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| Well, should I keep going? |
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(Annie suddenly looks as joyous as we've yet seen her)
I'll kill you if you don't, Mister Man! (building into a fervor) -Oh, Paul, when Ian realized that the reason they'd buried Misery alive was because a beesting had put her in a temporary coma- |
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| -And when Gravedigger Wilkes remembered how thirty years earlier, the same thing had happened to Lady Evelyn-Hyde and then Old Doctor Cleary deduced that Misery must be Lady Evelyn-Hyde's long-lost daughter because of the rarity of deadly beestings- well, my heart just leapt! |
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| (Paul watches her- it's as if he had nothing to do with it) |
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| I've known from the very first book that Misery had to be born of nobility- and I was right! |
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| Yes, it's fair. And it's exciting. But it's gruesome, too. Misery's bloody hands scratching to get out of her coffin... It's not like any of the other Misery books. |
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| Well, different circumstances. |
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| (Annie touches the pages with such gentleness) I'm wild to know what happens next. Will she be her old self now that Ian has dug her out or will she have amnesia? |
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| Will she still love him with that special perfect love? |
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| (pleading) Not even a hint? |
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| (pause) It's good, isn't it? |
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(this is a very big moment for Paul. Annie begins to spin around the room like a happy child)
Misery's alive. Misery's aive! vOh, this house is going to be filled with romance. I'm going to play all my Liberace records for us! Oh, Paul, can I read each chapter when you finish? -Please, please, please- it would be almost like the chapter plays when was a kid. I could fill in all the "n's" for you. |
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| Only on condition that you do something for me? |
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Would you have dinner with me tonight?
(she is stunned, thrilled, can't speak)
To celebrate Misery's Return- I could never have done it without you. |
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| Oh, Paul- it would be an honor. (she dashes excitedly out of the room) |
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