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"You really want to know?" Priscilla asked, pushing herself up on one elbow so she could look down the length of her body. "Your problem, dear brother, is that you have no grace."

He lifted her bare feet into his lap. "Is that so?"

"Don't think to soften the truth with coddling. You're as subtle as a clown at a ballet. And you don't even realize it," she added as he pushed her feet off his lap. She brought her knees up under the long gray dress and let her head drop onto the couch.

"I didn't think you were against curiosity, Prissy."

She pushed herself back up again, glaring at him. "You prove my point. There are bulls in china shops that have more finesse than you do. If it were possible I would say you should give back the family name."

"I can 'finesse' someone out of their money just as well as anyone else in this family."

Snorting delicately, she tossed a carefully coiffed wave out of her eyes. "You can con, I'll give you that, but you certainly lack elegance."

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i just finished re-reading my 2005 nano-novel (does that count as having read a book? it was about 25k long) and i left myself on such a cliffhanger! i'm so mean! why do both my b'day, my friend's b'day and Thanksgiving all have to come midway through November?

in other news, i accidentally had my Harry Potter: The Deathly Hollows sent to my job instead of my house and didn't realize until Thurs night when Amazon sent the confirmation. needless to say it was too late to make the address change. i was highly tempted to go up to my job (several towns away) and pick it up but...i'm gonna suck it up and just wait until Monday. there are worse things. or so i've been told ;P