    whenever she were weary of the place
    The meeting was very satisfactory on each sideMiss Crawford
    found a sister without preciseness or rusticity, a sister’s husband who
    looked the gentleman, and a house commodious and well fitted up;
    and MrsGrant received in those whom she hoped to love better
    than ever a young man and woman of very prepossessing appearance
    Mary Crawford was remarkably pretty; Henry, though not
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    object; and having never been able to glory in beauty of her own,
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    had not waited her arrival to look out for a suitable match for her:
    she had fixed on Tom Bertram; the eldest son of a baronet was not
    too good for a girl of twenty thousand pounds, with all the elegance
    and accomplishments which MrsGrant foresaw in her; and being
    a warm-hearted, unreserved woman, Mary had not been three hours
    in the house before she told her what she had planned
    Miss Crawford was glad to find a family of such consequence so
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    to his situation in lifeWhile she treated it as a joke, therefore, she
    did not forget to think of it seriouslyThe scheme was soon repeated
    to Henry
    “And now,” added MrsGrant, “I have thought of something to
    make it completeI should dearly love to settle you both in this
    country; and therefore, Henry, you shall marry the youngest Miss
    Bertram, a nice, handsome, good-humoured, accomplished girl, who
    will make you very happy
    Henry bowed and thanked her
    “My dear sister,” said Mary, “if you fake louis vuitton bags can persuade him into anything
    of the sort, it will be a fresh matter of delight to me to find
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    have not half a dozen daughters to dispose ofIf you can persuade
    Henry to marry, you must have the address of a FrenchwomanAll
    that English abilities can do has been tried alreadyI have three very
    particular friends who have been all dying for him in their turn; and
    the pains which they, their mothers (very clever women), as well as
    my dear aunt and myself, have taken to reason, coax, or trick him
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    2:26 am
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    Then she added: "Now I know I can choose a profession for the work I want to perform and not because of job security, benefits or howmuch I get paidIf I learn what this game teaches, I'm free to do and study what my heart wants to studyather than study something because businesses are looking for certain job skillsIf I learn this, I won't have to worry about job security and Social Security the gucci fabric way most of my classmates already do
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    My husband and I set up a dinner meeting with Robert and his wife within the next weekAlthough it was our first social get-together, we felt as if we had known each other for years
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    Robert's primary concern was the chloe dior growing gap between the haves and have nots, in America and around the worldA self-taught, self-made entrepreneur who traveled the world putting investments together, Robert was able to retire at the age of 47He came out of retirement because he shares the same concern I have for my own childrenHe knows that the world has changed, but education has not changed with itAccording to Robert, children spend years in an antiquated educational system, studying subjects they will never use, balenciaga handbag preparing for a world that no longer exists
    "Today, the most dangerous advice you can give a child is `Go to school, get good grades and look for a safe secure job,' " he likes to say"That is old advice, and it's bad adviceIf you could see what is happening in Asia, Europe, South America, you would be as concerned as I am
    It's bad advice, he believes, "because if you want your child to have a financially secure future, they can't play by the old set of rules
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    Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
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    2:26 am
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    @@@@@IS IN THE STAR DUST OF A SONG
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    NoA momentary anger toward all the othersThey have time to dance, time to become lawyers, time to become smoothBut it passes, is uncharacteristic, and he is merely uncomfortable again
    Excuse me, Lucille, he says to the hostess, but I have to go now, got to get up early, convey my fondest apologies to your mother
    And back inside his house at the socially rejected hour of ten-thirty, he sits with his mother, drinks a glass of hot tea on the eroded white porcelain table, is obviously moody
    What's the matter, Joey?
    NothingAnd it is unbearable that she knowsTomorrow I got a lot of work, he says
    At the shoe factory they should appreciate you more, all the work you do

    He tilts the carton off the floor, gets his knee back of it, and zooms it up over his head, lofting it onto the top of the seven-foot pileBeside him the new man is wrestling it up clumsily
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    But there is a party at last, a girl to whom he can talk, a pretty dark-haired little girl with a soft shy voice and an attractive mole on her chin of which she is self-consciousA year or two younger than he, just out of high school, and she wants to be an actress or a poetessShe makes him listen to the symphonies of Tchaikovsky (the Fifth is her favorite) and she is reading Look Homeward, Angel, works as a salesgirl in a woman's store
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    Monday, December 27th, 2010
    2:38 am
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    @@@@@Devlin himself admitted that he had no
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    Particularly when there was something she really had to doFitz
    had told her about the old woman who had appeared, as if by magic,
    to
    deliver Cat in the middle of the Halloween tempestColum had told
    her
    who the woman was-the coilleach from the towerScarlett owed the
    wise
    woman her life, and Cat'sThe cold took
    Scarlett by surpriseOctober had been warm enough, how could one
    month make so much difference? She wrapped the folds of her cloak
    around the well-blanketed babyHer large eyes
    looked
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    "You're so good, Cat, you never cry, do you?" She walked through the
    bricked stableyard to the route she'd used so often in the trap"I
    know you're there someplace," Scarlett shouted at the thicket of
    undergrowth beneath the trees that bordered the tower's clearing
    "You might as well come on out and talk to me, because I'm going to
    stand right here freezing to death until you doThe baby, too, if
    that matters to you She waited confidentlyThe woman who had
    brought Cat into the world would never let her be exposed for long to
    the cold damp in the shadow of the towerCat's eyes left Scarlett's
    face to move from side to side as if she were looking for somethingA
    few minutes later Scarlett heard a rustling in the thick growth of
    holly bushes to her rightThe wise woman stepped out between two
    of
    them"This way," she said, and stepped back
    There was a path, Scarlett saw when she got nearShe'd never have
    found it if the wise woman hadn't held back the spiny holly branches
    with one of her shawlsScarlett followed the path until it
    disappeared in a grove of low-branched trees"I give up," she said,
    "where to now?" There was a rusty laugh behind her"This way,"
    said
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    Saturday, December 25th, 2010
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    Wireman gave him a duh look, then turned to me
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    xii
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    951
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    "I didn't see anyone," Wireman saidHe set down
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    Jack shouted with surprise and horror
    The man came bursting from the undergrowth just
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    93
    Jane Austen
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    of almost all
    94
    Mansfield Park
    CHAPTER XI
    THE DAY AT SOTHERTON, with all its imperfections, afforded the Miss
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