The big man with the whitened hair murmured something: his words sounded as if they were in the Manu tongue, which I recognized, having studied the dialect in my Anthropology 6, class at the University of Chicago.

The Lenten significance of the Gospel account of Zacchaeus is that it introduces the themes of pious zeal ( Zacchaeus ' climbing up the sycamore tree ; Jesus ' words: " Zacchaeus, make haste "), restraint ( Jesus ' words: " come down "), making a place for Jesus in the heart (" I must abide at thy house "), overcoming gossip (" And when they saw it, they all murmured, saying, That he was gone to be guest with a man that is a sinner "), repentance and almsgiving (" And Zacchaeus stood, and said unto the Lord: Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor ; and if I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold "), forgiveness and reconciliation (" And Jesus said unto him, This day is salvation come to this house, forsomuch as he also is a son of Abraham "), and the reason for the Passion and Resurrection (" For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost ").

Noticing Coward's eyes flicker momentarily across the soldiers, she murmured to him: " I wouldn't if I were you, Noël ; they count them before they put them out.

Scriptwriter Ernest Lehman recalled that in the course of screenwriting, Hitchcock " murmured wistfully, ' I always wanted to do a chase across the faces of Mount Rushmore.

On the 29 December he murmured, “ I can see purple flowers blooming on the ceiling ” and closed 75 years of a life filled with ups and downs.

< p >“ Yes, well ,” he murmured, “ in that case I see you really can ’ t leave .”

" To which Franck is supposed to have murmured a little sadly, " I fancy I have done rather better things since then .".

An instant later he returned and murmured: " I simply cannot tear myself away from her.

::' I will indeed send her to school soon ,' murmured Mrs. Reed, sotto voce ; and gathering up her work, she abruptly quitted the apartment.

Lord Lindsey himself murmured, " If it please God I should survive, I never will fight in the same field with boys again!

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

`` I want to tell you something Thomas DeMontez Lord.

`` That I can't answer, for I can't imagine something like this happening to me.

Like Luis, I can't see something like this happening to me.

`` Moriarty '', my driver suddenly exclaimed with something so definite, so final in his tone I once more repeated the absurdity, mustering all my latent powers of hypocrisy to sound convinced.

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.

`` I really do have something important to tell you, Mr. Scott.

If you tell him I made a pass at you he might think you misunderstood something I said or did, so instead of just telling him I made a pass, say I tried to date you and that you agreed so you could prove to him what a louse I really am.

`` I know something about Eromonga.

But I think that something more than this is involved.

The myth of the Southern plantation has had only a tangential relation with actuality, as Francis Pendleton Gaines showed forty years ago, and I suspect it has had a far narrower acceptance as something real than has generally been supposed.

I mean something more like Freud's concept of the utility of `` play '' to a small child: he plays `` house '' or `` doctor '' or `` fireman '' as a way of mastering slightly frightening experiences, reliving them imaginatively until they are under control.

There had been something sinister about him that warned me against him, -- I had never felt that way about any other boy, -- but when he uttered his name on the telephone I had forgotten this and I was glad to do what he asked of me.

I have to think about it.

I meant what I said about that fire.

I don't know what makes you think you can get away with this kind of business, and I don't care about that, either.

Sometimes I was aware of people moving about in the darkness.

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

My future lay solely with the hall, yet what did I know about the hall at this point??

For weeks I wandered about this neighborhood of warehouses and garages, truck terminals and taxi repair shops, gasoline pumps and longshoremen's lunch counters, yet never did I cease to feel myself a stranger there.

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 understand how you feel about the child.

`` I don't know nothin' about him ''.

I suppose you don't know anything about a piece of two-by-four, either ; ;

`` No, I remembered reading about you in the papers and that you lived here, and when it happened all I could think of was '' -- This time she stopped the rush of words herself.

I spun about and clattered through the front room to the door.

Sometimes I wondered vaguely what he did about women for my Aunt, by blood, had died some years ago, but neither of us said anything.

Even as she was telling me about it I became aware of a give-away flush that suffused her neck and moved upwards to her cheeks, and subconsciously I realized that when she entered the store she did not switch on the lights.

I was standing beside her, watching the outspread palms and wondering about the old horsehair sofa against the wall on which he sometimes napped.

I was thinking about that.

When I show up he will know you are a good wife to have told him about it ''.