EDGAR AS PREPARING tO tAKE tional rit?ers Examination, a five-y-minute examina?tion, for ificate. ?ened. t of taking t . aken it ts. No tual questions from tion but similar questions. quot;Barbara, if I dont knock it for a loop time I dont kno; Barbara continued to address o t about say?ing someto erry-cloted batiny fig to climb into tudying for tion.

    quot;tten part is o everyone in t;t is ;  ted at ;If I dont kick it in time I dont knoo do,quot; ed. quot;Barb?quot; But so respond to tion. S it ion . Noness tacle any more so she gave him her back.

    quot;t,quot; Edgar continued encouragingly, quot;is A-okay. I can for instance give you a list of ans so en, ell me tion?quot; Barbara, ive (t ap on e, many years before) but also deeply mean, said not  child, Rose.

    quot;; Edgar said. quot;t is tion?quot;

    too provocative for Barbara to resist long, because sion. quot;e ttle ; s;t a groed States .quot;

    quot;Youre rig; Edgar said un ttle more rec s ion to. But s to triumpoo great. quot;Do you  to try anot;

    quot;Edgar I dont believe in t examination any more,quot; sold him coldly.

    quot;I dont believe in you Barbara,quot; ered.

    tarily letting  fear prevented  so surned  about ted certificate. itificate e for all tant and great periodicals, and tead of  from .

    quot;It isnt you ional rit?ers Examination,quot;  past o mol?lify, ;Brand, tuck, glave, claymore.quot;

    quot;Is t an ans; she asked from behind her back.

    quot;It is indeed. s tion?quot;

    quot;I dont kno; sted, sligo be put back in a feminine position of not knowing.

    quot;t;

    quot;ts ;

    quot;Obviously,quot; said Edgar imes given to saying t  to fill t;You put a  in noo fres; ;Even ts an old s so old its ne you o be careful, text o let people kno  to be simply obscure.quot; ricks of trade to Barb,  in them.

    quot;Do you  me to read you ten for tten part?quot;

    Barb said yes, ill felt acutely o do.

    quot;t; Edgar said, preparing  paper.

    quot; is title?quot; Barbara asked. Surned to face him.

    quot;I  got a title yet,quot; Edgar said. quot;Okay, t; o read aloud. quot;In torict of Y--, tain Madame A--,  Baron A--  ttle of Kolin: by  a crucial mo?ment in ting, est part of t,  of 33,000 men. No eau in  far from ttlefield; in fact, teau itself in t danger; and at t Madame A-- learned, from a Captain Orsini, of old t a detac of pandours, tal and muc irregular cavalry, eau gates.quot;

    Edgar paused to breathe.

    Barb looked at ;turns me on,quot; s;More t; So   dohe sofabed.

    quot;t; Edgar said. quot;Do you  me to read you t?quot;

    quot;Go a;

    Edgar drank some er from a glass near to hand.

    quot;t terrible neatus in regard to t. Giacomo Orsini, second son of a noble family of Siena, ion. , not t of priest  village priest in try. une. It  ruler, to assemble, as is  army in Europe. tiny Prussia o supply men in sufficient numbers to satisfy tion; ers ranged over t persuade, ies, into tall men, and ed, for  of giants, muc time, but nonet. It  Orsini to be a very tall man, and of impressive mien and bearing ed straigar, as  in ;

    quot;ting,quot; Barb broke in, husiasm.

    quot;t; Edgar said, and continued his read?ing.

    quot;-- and served ten years in t of giants. On t  t, by noed to military life, and even zestful for it, enlisted under tain.quot;

    quot;Is torically accurate?quot; Barbara asked.

    quot;It does not contradict ; Edgar assured her.

    quot;Assigned to taff of Baron A--, and mucatters  qualities. A deep sympatab?lisself bet it o a conclusion, on , or ackno it existed, and dre nouris from it, and took muc in to t t state of affairs also , for Orsini, altest restraint in tter, nevert ting to  ron to be a just and  tors domestic life, w was now, in wsoever slig;

    Rose, tood in e bat alking for sucime, and in sucic shaking voice.

    quot;t at all insensible of t , as it ion of latency, betercourse,  ually reaco a roops at Kolin, for egy nor a display of pusillanimity, but a , s purpose teau, and to be togeto t of t too was a cruel farce; ;

    Edgar stopped.

    quot;Its s-moving,quot; Barbara complimented.

    quot;ell, do you  me to read you t; Edgar asked.

    quot;t t;

    quot;Do you  me to read you t; ed.

    quot;Yes.quot;

    quot;Ive got t I dont ; Edgar said, a little ashamed.

    quot;You dont ;

    quot;Do you  me to read you t you?quot;

    quot;Yes, read me t; ty of a semi-professional apartment, ained briefly,  of  there was no middle.

    quot;t paragraphis:

    quot;During ts Friedrico console  Kolin, composed in le at Berlin a flute sonata, of  is not less lovely tas of Georg Pelemann.quot;

    quot;ts ironic,quot; she said knowingly.

    quot;Yes,quot; Edgar agreed, impatient. ile as popcorn.

    quot;But  t;

    quot;I dont ; hundered.

    quot;Someto s ; s on. quot;Otory.quot; Looking at : sill streety alt love,  be told from the children of success.

    Barb telling a story s o a friend of . to Seville, to see if y muc, and saneously aborted, in Co parley, and treets and visited elderly c. And t c into, tiny little  in tuary.

    quot;Banal,quot; Edgar pronounced.

    Sried to te to deliver to him.

    quot;Ive got to get t certificate!quot;  desperately.

    quot;I dont tional riters Examination  you  paper,quot; Barb said t regret, because even t  to   so tell trut;it a middle.quot;

    quot;I  , even ificate,quot; he said.

    quot;Your views would ;

    At t moment tered t feet tall and  of tor ra?dios, all turned on and tuned to different stations. Just by looking at land and Nogales, Mexico.

    quot;No grass in t;

    Barbara got t in one of ttle yelloal canisters made for sending film back to Eastman Kodak.

    Edgar tried to to badmout  to be found, but  of all is to begin, to begin, to begin.