`` I could use some help '', Morgan said finally, `` but I can't afford to pay you anything.

Finally Hernandez said, `` I could offer you advice, Tomas, but you wouldn't heed it ''.

If you tell him I made a pass at you he might think you misunderstood something I said or did, so instead of just telling him I made a pass, say I tried to date you and that you agreed so you could prove to him what a louse I really am.

As cheerfully as possible, he said, `` Well, I guess we could all do with a little drink ''.

`` Hettie '', he said as gently as he could, `` we're still headed west.

This was the worst thing I could have said.

The girl took a couple of steps toward the man in shorts when Benson, in that barefoot courtliness Ramey could never decide was real, said, `` You don't want to go around there, Ma'am ''.

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.

Yet, I responded, could not similar things be said about the art of the past??

He said that Mr. Wright was not in, and so could not be arrested on something called a peace warrant that Miriam was waving in the air.

He said that the architect might reasonably be expected to carry his financial burdens if all harrassment could be brought to an end, and that the bank would accept a mortgage on Taliesin to help bring this about.

`` He's a wrong-o '', said Runyon, `` and I wouldn't trust him as far as I could throw the Statue of Liberty ''.

When Nan Patterson, a stunning and money-minded chorus girl who had appeared in a Floradora road show, rode down Broadway in a hansom cab with her married lover, Frank Young, she stopped the cab to disclose that Young had been shot dead, tearfully insisting that he had shot himself although experts said he could not have done so.

Sherman was responsible for the story when he said in his memoirs that this was the only time he could recall seeing Thomas ride so fast.

Of course, there were books about which nothing good could be said.

but he defended the doctrine in The Art Of Happiness, and what indeed could be said against the Epicurean virtues, health, frugality, privacy, culture and friendship??

`` We tried to settle this dispute '', he said, `` but could never come to an agreement.

And then I put the question as pointedly as I could directly to Chiang Kai-shek: `` In America '', I said, `` practically no one believes that you subjectively intend to re-enter the Mainland.

Going downstairs with the tray, Winston wished he could have given in to Miss Ada, but he knew better than to do what she said when she had that little-girl look.

`` At least you could leave it for the movers '', Miss Ada said.

`` If I could only think of something at the studio, near me, to absorb his boundless energy '', I said.

One woman -- she could have been either English or American -- went up to him and said, ' But you are the foreigners ' ''.

`` I'm sorry, Mrs. Minks '', Arlene said in a tone so low you could hardly hear it.

`` That was a terrible thing to do '', I said to Oso.

Barton said harshly, `` Why did you do that ''??

He said in a studied voice, `` I didn't do it for you.

`` We'll do it another way, then '', he said harshly.

`` I know what we can do '', I said.

`` Don't say or do anything '', he said softly.

That should do it, he thought, because Miss Langford had said she was going to be strict about school work.

`` All right, if you can't do your arithmetic during school hours you can do it after school is out '', Miss Langford said firmly, not smiling.

`` Mr. Lane '', Hearst said, `` if you ever wish anything that I can do, all you will have to do will be to send me a telegram asking, and it will be done ''.

`` You do not know me '', she said in good English, `` but my mother was your governess in Philadelphia when you were a child ''.

He said he would do it, though probably nobody would produce it, for his own `` soul's ease and comfort ''.

Then, all but blind, he said there was nothing in Back to Methuselah --, -- `` G.B.S. ought to have known that '', -- and `` I look at my bookshelves despairingly, knowing that I can have nothing more to do with them ''.

I said I would do it for her.

`` But '', it said, `` do you always know when you're happy ''??

So be it -- then we must embark on a crash program for 200-megaton bombs of the common or hydrogen variety, and neutron bombs, which do not exist but are said to be the coming thing.

The monk who opened the door immediately calmed his worries about his reception: `` I speak English '', the old man said, `` but I do not hear it very well ''.

The Vice President said with a slight bluster, `` There isn't anyone who loves the President more than I do.

She said, `` My dear, do you know what Kent House is ''??

He waited until they were inside the elevator and then said: `` Now what do we do ''??

I said sure that was what I wanted her to do but she paid no attention.