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After AmericaI'm afraid that at the moment I have only the lowest form of wit to offer. And to think I took a first in rhetoric at Cambridge." "Didn't you cheat your way through college?" "Cheated and bonked, but I did have a base level of competence, you know. It's in my nature. Daddy virtually lived off his wits until he blew his brains out." The Rhino lowered his binoculars and joined her in the small clearing. Jules could recognize a few of the plants that had gone wild up there-some Japanese maples that had burst out of their pots and colonized a large square of native grasses, a thicket of tomato vines, and what looked like zucchini-but most of it was just anonymous shrubbery and scrappy urban jungle. The Rhino spit out the rest of his chaw, plucked a small tomato off the vine, and bit into it, but then he screwed up his face and spit out the pulp. "Nasty." The tom-tom beat of a heavy weapon started up, and within seconds Julianne flinched as a jet fighter slipped down out of the clouds and released a couple of bombs that detonated with enough force to shake the city ...» |
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