`` I can take care of this.

I don't know what makes you think you can get away with this kind of business, and I don't care about that, either.

So I can hear you while I'm checkin' the car.

Print it in real big letters, an' I can cipher it out later ''.

`` Yeah, I can see that '', the friend was forced to agree.

Now turn around so I can see your face ''.

`` Got a lot to tend to, but I'll get back quick as I can '', he assured her.

I can see Dan.

Besides, 'tain't no more'n right for me to follow with my black oxen, so's I can unhook and pull up fast if either of you get in a pinch ''.

`` I've got her as neat as I can '', Donovan said, as he dropped the straps of the Seton harness over Greg's shoulders.

I could show what I can do ''.

It'll probably be at least an hour or two before I can check back with you.

Even as I said it I realized that an education can be invaluable.

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

I think I have a way so we can carry on without his suspecting us ''.

and now I think we can use the knowledge they passed on to us.

To this meek conjugation Nicolas had replied, `` O.K. I can use this blanket.

I can never pronounce it ''.

`` Or do you want to see if I can stand fever, too ''??

`` I suppose '', he muttered, `` I can sell the outfit for enough to send you home to your folks, once we find a settlement ''.

God in Heaven, I can't refuse you now.

`` I don't mind washing dishes now and then '', he said pleasantly.

This desire, I went on, growing voluble as my conviction was aroused, had mounted at such a rate recently that I now found its realization necessary not only to my physical but also to my spiritual wellbeing.

`` Hell, that's all right, buddy '', the Indian ( I now guessed ) said.

There had been a good second or two during which my muffler had been blowing out, and now I was certain I'd seen her somewhere before.

I said, `` O.K., so now only Blake knows.

If it were not for an old professor who made me read the classics I would have been stymied on what to do, and now I understand why they are classics ; ;

`` And now '', said Tilghman with deadly calm, `` I'll repeat what I said.

I been riding train for a ways now ''.

I followed them in the jeep and now they did not care.

His London contract was rescinded, and now, he explains cheerfully, as a bright smile lightens his intense, mobile face, `` I conduct only one hundred and twenty concerts ''!!

`` I have just come from viewing a man who had made the fortune of his country, but now is working all night in order to support his family '', he reflected.

And so I would only touch upon it now ( much as I have long wanted to write a book about it ).

Both I and my feelings come up out of a chain of events that fan out into the past into sources that are ultimately very unlike the entity which I now am.

The Commission seems to represent the viewpoint of what I would call the unconscious liberal, but not unconscious enough, to invoke the now taboo symbolism of socialism.

If I now risk some comparisons with Sons And Lovers let it be clear that I am not comparing the two works or judging their merits ; ;

Yet this passion for passion, now that I look back on it with passion spent, seems somewhat overblown and operatic, though as a diva Miss Millay perfectly controlled her notes.

I can see us now.

I fled, however, not from what might have been the natural fear of being unable to disguise from you that the things about my bridegroom -- in the sense you meant the word `` things '' -- which you had been galvanizing yourself to tell me as a painful part of your maternal duty were things which I had already insisted upon finding out for myself ( despite, I may now say, the unspeakable awkwardness of making the discovery on principle, yes, on principle, and in cold blood ) because I was resolved, as a modern woman, not to be a mollycoddle waiting for Life but to seize Life by the throat.

I guess you'd better go on in the morning ''.

`` I never felt better in my life '', Fiske blustered.

Donald Kruger would like nothing better than to hold him as hostage, and I wouldn't entrust a snake to his tender care.

I started looking on the splintery truck bed for a piece of board, a dirt clod -- anything I could throw and with better aim than I had thrown the beer bottle.

I heard her murmur, `` We'd better lock the door ''.

He was thinking, big deal: skipper on his drunken fishing parties for seven years and no better off than when I started.

`` If you will pardon, I think it would be better if not.

I think it is essential, however, to pinpoint here the difference between the two concepts of sovereignty that went to war in 1861 -- if only to see better how imperative is our need today to clarify completely our far worse confusion on this subject.

`` Madame Noel, I think you had better go '', said Mrs. Cupply.

`` And I think you had better leave '', replied Miriam.

' I think you had better leave '!!

I assume that the number of readers of this anthology who regard themselves as morally perfect is small, and that most readers are willing to consider procedures by which they may gain more insight into themselves and better understanding of others.

So far as I am concerned, the child is unmistakably father to the man, despite the obvious fact that child and father differ greatly -- sometimes for the better and sometimes for the worse.

`` She's probably getting old -- crotchety, I mean -- and we figured uh-uh, better not.

I knew better.

I knew better but I was thinking of the Pedersen kid mother-naked in all that dough.

`` Chickens have short memories '', the doctor remarked, `` that's why they are better company than most people I know '', and he went on to break some important news to Alex.

`` I guess I better get ready to go ''.

and now, therefore, do I, John A. Notte, Jr., governor of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, proclaim Tuesday, October 24th, 1961, as United Nations day, calling upon all our citizens to engage in appropriate observances, demonstrating faith in the United Nations and thereby contributing to a better understanding of the aims of the United Nations throughout the land.

( An unheated greenhouse would have been better, if I had had one.

During the return trip, Barco kept muttering to himself in meaningless phrases, such as: `` They're under sand dunes They're better off, I tell you I saved their souls ''.