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I and can
`` 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 ''.

I and only
under the circumstances I was only too willing to confess all.
I went to the hall in the afternoons only, on these preliminary matters.
Once, pressing him, I learned that his job was only part-time, in the afternoons when nothing went on in the hall.
Although it was dark as usual I could see that the hall had only recently contained a great many people.
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.
I let up on the accelerator, only to gradually reach again the 60 m.p.h. which would, I hoped, overhaul Herry and the blonde, and as there were cars whose drivers apparently had something more important to catch than had I, Mrs. Major Roebuck settled down to practicing on Corporal Johnson the kittenish wiles she would need when making her duty call on Colonel and Mrs. Somebody in Sante Fe.
The way his red rubber lips were stretched across his pearly little teeth I thought he was only having a little joke, but, no, he wanted me to bend down from the roar of wind so he could roar something into my ear.
Just as I got to my knees, there was again the sound of the fence stretching, and I had time only to start taking my kneeling posture seriously.
Maybe Lou was only unconscious, but right then I thought he must be dead.
But I promised Joyce I would mention her name, if at all, only as a last resort.
I said, `` O.K., so now only Blake knows.
True, she was my Aunt, married to an Uncle related to me only by marriage, but why she had married a man twice her age, and more, perhaps, I did not know or much care.
`` Nope, just you, all the time -- sometimes I think it's the only way I'll ever get a decent partner ''.
`` I only said I was hungry.
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 ''!!
`` Now that Bruno Walter is virtually in retirement and my dear friend Dimitri Mitropoulos is no longer with us, I am probably the only one -- with the possible exception of Leonard Bernstein -- who has this special affinity for and champions the works of Bruckner and Mahler ''.
I was chairman, the only not youthful participant.
The latter in turn assured him that `` were I arraigned at the bar, and you my judge, I should expect to stand or fall only by the merits of my cause ''.

I and hope
I would turn away from my writing in the hope of getting a good look at them but I never quite succeeded.
Suddenly a treble auto horn tootley-toot-tootled, and, thumbing hopefully, I saw emergent in windshield flash: red lips, streaming silk of blonde hair and -- ah, trembling confusion of hope, apprehension, despair -- the leering face of old Herry.
A man must be able to say, `` Father, I have sinned '', or there is no hope for him.
I left behind me brave men, whom captivity had robbed of all hope.
While my memory holds with relentless tenacity, as I cannot too often stress, to my wrongs, when it comes to my shames, it gestures and jokes and toys with chronology like a prestidigitator in the hope of distracting me from them.
However, I confess my hope that I will be innocent again, not with a pristine, accidental innocence, but rather with an innocence achieved by the slow cutting away of the flesh to reach the bone.
I still have the dress, and I hope to give it to the Smithsonian Institution as a memento, or, as I more fondly hope, to present it to a museum containing articles showing the daily lives of the Presidents -- if I can get it organized.
but this -- yes, terrible step I am about to take is lightened with an inundating joy by the new-found hope that here, in these poems, is treasure -- or at least some measure of beauty, which I did not know of ''.
Harcourt replied: `` I do really hope you can achieve serenity in the course of time.
Of course I hope Hal can also, but those hopes are much more faint ''.
The reason is, I think, my awareness that my remarks last quarter on pacifism may well have served to confirm the opinion of some that my tendency to skepticism and dissent gets us nowhere, and that I am simply too old to hope.
She asked if I had other advice and, heady with success, I rushed it in, I hope not too late.

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