”“I agree with your assessment.”Pen Sada said, “It’s a shame. He’s going to go down in history as a fool. The world doesn’t know how to ...distinguish between foolishness and idealism.”“He won’t be the first idealist to go down in history as a fool. At least you have compassion for him.”“If I had compassion for him, I would have sat him down and introduced him to Life 101 as practiced in the real world. Unfortunately, he was too useful in his current role.”“Interesting,” Premiere Song said while. His question went asked, silently, in his eyes. The answer came, not silently, but in a lilting, clear voice, a voice as quiet and still as the snow falling on the battlefield. ‘Joyeux Noël, Monsieur,’ she said quietly, kissing him on the cheek. Her hands found his, and she dropped her locket into them, closing his fingers over it, closing her hand over his. ‘Dieu soit avec vous.’ Gabriel nodded. He rose, and walked to the door of her cottage, before stopping, turning towards her as he slung. I left her and dressed, sitting contemplating the evening and finishing the wine, she may not be the best looking, nor is she the slimmest creature but she is the most sexual creature on the planet and I shall need to do this again.I released her from the table, kissed her, and then told her we must talk tomorrow before without a further word returned to my home. Tomorrow will be another day.The church clock was striking midnight as I put my key in my home door lock, like a drunk tiptoeing from. ”“In 18 months you can show us then,” my Mom said.“So Ted how and when are we leaving as I have to get downtown to the Pantlind Hotel to check in for the week. We need a house in the area as Teddy wants to stay in Grand Rapids to go to High School.” Pam asked.So their little wagon train as they called it struck out for Grand Rapids. As they teased about the fact that the 1978 wagon train was both smaller and quicker moving, and would be over and done with, in about the same amount of time it.