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`` I could use some help '', Morgan said finally, `` but I can't afford to pay you anything.
`` I know '', Jones said dejectedly.
`` I don't have many strays coming to my front door '', he said.
When they were finally satisfied, Jones said, `` I think he's going to give us work ''.
She said, `` I guess the Lord looks out for fools, drunkards, and innocents ''.
He stopped, embarrassed, and Morgan said, `` I understand that, but I don't savvy why you'd go off and leave your jobs in the first place ''.
`` All my life '', he said, `` I tried.
`` I hate to leave my garden '', Gavin said.
`` That was a terrible thing to do '', I said to Oso.
`` But that was war '', I said.
`` I think Montero did right '', Amy said firmly.
`` I saw your fire '', she said, speaking slowly, making an effort to control her anger.
I meant what I said about that fire.
`` I don't mind washing dishes now and then '', he said pleasantly.
`` I ought to '' -- he said.
`` I said go home, Joseph.
I had always, I said, hankered after working hard with my hands.
He said in a studied voice, `` I didn't do it for you.
`` Why, I meant what I said '', Lord declared.
Finally Hernandez said, `` I could offer you advice, Tomas, but you wouldn't heed it ''.

I and O.K.
To this meek conjugation Nicolas had replied, `` O.K. I can use this blanket.

I and so
And you wanted no part of me when I had so much to give.
`` I made you so you could stand up.
I remember being told it would happen so fast people would think it took place overnight.
`` Not a danged thing but rattlesnakes, so I reckon I'll get the boss rattler to help me ''.
Now turn around so I can see your face ''.
I just wanted to hear you say so ''.
`` 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.
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.
She was still hugging the stained coat around her, so I said, `` Relax, let me take your things.
I was so scared well, I just ran to my car and came here ''.
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.
`` And I so want the part '', she said.
I worked for my Uncle ( an Uncle by marriage so you will not think this has a mild undercurrent of incest ) who ran one of those antique shops in New Orleans' Vieux Carre, the old French Quarter.
`` I guess so '', she said.
I think I have a way so we can carry on without his suspecting us ''.
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 and now
God in Heaven, I can't refuse you now.
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.
`` Hell, that's all right, buddy '', the Indian ( I now guessed ) said.
There had been a good second or two during which my muffler had been blowing out, and now I was certain I'd seen her somewhere before.
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 ; ;
and now I think we can use the knowledge they passed on to us.
`` And now '', said Tilghman with deadly calm, `` I'll repeat what I said.
I been riding train for a ways now ''.
I followed them in the jeep and now they did not care.
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 ''!!
`` I have just come from viewing a man who had made the fortune of his country, but now is working all night in order to support his family '', he reflected.
And so I would only touch upon it now ( much as I have long wanted to write a book about it ).
Both I and my feelings come up out of a chain of events that fan out into the past into sources that are ultimately very unlike the entity which I now am.
The Commission seems to represent the viewpoint of what I would call the unconscious liberal, but not unconscious enough, to invoke the now taboo symbolism of socialism.
If I now risk some comparisons with Sons And Lovers let it be clear that I am not comparing the two works or judging their merits ; ;
Yet this passion for passion, now that I look back on it with passion spent, seems somewhat overblown and operatic, though as a diva Miss Millay perfectly controlled her notes.
I can see us now.
I fled, however, not from what might have been the natural fear of being unable to disguise from you that the things about my bridegroom -- in the sense you meant the word `` things '' -- which you had been galvanizing yourself to tell me as a painful part of your maternal duty were things which I had already insisted upon finding out for myself ( despite, I may now say, the unspeakable awkwardness of making the discovery on principle, yes, on principle, and in cold blood ) because I was resolved, as a modern woman, not to be a mollycoddle waiting for Life but to seize Life by the throat.

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