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`` I never felt better in my life '', Fiske blustered.
I would turn away from my writing in the hope of getting a good look at them but I never quite succeeded.
) 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.
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.
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 ''!!
I never wear anything at all.
`` No, I never did see his face.
I can never pronounce it ''.
Though I had a great dread of the island and felt I would never leave it alive, I eagerly wrote down everything she told me about its women.
Never, never did I offer him the exclusive rights.
`` I never heard that ''.
I never heard of a poll being taken on the question.
`` As an independent American I considered all who were not for us, and you amongst the rest, as against us, yet be assured that John Jay never ceased to be the friend of Peter Van Schaack ''.
His first inaugural address speaks of `` my country whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love ''.
But I would never have thought of it myself ''.
Then, after overtures to accept a settlement and go through with a divorce, Miriam gave a ghastly echo of Mrs. Micawber by suddenly stating, `` I will never leave Mr. Wright ''.
From her California headquarters, Miriam fired back, `` I shall never divorce Mr. Wright, to permit him to marry Olga Milanoff ''.
), I have never wanted to know what you knew of passion.
You probably would not remember, since you never seemed to remember even the same moments as I, much less their intensity, one sunny midday on Fifth Avenue when you had set out with me for some final shopping less than a week before the wedding you staged for me with such reluctance at the Farm.

I and saw
`` Mr. Morgan, it's the best-looking food I ever saw ''.
I saw you driftin away -- but I tried.
I saw that letter.
Every time I closed my eyes, I saw Gray Eyes rushing at me with a knife.
I saw the pony fall like a stone and the young warrior flew over its head, bouncing like a rubber ball.
I saw Little Billy rise and fire almost point blank and an Indian's face became shattered flesh and bone.
I saw the clergyman kneel for a moment by the twitching body of the man he had shot, then run back to his position.
`` I saw your fire '', she said, speaking slowly, making an effort to control her anger.
With distaste I saw him assume a pompous air.
When I went for my interview with the director I saw why.
Then I saw the father's head slightly turn ; ;
Suddenly a treble auto horn tootley-toot-tootled, and, thumbing hopefully, I saw emergent in windshield flash: red lips, streaming silk of blonde hair and -- ah, trembling confusion of hope, apprehension, despair -- the leering face of old Herry.
When I fell on my back, I saw a vulture hovering.
Looking back I saw a gray-haired man getting out of his halted car and trying to read our license number.
I saw Johnson's bottle snatched from his hand, saw it go in a swirl of foam just behind the second car.
One Monday morning I saw him approach the store with a woman and introduce me to her as my new Aunt.
And that is the way I first saw her when my Uncle brought her into his antique store.
I thought I saw a faint surge of color rise to her neck and quickly suffuse her cheeks.

I and him
I believed him.
Next to him was a young boy I was sure had sat near me at one of the trading sessions.
In my sights I watched him looming bigger and bigger.
Now under me I could see him for what he really was, a boy dressed up in streaks of paint.
`` I know him.
Once, pressing him, I learned that his job was only part-time, in the afternoons when nothing went on in the hall.
At last, when I put it to him directly, the clerk was forced to admit that the delay in my case was unusual.
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 was at once disappointed, although just what I had expected him to look like I could not have explained.
`` I can't leave him there.
Donald Kruger would like nothing better than to hold him as hostage, and I wouldn't entrust a snake to his tender care.
But, by gosh, I want him and I'm going to have him!!
I meant him no harm.
I've got to take Danny away from Clayton before I lose him altogether.
I heard o' Texas cattlemen wrappin' a cow thief up in green hides and lettin' the sun shrink 'em and squeeze him to death.
`` I don't know nothin' about him ''.
`` So help me, Crouch, I'd like to kill you where you stand, but, before I do, I'm going to hear you admit killing him.
`` I ain't ragging him ''!!
I didn't get a good look at him at all, his back was to me, and I was so scared It was just somebody in a man's suit.

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