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I could tell you of plenty narrow escapes, but we take no notice of them now ''.
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I could see their faces glistening with sweat and bear grease, their mouths open, shouting their spine-chilling cries.
) hung on a hook on the wall, and underneath it I could see his tie, knotted, ready to be slipped over his head, a black badge of frayed respectability that ought never to have left his neck.
They, and the two large fans which I could dimly see as daylight filtered through their vents, down at the far end of the hall, could be turned on by a master switch situated inside the office.
For although I had crossed a corner of the hall on my way to the toilet I still could not tell for sure how far to the rear the darkness extended.
I could observe the two fans down at the end, but their size in themselves meant nothing to me as long as I had no measure of comparison.
I knew that three or four of them were almost always present in the hall, but what they were doing, and exactly where, I could not tell.
When I asked him what, if anything, I could do about it, he surprised me by referring me to the director of the hall.
Although it was dark as usual I could see that the hall had only recently contained a great many people.
I and tell
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.
But when it happens to you like that, I tell you, and you're a hundred feet from where you thought you were -- well, it makes you think.
If the old fool argues about the price, tell him I shall order my husband not to treat him as a patient any longer.
Said: `` There are things I must tell you about this man you are marrying which he does not know himself ''.
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've been in government and I can tell some pretty hairy stories about personnel difficulties, so I know what a problem he was ''.
I and you
`` I mean, we don't have any way to get there and we can't expect you to quit work just to take us to town ''.
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.
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