She stared at him, her eyes wide as she thought about what he had said ; ;

His wife had said to him: `` Nellie is in love with Clayton Roy.

`` You're Gavin's son '', Joe Purvis had said.

She said, and her tone had softened until it was almost friendly.

Six hundred and forty acres, the old man back in St. Louis had said ; ;

I had always, I said, hankered after working hard with my hands.

`` It's Curtiss '', he said, naming the man Rankin had hit.

Even as he said it, Greg knew they had found the enemy.

An Ah coudn ansuh him an so Ah said ' Aw right, Ah gay-ess, an his fathuh didn uttuh one wohd an aftuh Huhmun was gone, the majuh laughed an tole me thet he an the bawh had been hevin an occasional drink t'gethuh f'ovuh a yeah, onleh an occasional one, but just the same it was behahn mah back, an Ah doan think thet's nahce at all, d'you ''??

Sometimes I wondered vaguely what he did about women for my Aunt, by blood, had died some years ago, but neither of us said anything.

`` Dear girl '', Walter had finally said, `` he writes me that he is sleeping in the English Gardens ''.

Mary Jane had smilingly said.

There had been classroom guffaws which quickly subsided as Professor Griggs said dryly: `` I see your point, Pauson.

The pretty little twittering WACS said he had the look of eagles -- and Penny, hating the cliche, had to admit that in this case it applied.

`` Hi there, Schaffner '', he had said.

Waddell had heard that he had been a commando in Rommel's Afrika Corps, and he said to himself: I'd hate to run into him in the desert on a dark night.

Aloud he had said, making conversation:

`` Yes '', Herr Schaffner had said.

`` Thank you '', the German had said courteously.

His superiors had said that all marines were depraved.

He could think of nothing else save his mental image of her nude figure and what Charles had said that morning about Margaret Rider.

Occasionally he would look across the aisle at Margaret, fourteen and demure in a fresh green organdy dress, sitting in the sixth-grade row, and he could hardly believe she would do what Charles had said she did.

At noontime, remembering what the teacher had said about maybe playing with the kids, Jack stayed close to the schoolhouse while all the other big boys, except Charles, went off out the road to play ball.

`` We had to do something ''.

We haven't had anything to eat all day ''.

`` We were possessed by visions of a new civilization to come, very pure and elevated '', he has said, `` in fact some ideal form of socialism such as we had dreamed of since the war of 1914-1918 ''.

We had been walking quite briskly, for despite your being so small and me so tall, your stride in those days could easily match mine.

We had stopped before a shop window to assess its autumnal display, when you suddenly turned to me, looking up from beneath one of your wrong hats, and with your nervous `` ahem ''!!

We were almost the same age, she was fifteen, I was twelve, and where I felt there was a life to look forward to Lilly felt she had had as much of it as was necessary.

We found that a charitable society in New York had a long case-history of the two ; ;

He said, `` We had a good time tonight, didn't we, Earl ''??

We had walked it many times and shivered, figuring what a fish barrel it had been for the French.

We had assumed that at least this local legislative body had nothing to hide, and, therefore, had no objections to making the deliberations of its committees and the city commissions available to the public.

We had a couple of schools in this country, the principal one being on the Marshall Field estate out in Lloyd's Neck.

`` We just sit quiet and wait '', Prevot had said.

We came down off the wall as if he had toppled all of us, and we crouched behind it.

We both had hangovers.

We still had that much in common.

`` We found some owls had built a nest in the chimney, milord, but I promise you you'll never have trouble of that sort again ''.

We also continued to run a series of ads featuring endorsement of Rhode Island by industrialists who had recently established new plants here.

We have had sound grounding in the principles of the mailed-fist-in-velvet-glove school of diplomacy.

We had merely been discovered by the pool sharks.

We unanimously agreed that Prokofieff had won his rights as a world citizen to the first ranks of Twentieth-Century Composers.

We have seen good new products shelved because no one had the assignment to develop such facts and plans -- and management couldn't make up its mind.