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She was reading her paperbackThe Old Curiosity Shop , which I had given her on the plane, and she said to me:             'Quinn, Dickens is a madman.            Lestat appeared to be studying Stirling, who had fallen silent, staring at Lestat, perhaps doing that little mental trick of memorizing all the details about which he would write later on. We all had our guns -- I now carried Pops' thirty-eight -- and two security men brought up the rear. ’             We sipped, waiting for the temperature to become comfortable, and I saw there were animal cra

together for a little while, and ever after we did that in the evenings right after supper before Pops headed up early to bed. It seemed very fresh and soft and beautiful to me, this bouquet, and I wanted to put it tenderly into her arms. ' She paused for effect, her eyes narrowing. 'I mean it.