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I and do
`` That was a terrible thing to do '', I said to Oso.
`` That quirt -- I ought to use it on you, where it would do the most good.
Having nothing else to do except wait for my forms to be processed, I gave myself over to speculations concerning the hall itself.
As I had expected, he insisted that my visits to the hall would do nothing to further the process of my application.
When I asked him what, if anything, I could do about it, he surprised me by referring me to the director of the hall.
As he lowered himself on the chair behind his desk I wondered what this dapper, slightly ridiculous man could possibly have to do with the workings of the hall.
He said in a studied voice, `` I didn't do it for you.
Don't like to bother no one unless we have to, which I figger we do, in your case.
You think that Highlands swindled you and I helped 'em do it.
I just do what I'm told, and '' --
`` You and I have a little talking to do, Jess.
`` So help me, Crouch, I'd like to kill you where you stand, but, before I do, I'm going to hear you admit killing him.
I don't mean to pry, but do they hide the swimsuit with the bubbles??
`` I really do have something important to tell you, Mr. Scott.
I could show what I can do ''.
As far as I was concerned, she had already and had dandily shown what she could do.
`` Only when I do it ''.
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 ; ;
Why she married him I do not know.
`` I know what we can do '', I said.
If I even hint at it do you think it will matter that you are his nephew -- and not even a blood nephew ''??

I and care
`` I can take care of this.
I don't know what goes on around here, and I don't care.
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.
Donald Kruger would like nothing better than to hold him as hostage, and I wouldn't entrust a snake to his tender care.
When my Uncle offered me a part-time job which would take care of my normal expenses and give me time to paint I accepted.
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.
`` I vowed to take care of you -- and that's what I'm gonna do.
I suppose the reason is a kind of wishful thinking: don't talk about the final stages of Reconstruction and they will take care of themselves.
I followed them in the jeep and now they did not care.
`` I care not how soon we reach Calcutta, and are placed in a still room, with a bowl of milk and a loaf of Indian bread.
But if you are able & care to come, you know how glad I shall be.
Frankly, I don't care ''.
You may stay as long as you wish, of course, but if arranging for the care of the girls must take time into account, I think a day or two should be enough to finish our business in ''.
He don't care at all, and I don't care to get my head busted neither.
He don't care, and I don't care to have his shit flung on me.
What you think I care about that??
Each time Letch `` went up '' in his `` lines '', I was the one to be patient, helpful and apologetic while he indulged in outbursts of temperament, profanity and abuse, blaming others, going into `` sulks '' and, on more occasions than I care to count, storming off the `` set '' for the rest of the day.
I am equally impatient with the shrug of the shoulder, shake of the head of those who no longer care because they have known it for so long ; ;
`` I wouldn't have gone into nursing if I didn't care about people.

I and if
I just can't take any chances on getting her pregnant, and if we were sleeping together ''
As I dug in behind one of the bales we were using as protection, I grudgingly found myself agreeing with Oso's logic, especially when I imagined what would have happened to Missy if Old Knife's large party of screeching warriors had overrun our company.
`` Damned if I will.
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 ''.
But Johnson couldn't quickly unwire the truck door, and if I escaped, he might suffer.
But I promised Joyce I would mention her name, if at all, only as a last resort.
You must forgive me if I seem to dwell too much on her physical aspects but I am an artist, accustomed to studying the physical body.
I felt that her eyes were undressing me as if she were a painter and I a nude model.
I quit work at my usual hour as if this day was no different from other days.
And I will greatly appreciate it if you will not tell your husband.
But a young American has a bath next to his room and I shall ask him if you might use it this once.
`` Or do you want to see if I can stand fever, too ''??
The big man with the whitened hair murmured something: his words sounded as if they were in the Manu tongue, which I recognized, having studied the dialect in my Anthropology 6, class at the University of Chicago.
`` Why '', he went on, `` when Rob asked me if he could make his dive on this trip, I didn't think twice about it.
`` If you will pardon, I think it would be better if not.
and if a poll had been taken immediately following the dispatch of troops to Little Rock I believe the majority would have been for the Old South.
I asked Wisman what would happen if he broke out the go codes and tried to start transmitting one.
I do not know if such a way of life can come to be a self-conscious challenge, but I suspect that it can.

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