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  1. Raymond Chandler _ The Lady in the Lake

    Breeze looked at me very steadily. Then he sighed. Then he picked the glass up and tasted it and sighed again shook his head sideways with a half smile; the way a man does when you give him a drink and he needs it very badly and it is just right and the first swallow is like a peek into a cleaner, sunnier, brighter world.
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  2. Raymond Chandler _ The Lady in the Lake

    I drove on through the piled masses of granite and down through the meadows of coarse grass where cows grazed. The same gaudy slacks and short shorts and peasant handkerchiefs as yesterday, the same light breeze and golden sun and clear blue sky, the same smell of pine needles, the same cool softness of a mountain summer. But yesterday was a hundred years ago, something crystallized in time, like a fly in amber
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  3. Raymond Chandler _ The Lady in the Lake

    The minutes went by on tiptoe, with their fingers to their lips.
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  4. Raymond Chandler _ The Lady in the Lake

    Police business," he said almost gently, "is a hell of a problem. It's a good deal like politics. It asks for the highest type of men, and there's nothing in it to attract the highest type of men. So we have to work with what we get-and we get things like this.
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  5. Raymond Chandler _ The Lady in the Lake

    The depths cleared again. Something moved in them that was not a board. It rose slowly, with an infinitely careless languor, a long dark twisted something that rolled lazily in the water as it rose. It broke surface casually, lightly, without haste. I saw wool, sodden and black, a leather jerkin blacker than ink, a pair of slacks. I saw shoes and something that bulged nastily between the shoes and the cuffs of the slacks. I saw a wave of dark blond hair straighten out in the water and hold still for a brief instant as if with a calculated effect, and then swirl into a tangle again."
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  6. Raymond Chandler _ The Lady in the Lake

    One moment, please. Whom did you wish to see?" Degarmo spun on his heel and looked at me wonderingly. "Did he say 'whom'?" "Yeah, but don't hit him," I said. "There is such a word." Degarmo licked his lips. "I knew there was," he said. "I often wondered where they kept it.
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  7. Raymond Chandler _ The Lady in the Lake

    I don't like your manner," Kingsley said in a voice you could have crack a Brazil nut on."That's all right," I said. "I'm not selling it.
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  8. Raymond Chandler _ The Lady in the Lake

    I dreamed I was far down in the depths of icy green water with a corpse under my arm. The corpse had long blond hair that kept floating around in front of my face. An enormous fish with bulging eyes and a bloated body and scales shining with putrescence swam around leering like an elderly roué. Just as I was about to burst from lack of air, the corpse came alive under my arm and got away from me and then I was fighting with the fish and the corpse was rolling over and over in the water spinning its long hair."
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  9. Raymond Chandler _ The Lady in the Lake

    She wore a steel gray business suit and under the jacket a dark blue shirt and a man's tie of lighter shade. The edges of the folded handkerchief in the breast pocket looked sharp enough to slice bread.
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  10. Raymond Chandler _ The Lady in the Lake

    Permanecí sentado, muy quieto, escuchando cómo iba aquietándose la tarde por las ventanas abiertas. Y, muy lentamente, fui aquietándome con ella.
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  11. Raymond Chandler _ The Lady in the Lake

    However hard I try to be nice I always end up with my nose in the dirt and my thumb feeling for somebody's eye.
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  12. Raymond Chandler _ The Lady in the Lake

    I lit a cigarette and dragged a smoking stand beside the chair. The minutes went by on tiptoe, with their fingers to their lips. I looked the place over. You can't tell anything about an outfit like that. They might be making millions, and they might have the sheriff in the back room, with his chair tilted against the safe."
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