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I said sure that was what I wanted her to do but she paid no attention.
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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 sure
Next to him was a young boy I was sure had sat near me at one of the trading sessions.
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.
Was I sure, he asked, that I knew what I was applying for??
Rod shifted his eager eyes from the milling group out in the circle long enough to reply, `` I ain't much of a hand for Dare-Base and Farmer-in-the-Dell, but I'd sure like to get in on the handhold and wrestles ''.
In the half darkness I approached cautiously, making sure he did not see me.
`` I was expecting it, sure.
I am sure that none of the effects of this story were consciously employed by Lawrence to describe an oedipal fantasy in childhood.
I shall continue to urge the American people, in the interests of their own security, prosperity and peace, to make sure that their own part of this great project be amply and cheerfully supported.
When he heard that Paul Whiteman was looking for singers to replace the Rhythm Boys, Mercer applied and got the job, `` not for my voice, I'm sure, but because I could write songs and material generally ''.
What I want is to have this evidence come before Congress and if the Attorney General does not report it, as I am very sure he won't, as he has refused to do anything of the kind, I then wish that a committee of seven Representatives be appointed with power to take the evidence.
A special guard was posted at my end of the bridge to make sure I didn't cross, the ludicrousness of the situation being revealed fully in that everyone else -- men, women, and children, dogs, cats, horses, cars, trucks, baby carriages -- could cross Kehl bridge into Kehl without surveillance.
I might not make any money but I'd sure have patients ''.
Besides, in all honesty, I don't know how you can be sure.
I am sure that they did when Eisenhower was President.
My first thought was how had it happened so soon, but I counted back on my fingers and sure enough we'd been living together six weeks.
I am sure he is in raptures ''.
`` And I am not sure that I have any cash -- any money, that is -- but if you will wait just a minute I will write you out a check if I can find my checkbook.
I and was
Still, I was disgusted with myself for agreeing with Montero's methods.
In the brief moment I had to talk to them before I took my post on the ring of defenses, I indicated I was sickened by the methods men employed to live and trade on the river.
Now under me I could see him for what he really was, a boy dressed up in streaks of paint.
Such was my state of mind that I did not question the possibility of this ; ;
under the circumstances I was only too willing to confess all.
I was nearly thirty at the time.
It was dark and, I sensed, very large ; ;
Sometimes I was aware of people moving about in the darkness.
This impressed me, until I realized how limited was his sphere of influence.
I felt certain he was really a spineless little man.
Once, pressing him, I learned that his job was only part-time, in the afternoons when nothing went on in the hall.
In the mornings, I was informed, fluorescent tubes, similar to the one above the counter, illuminated the entire hall.
I was shown, instead, a batch of white tickets of the sort handed out, he told me, every morning.
Now, here was something of obvious importance to me, yet when I reached for the tickets he snatched them away from my hand.
It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.
I felt certain it was self-appointed.
I decided to see no more of the clerk until the processing of my papers was completed.
I was constantly searching for clues around the neighborhood of the hall.
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