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I grinned at him, handed him a couple of dollars and said, `` By the time you get the parking charge figured up, there should be a cigar in it for you ''.
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I grinned, but ignored the question.
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He started to say something as I walked in and then suddenly grinned and said, `` Oh, yes.
I said, `` Wait wait '' to Charlie and he grinned, digging the reference.
I grinned at Rachel.
I felt my frozen sad face crumble, and I grinned a silly one I couldn't have helped.
He would look at me sometimes and say ' Boy, when I was your age I was fighting a war ', but in the end he grinned and said: ' Go over to England for one year, one year mind, and see what you can do '".
But I never felt that he was inside his role of a chap called Socrates [...] He grinned and shrugged through the evening which steadily became less about grouting on tiles and more about grating on nerves.
I and at
Every time I closed my eyes, I saw Gray Eyes rushing at me with a knife.
Next to him was a young boy I was sure had sat near me at one of the trading sessions.
I was nearly thirty at the time.
I would turn away from my writing in the hope of getting a good look at them but I never quite succeeded.
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.
By counting the number of stalls and urinals I attempted to form a loose estimate of how many men the hall would hold at one time.
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.
No sooner would I turn my head away from the counter before he would address me, at times quite sharply, in order to bring back my attention.
I felt strongly attached to the hall, however, and hardly a day passed when I did not go to look at it from a distance.
My future lay solely with the hall, yet what did I know about the hall at this point??
I was at once disappointed, although just what I had expected him to look like I could not have explained.
What sort of men I would come into contact with, at the hall??
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 would have foregone my romantic chances rather than leave a friend sweltering and dusty and -- Well, at least I wouldn't have shouted back a taunt.
I was again in motion and at a speed which belied the truck's similarity to Senor X's Ford turtle.
At once my ears were drowned by a flow of what I took to be Spanish, but -- the driver's white teeth flashing at me, the road wildly veering beyond his glistening hair, beyond his gesticulating bottle -- it could have been the purest Oxford English I was half hearing ; ;
I and him
I believed him.
In my sights I watched him looming bigger and bigger.
Now under me I could see him for what he really was, a boy dressed up in streaks of paint.
`` I know him.
Once, pressing him, I learned that his job was only part-time, in the afternoons when nothing went on in the hall.
With distaste I saw him assume a pompous air.
At last, when I put it to him directly, the clerk was forced to admit that the delay in my case was unusual.
When I asked him what, if anything, I could do about it, he surprised me by referring me to the director of the hall.
`` I never saw him.
`` I can't leave him there.
Donald Kruger would like nothing better than to hold him as hostage, and I wouldn't entrust a snake to his tender care.
But, by gosh, I want him and I'm going to have him!!
I meant him no harm.
I've got to take Danny away from Clayton before I lose him altogether.
I heard o' Texas cattlemen wrappin' a cow thief up in green hides and lettin' the sun shrink 'em and squeeze him to death.
`` I don't know nothin' about him ''.
`` 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 ain't ragging him ''!!
I didn't get a good look at him at all, his back was to me, and I was so scared It was just somebody in a man's suit.
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