The wetgravel flowed easily over the surface, but the diamonds were dry. Goodbye, Tara, he whispered. She knew she was beaten and that from now on herLIFE would be a sad and sorry thing, a grinding daily struggle tomaintain her pride while she was reduced to the position of a mendicant. This is where we will do it,he told Swart Hendrick.
I swear on my sister's virginity. There was a dense knot of humanity halfwaydown the jetty, and from the factory all the idle packers were runningdown to join it. The river of diamonds, Centaine murmured as she leaned shoulder toshoulder with Shasa and peered down into the coffee-brown waters thatswirled around the piers of the bridge beneath them. whileeither Uncle Tromp or Aunt Trudi exhorted God to step up theirperformance or visit them with all kinds of retribution.
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