And you wanted no part of me when I had so much to give.

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.

In the brief moment I had to talk to them before I took my post on the ring of defenses, I indicated I was sickened by the methods men employed to live and trade on the river.

Next to him was a young boy I was sure had sat near me at one of the trading sessions.

At first I thought he had missed.

I saw the clergyman kneel for a moment by the twitching body of the man he had shot, then run back to his position.

Later I would remember what this pompous little man had told me about the worth of a ticket.

One afternoon, upon receiving permission and the necessary instructions from the clerk, I had visited the toilet adjoining the hall.

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 had for some time been hoping, in vain, for one of the dim figures to pass between the fan vents and myself.

It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.

And I had hardly finished my business in the toilet on the aforementioned occasion when the lights in that place, like the hall lights controlled from the switch in the office, flicked off and on impatiently.

I had signed it off on the forms.

Although I had been inside it I had not yet seen it functioning.

I remember one day when Mr. Hearst ( and I never knew why he liked me, either ) sent the Hetman a telegram: `` Please find some more reporters like that young man from Denver ''.

`` Mr. Lane '', Hearst said, `` if you ever wish anything that I can do, all you will have to do will be to send me a telegram asking, and it will be done ''.

As a result, Pasternak sent a second telegram to the Nobel Committee: " In view of the meaning given the award by the society in which I live, I must renounce this undeserved distinction which has been conferred on me.

Einstein responded by telegram: " I believe in Spinoza's God, who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with the fates and actions of human beings.

Macdonald had sent the telegram to Allan six days before the 1872 election which read: " I must have another $ 10, 000.

In addition, Otto von Bismarck goaded the French into declaring war by altering a telegram sent by William I.

I got a telegram from the home: Mother deceased.

Garibaldi was called back from his successful march and resigned with a brief telegram reading only " Obbedisco " (" I obey ").

A telegram arrived from Richard, reading: " I am not well.

He sent a telegram on 29 December 1895 to Rhodes warning him of his intentions-" Unless I hear definitely to the contrary, shall leave to-morrow evening "-and on the very next day sent a further message, " Shall leave to-night for the Transvaal ".

The next day I got my studio telegram asking me to return for the picture!

That evening Ferris received a telegram: " The last coupling and final adjustment was made and steam turned on at six o ’ clock this evening one complete revolution of the big wheel was made everything working satisfactory twenty minutes time was taken for the revolution — I congratulate you upon its complete success midway is wildly enthusiastic ".

* 1961: Robert Rauschenberg sent a telegram to the Galerie Iris Clert which said: ' This is a portrait of Iris Clert if I say so.

At 00: 00 HKT 1 July 1997 ( 16: 00 GMT, 30 June 1997 ), he sent the following telegram: I have relinquished the administration of this government.

The commission was given evidence of the Italian policy of systematic terrorism and Graziani ’ s self-admitted intention to execute all Amharas authorities, and cited a telegram from Graziani to General Nasi, in which he had written, “ Keep in mind also that I have already aimed at the total destruction of Abyssinian chiefs and notables and that this should be carried out completely in your territories .” The UN commission agreed that there was a prima facie case against eight Italians including Graziani.

King invited Niebuhr to participate in the Selma to Montgomery March in 1965, and Niebuhr responded by telegram: ‘‘ Only a severe stroke prevents me from accepting … I hope there will be a massive demonstration of all the citizens with conscience in favor of the elemental human rights of voting and freedom of assembly ’’ ( Niebuhr, 19 March 1965 ).

During World War I, Dobbie happened to have been the staff officer on duty in November 1918 and his is the only signature on the cease-fire telegram that was sent to all troops.

President Lincoln sent Grant a telegram on April 7: " Gen. Sheridan says ' If the thing is pressed I think that Lee will surrender.

The following day Jorn sent this telegram to the president of the Guggenheim, Harry F. Guggenheim: GO TO HELL BASTARD -- STOP -- REFUSE PRIZE -- STOP -- NEVER ASKED FOR IT -- STOP -- AGAINST ALL DECENCY MIX ARTIST AGAINST HIS WILL IN YOUR PUBLICITY -- STOP -- I WANT PUBLIC CONFIRMATION NOT TO HAVE PARTICIPATED IN YOUR RIDICULOUS GAME.

While Oslin created the singing telegram because he thought " that messages should be fun ," he recalled that he " was angrily informed I was making a laughingstock of the company.

They consisted of over 340 boxes of documents that featured her handwritten notes on yellow legal pads for I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, a 1982 telegram from Coretta Scott King, fan mail, and personal and professional correspondence from colleagues such as her editor Robert Loomis.

The tone in Venizelos ' telegram and that in the answer from Constantine that followed to announce the final agreement with the Turks, is widely considered as the start of the conflict between the two men that would lead Greece into the National Schism during World War I.

At the last second I dropped my sights from the bare chest and bright red circle to the chest of his pony.

I would turn away from my writing in the hope of getting a good look at them but I never quite succeeded.

Now, here was something of obvious importance to me, yet when I reached for the tickets he snatched them away from my hand.

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.

I kept circling the block hoping to see, from the street behind it, the rear of the hall.

I've got to take Danny away from Clayton before I lose him altogether.

Rod shifted his eager eyes from the milling group out in the circle long enough to reply, `` I ain't much of a hand for Dare-Base and Farmer-in-the-Dell, but I'd sure like to get in on the handhold and wrestles ''.

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.

I saw Johnson's bottle snatched from his hand, saw it go in a swirl of foam just behind the second car.

She stood up, pulled the coat from her shoulders and started to slide it off, then let out a high-pitched scream and I let out a low-pitched, wobbling sound like a muffler blowing out.

I quit work at my usual hour as if this day was no different from other days.

Shortly before nine I drove my jalopy to the street facing the Lake and parked the car in shadows far enough away from the rendezvous corner but near enough to keep the corner in clear view.

I heard a cry from a stoker as a pillar of flame leaped from a hatch and tongued the man's bare back.

My friends and I come from a ship which was destroyed by fire.

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.

I know this from my talks with him ''.

I write about Northern liberals from considerable personal experience.

The Australian stopped trying to talk a pidgin I could understand, and spoke strange words from deep in his chest.