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I and knew
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.
Was I sure, he asked, that I knew what I was applying for??
I said that it didn't make any difference to me either, as far as I knew.
How far I knew will shortly become apparent.
Two uniformed officers, a couple of plain-clothesmen I knew, and two other men stood on a gray cement area next to the pool on my left.
Something clicked in this instance, but I treated her circumspectly and I felt that she knew it, for we both kept our distance.
If it were not that I knew who it was I could have mistaken it for my Aunt so well did her clothes fit him.
`` They knew I was a good sharecrop farmer back in Carolina, but out West was a chance to build a real farm of our own.
I came up maybe fifty feet before I knew what was happening ''.
I knew that a conversation with the author would not settle such questions, because a man is not the same as his writing: in the last analysis, the questions had to be settled by the work itself.
`` I knew I was carrying on with abstraction to its very end -- for me '', he said of the two years' output in Virginia.
`` It was then I knew that they were making war against Man, the individual within!!
), I have never wanted to know what you knew of passion.
I knew this knowledge to be corrupting at the time I acquired it ; ;
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 ''.

I and only
under the circumstances I was only too willing to confess all.
I went to the hall in the afternoons only, on these preliminary matters.
Once, pressing him, I learned that his job was only part-time, in the afternoons when nothing went on in the hall.
Although it was dark as usual I could see that the hall had only recently contained a great many people.
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 let up on the accelerator, only to gradually reach again the 60 m.p.h. which would, I hoped, overhaul Herry and the blonde, and as there were cars whose drivers apparently had something more important to catch than had I, Mrs. Major Roebuck settled down to practicing on Corporal Johnson the kittenish wiles she would need when making her duty call on Colonel and Mrs. Somebody in Sante Fe.
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.
Just as I got to my knees, there was again the sound of the fence stretching, and I had time only to start taking my kneeling posture seriously.
Maybe Lou was only unconscious, but right then I thought he must be dead.
But I promised Joyce I would mention her name, if at all, only as a last resort.
I said, `` O.K., so now only Blake knows.
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.
`` Nope, just you, all the time -- sometimes I think it's the only way I'll ever get a decent partner ''.
`` I only said I was hungry.
His London contract was rescinded, and now, he explains cheerfully, as a bright smile lightens his intense, mobile face, `` I conduct only one hundred and twenty concerts ''!!
`` Now that Bruno Walter is virtually in retirement and my dear friend Dimitri Mitropoulos is no longer with us, I am probably the only one -- with the possible exception of Leonard Bernstein -- who has this special affinity for and champions the works of Bruckner and Mahler ''.
I was chairman, the only not youthful participant.
The latter in turn assured him that `` were I arraigned at the bar, and you my judge, I should expect to stand or fall only by the merits of my cause ''.

I and way
`` 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 ''.
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.
If I could make myself feel the same way
But there's one thing I never seen or heard of, one thing I just don't think there is, and that's a sportin' way o' killin' a man ''!!
Seeming much relieved, she smiled one of those worth-waiting-for smiles, and I smiled all the way into the bedroom.
And that is the way I first saw her when my Uncle brought her into his antique store.
I think I have a way so we can carry on without his suspecting us ''.
In the bedroom before the husband and wife find their way to the bed, the lights go on: `` In dull domestic radiance I watch her staring face, still blind, Start wincing in obedience To dirty waters, counters, pots and pans, Waiting below stairs, in her mind ''.
`` You think I got you and Artie and Herr Schaffner all the way out here just for the boat ride??
I do not know if such a way of life can come to be a self-conscious challenge, but I suspect that it can.
I should like, by the way, to make it clear that I am not using the word `` Persians '' carelessly.
I believe that what I do has some effect on his actions and I have learned, in a way, to commune with drunks, but certainly my actions seem to resemble more nearly the performance of a rain dance than the carrying out of an experiment in physics.
Robert Penn Warren puts it this way in `` Brother To Dragons '': `` The recognition of complicity is the beginning of innocence '', where innocence, I think, means about the same thing as redemption.
Whether you experienced the passion of desire I have, of course, no way of knowing, nor indeed have I wished with even the most fleeting fragment of a wish to know, for the fact that one constitutes by one's mere existence so to speak the proof of some sort of passion makes any speculation upon this part of one's parents' experience more immodest, more scandalizing, more deeply unwelcome than an obscenity from a stranger.
She used to tell me, `` When I stand there and look at the flag blowing this way and that way, I have the wonderful, safe feeling that Americans are protected no matter which way the wind blows ''.

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