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I and had
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 and always
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.
Ramey smiled but he thought to himself, I always see me too.
At a party an English intellectual -- so-called -- asked me why I write always about distress.
But all this, I am well aware, is the bel canto of love, and although I have always liked to think that it was to the bel canto and to that alone that I listened, I know well enough that it was not.
The daughter, Lilly, was a very good friend of mine and I always had hopes that someday she and Meltzer would find each other.
I would have liked the town and the busyness of its people but I always followed Lilly into the peace of the silent and unstaring road.
I had always thought of that lovable man as many years older than myself, although he was perhaps only twenty years older, and he confirmed my feeling, along with the feeling of both my sons, that teachers of the classics are invariably endearing.
If it proclaims that the best is yet to be, it always arouses, at least in the young, either a suspicious question or perhaps the exclamation of the Negro youth who saw on a tombstone the inscription, `` I am not dead but sleeping ''.
But I will also remind them that I have always been inclined to skepticism, to a kind of Laodicean lack of commitment so far as public affairs are concerned ; ;
At about the age of twelve I became a Spencerian liberal, and I have always considered myself a liberal of some kind even though the definition has changed repeatedly since Spencer became a reactionary.
The concern they felt for me was such as I shall never forget and for which I will always be grateful.
( He always smiles -- at least at visitors, I gather.
`` I imagine you're always battling in school ''.
`` I'm dressed as I always am '', Rousseau said.
What I did know was that Precious was always around.

I and said
`` I could use some help '', Morgan said finally, `` but I can't afford to pay you anything.
`` I know '', Jones said dejectedly.
`` I don't have many strays coming to my front door '', he said.
When they were finally satisfied, Jones said, `` I think he's going to give us work ''.
She said, `` I guess the Lord looks out for fools, drunkards, and innocents ''.
He stopped, embarrassed, and Morgan said, `` I understand that, but I don't savvy why you'd go off and leave your jobs in the first place ''.
`` All my life '', he said, `` I tried.
`` I hate to leave my garden '', Gavin said.
`` That was a terrible thing to do '', I said to Oso.
`` But that was war '', I said.
`` I think Montero did right '', Amy said firmly.
`` I saw your fire '', she said, speaking slowly, making an effort to control her anger.
I meant what I said about that fire.
`` I don't mind washing dishes now and then '', he said pleasantly.
`` I ought to '' -- he said.
`` I said go home, Joseph.
He said in a studied voice, `` I didn't do it for you.
`` Why, I meant what I said '', Lord declared.
Finally Hernandez said, `` I could offer you advice, Tomas, but you wouldn't heed it ''.

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