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I and tell
The charge, I tell you ''!!
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.
I knew that three or four of them were almost always present in the hall, but what they were doing, and exactly where, I could not tell.
I almost didn't tell you ''.
`` I want to tell you something Thomas DeMontez Lord.
`` 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.
And I will greatly appreciate it if you will not tell your husband.
But when it happens to you like that, I tell you, and you're a hundred feet from where you thought you were -- well, it makes you think.
If the old fool argues about the price, tell him I shall order my husband not to treat him as a patient any longer.
Said: `` There are things I must tell you about this man you are marrying which he does not know himself ''.
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.
`` I've been in government and I can tell some pretty hairy stories about personnel difficulties, so I know what a problem he was ''.
`` I can tell you this much '', he said.
I shall tell of it later on.

I and you
`` I could use some help '', Morgan said finally, `` but I can't afford to pay you anything.
You fell down in front of the house, and I carried you in.
I gave you a drink and then you went to sleep ''.
`` I mean, we don't have any way to get there and we can't expect you to quit work just to take us to town ''.
I saw you driftin away -- but I tried.
And you wanted no part of me when I had so much to give.
God in Heaven, I can't refuse you now.
`` I made you what you are '', Gavin whispered.
`` I made you so you could stand up.
I made you a man ''.
`` That quirt -- I ought to use it on you, where it would do the most good.
`` I thought I told you to stay home ''.
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.
`` I won't even try to thank you ''.
He said in a studied voice, `` I didn't do it for you.

I and know
`` I know '', Jones said dejectedly.
I don't know yet, it's crazy ; ;
`` I know him.
I don't know what goes on around here, and I don't care.
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 know you've got a grudge against me, and maybe I can't blame you.
`` I don't know, Tom.
`` I don't know, Mr. Brenner '', he said haltingly, beginning to get an inkling of Brenner's plans.
I don't know what you're up to, but when Brenner '' --
`` I don't know nothin' about him ''.
I suppose you don't know anything about a piece of two-by-four, either ; ;
`` I know you ain't ''!!
I said, `` Do we know each other, Miss ''??
He caught up with me once and grabbed me, but I was all covered with zing -- it's very slippery, you know ''.
`` I didn't know.
`` How would I know??
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.
Why she married him I do not know.
`` I know.

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