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I and remember
I remember being told it would happen so fast people would think it took place overnight.
Later I would remember what this pompous little man had told me about the worth of a ticket.
It was a disturbingly familiar face, too, but I couldn't remember where we had met.
`` When I was in college '', I grinned, `` I remember a poem I had to read in my lit class.
I don't even remember who wrote it but it was one of those 15th or 16th century poets.
`` Seems to me I don't remember altering any law about that ''.
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.
When I returned to make my report, the Hetman did not remember having sent me on the secret mission.
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 cannot remember Dr. Gregory's reply, if, indeed, he made one.
After they had paid all his debts and the funeral costs, Ralph and Fred had some fourteen thousand dollars, as I remember, with which to pay the bequests.
I remember him pointing out of the window and saying that he wished he could live to see another spring but that he wouldn't.
I have known some men and women who said that the selves they are told about or even remember seem utter strangers to them now ; ;
I would, however, like to suggest that, wrong though I may be, the tendency to see dilemmas rather than solutions is one of which I have been a victim ever since I can remember, and therefore not merely a senile phenomenon.
Apropos of what some would call cynicism, I remember an anecdote the source of which I forget.
All I could remember was Billie Dove pasted over the ceiling of my big brother's room.
I and once
I was at once disappointed, although just what I had expected him to look like I could not have explained.
I found a trooper once the Apache had spread-eagled on an ant hill, and another time we ran across some teamsters they'd caught, tied upside down on their own wagon wheels over little fires until their brains was exploded right out o' their skulls.
`` 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.
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 ; ;
He caught up with me once and grabbed me, but I was all covered with zing -- it's very slippery, you know ''.
But a young American has a bath next to his room and I shall ask him if you might use it this once.
`` I suppose '', he muttered, `` I can sell the outfit for enough to send you home to your folks, once we find a settlement ''.
I want you to find Monsieur Prieur at once and give him this money for the boy's purchase.
I consider it the center of the world and make it a point to be there once a year ''.
I have more than once sat cross-legged in the grass through a long summer morning and watched without touching while a poppy bud higher than my head slowly but visibly pushed off its cap, unfolded, and shook out like a banner in the sun its flaming vermilion petals.
But I once again assure all peoples and all nations that the United States, except in defense, will never turn loose this destructive power.
`` Well, I might not get that far '', I told them, `` as actually I have no papers to enter Germany and, as a matter of fact, no permit to return to France once I leave ''.
And as you know, I have no permission to re-enter France once out.
`` You see, once I relinquish the position I've already established here, I couldn't regain it without sacrificing the logic of it ''.
In `` My Song's Young Virgin Date '', for example, Thompson wrote: `` Yea, she that had my song's young virgin date Not now, alas, that noble singular she, I nobler hold, though marred from her once state, Than others in their best integrity.
To the Weston house came once William Allen Neilson, the president of Smith College who had been one of my old professors and who still called me `` Boy '' when I was sixty.
I saw Sedgwick often before his death at ninety-five, -- he had remarried at the age of ninety, -- and he asked me, when once I returned from Rome, if I knew the Cavallinis in the church of St. Cecilia in Trastevere.
I and did
`` I think Montero did right '', Amy said firmly.
Such was my state of mind that I did not question the possibility of this ; ;
This light did not penetrate very far back into the hall, and my eyes were hindered rather than aided by the dim daylight entering through the fan vents when I tried to pick out whatever might be lying, or squatting, on the floor below.
I felt strongly attached to the hall, however, and hardly a day passed when I did not go to look at it from a distance.
I could not cling to my past nor did I wish to.
My future lay solely with the hall, yet what did I know about the hall at this point??
I wished to prepare myself but did not even know what sort of clothes I ought to be wearing.
I did not despair, however ; ;
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.
I did it for the valley.
If I hadn't got Nate stopped when I did, my duds'd all be shot plumb to hell!!
`` No, I never did see his face.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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