`` I don't have many strays coming to my front door '', he said.

`` 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 ''.

There's someone there I have to see.

I have to think about it.

We'll still have the rifle, and I might be able to round up some more.

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.

I have it with me, right here.

) 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.

I was at once disappointed, although just what I had expected him to look like I could not have explained.

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.

But, by gosh, I want him and I'm going to have him!!

Don't like to bother no one unless we have to, which I figger we do, in your case.

`` I have a little job for you, Charlie.

`` You and I have a little talking to do, Jess.

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.

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 wouldn't have known the difference.

I had the impression that he had read my forms, perhaps several times.

Looking back I saw a gray-haired man getting out of his halted car and trying to read our license number.

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 ; ;

`` When I was in college '', I grinned, `` I remember a poem I had to read in my lit class.

I had read the story many times without asking myself why it affected me or caring why it did.

It would be profitable, I believe, to read these realistic humorists alongside Faulkner's works, the thought being not that he necessarily read them and owed anything to them directly, but rather that they dealt a hundred years ago with a class of people and a type of life which have continued down to our time, to Faulkner's time.

`` My mother read a book right after I was born and there was a Lilian in the book she loved and I became Lilian -- and eventually I became Paula ''.

I was familiar with Pilgrim's Progress, which I read as literature.

A few weeks ago, I read in the Bulletin that there were to be given Chinese classes in Cranston.

The following week, I read in the Sunday paper that the students of Russia begin European and Asian languages in the seventh grade.

Sir -- I read of a man who felt he should not build a fallout shelter in his home because it would be selfish for him to sit secure while his neighbors had no shelters.

Our litterbug ordinances are not enforced and I have yet to read of a conviction in a littering case.

I would hope that Sargent Shriver will encourage everyone entering the Peace Corps to read it.

Then epistolatory me was a foreign correspondent dispatching exciting cables and communiques, full of dash and wit and glamor, quoting from the books I read, imitating the grand styles of the authors recommended by a teacher in whose special, after-school class I was enrolled.

I made inquiries, I read a book of etiquette.

Accordingly, it is the aim of this essay to advance a new theory of imitation ( which I shall call mimesis in order to distinguish it from earlier theories of imitation ) and a new theory of invention ( which I shall call symbol for reasons to be stated hereafter ).

Edgar's will granted David the lands of the former kingdom of Strathclyde or Cumbria, and this was apparently agreed in advance by Edgar, Alexander, David and their brother-in-law Henry I of England.

As they advance, Cromwell exclaimed, looking over the House, " You are no Parliament ; I say you are no Parliament ; begone, and give place to honester men.

So furious were the Byzantine officials at this harsh rejection of the wishes of their emperor and patriarch that they threatened to roast Eugene, just as they had roasted Pope Martin I. Eugene was saved from the fate of his predecessor by the advance of the Muslims, who took Rhodes in 654 and defeated Constans himself in the naval battle of Phoenix ( 655 ).

Pesky again described Williams ' acumen in the advance training for which Pesky personally did not qualify: " I heard Ted literally tore the sleeve target to shreds with his angle dives.

I must have shown that I was not only puzzled but crestfallen, at this exception to what looked like a very pretty rule of stellar characteristics ; but Pickering smiled upon me, and said: " It is just these exceptions that lead to an advance in our knowledge ", and so the white dwarfs entered the realm of study!

* June – Battle of Verona: The Visigoths under command of king Alaric I invade Italy again and advance through the Brenner Pass.

Leo, meanwhile, felt the need of staying the advance of the Ottoman sultan, Selim I, who was threatening western Europe, and made elaborate plans for a crusade.

Marshal MacMahon took command of I Corps ( 4 infantry divisions ) near Wissembourg, Marshal François Canrobert brought VI Corps ( 4 infantry divisions ) to Châlons-sur-Marne in northern France as a reserve and to guard against a Prussian advance through Belgium.

He told General Abel Douay, commander of MacMahon's 2nd Division, on 1 August that " The information I have received makes me suppose that the enemy has no considerable forces very near his advance posts, and has no desire to take the offensive ".

An attack of this nature was not a breakthrough operation ; the German defensive position Flandern I lay 10, 000 – 12, 000 yards behind the front line and would not be attacked on the first day, nonetheless it was more ambitious than Plumer's earlier plan, which had involved an advance of 1, 000 – 1, 750 yards.

This advance was quickly ushered into service, in the Fokker E. I ( Eindecker, or monoplane, Mark 1 ), the first single seat fighter aircraft to combine a reasonable maximum speed with an effective armament ; Max Immelmann scored the first confirmed kill in an Eindecker on 1 August.

I couldn't ask for anything better ," said co-producer Robert Sallin of the advance audience's reaction.

Unless troops from the Königsberg area ( I, XVII and I Reserve Corps ) could be moved to check this advance, the Germans were in serious danger of being cut off.

Nicholas Mystikos became the leading member of the regency for the young emperor, and as such had to face the advance of Simeon I of Bulgaria on Constantinople.

* Seleucus I Nicator expands his kingdom throughout Persia as far east as India, but his advance is eventually halted by Chandragupta Maurya, the founder of the Maurya dynasty of India.

When a company was needed to lead the advance on the bridge which was defended by the British regulars, Captain Davis was heard to reply, " I haven't a man who is afraid to go.

The rapid advance of technology has caught many workers off guard, and they find that " the bar was raised and I didn't see it coming.

The crossbow was an important military advance on the older short bow and was the favoured weapon by the time of Richard I ; many crossbows and vast numbers of quarrels were needed to supply royal forces, in turn requiring larger scale iron production.

Unlike some programs that advance the age of a newborn over a short period of time, I Love Lucy allowed the Little Ricky character to grow up in real time.

From 1968 on, the Series I XJ saw minor changes, first in 1973 ( to Series II ), 1979 ( Series III ), a complete redesign for 1986 / 1987 in XJ40, further modifications in 1995 ( X300 ), in 1997 with V8-power ( X308 ), and a major advance in 2003 with an industry-first aluminium monocoque-chassis ( X350 ).