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 ''.

I didn't understand why, Clay.

Though I doubted that he would understand me, I told the director my motives for applying.

I understand how you feel about the child.

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 ; ;

`` I don't understand '', she insisted.

Fruit compote: `` If you think I would understand it '' ; ;

The Australian stopped trying to talk a pidgin I could understand, and spoke strange words from deep in his chest.

But on one occasion when I encountered a similar fantasy in a little boy who was my patient I began to understand the uncanny effects of this story.

as I understand it, Mr. Hammarskjold wanted outside advice.

`` We were requested by the Secretary General, as I understand it, to discuss with you such matters as appear to us to be relevant, and we are not of course either a formal group or a committee in the sense of being guided by any rules or regulations of the Secretariat.

Anyone who has watched children develop a taste for literature will understand what I mean.

`` I understand [ Hearst ] is a candidate for Presidential honors '', Devery said without cracking a smile.

Many of my friends at the time thought that I had received a well-deserved condemnation when Lincoln Steffens denounced me in a review of one of my books as a perfect example of the obsolete man who could understand and sympathize only with the dead past.

He said to the Secretary, `` I understand you came from a little Pennsylvania town near Wilkes-Barre.

`` Reverend '', he said, `` I think you don't quite understand the situation here.

I don't understand why a white hotel should be down here ''.

`` I understand ''.

`` I goddamn well understand ''.

`` I goddamn well understand.

It was dark and, I sensed, very large ; ;

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.

Forced to realize that this was the end of a very short line I scanned a road marker and discovered what the end of a slightly longer line would be for the old Mexican: Moriarty, New Mexico.

I got a coin between my thumb and forefinger, leaned my elbows in a very natural and casual manner on top of the truck cab and flipped my little missile.

He caught up with me once and grabbed me, but I was all covered with zing -- it's very slippery, you know ''.

Now I wish to enter the American market, where the competition is very strong.

The fear of disease was formerly very much the kind of fear I have tried to describe.

I told him no, that I had had a very happy childhood.

When I try to work out my reasons for feeling that this passage is of critical significance, I come up with the following ideas, which I shall express very briefly here and revert to in a later essay.

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.

This combined experience, on a foundation of very average, I assure you, intelligence and background, has helped me do things many well-informed people would bet heavily against.

`` I knew I was carrying on with abstraction to its very end -- for me '', he said of the two years' output in Virginia.

I recoil from the very thought.

`` Dear Miss Steichen: It is a very good letter you send me -- softens the intensity of this guerilla warfare I am carrying on up here.

I had had difficulties from the very first day.

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.

That was a very absurd and annoying situation in which I was placed by W. M.'s curious methods of handling me.

I know you are very busy now, you are writing a great deal & your book is coming out, isn't it??

I'm well aware that you've got a pedigree as long as my leg, and that I don't amount to anything.

I was so scared well, I just ran to my car and came here ''.

I must say the figure was well made up.

If it were not that I knew who it was I could have mistaken it for my Aunt so well did her clothes fit him.

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.

Curly hair, high cheekbones, wide gnomelike mouth, a pair of drummer's blocky hands, and a body that said well, maybe I can wrestle you for ten minutes -- but then I'm finished.

In any case, Miss Millay's sweet-throated bitterness, her variations on the theme that the world was not only well lost for love but even well lost for lost love, her constant and wonderfully tragic posture, so unlike that of Fitzgerald since it required no scenery or props, drew from the me that I was when I fell upon her verses an overwhelming yea.

But all this, I am well aware, is the bel canto of love, and although I have always liked to think that it was to the bel canto and to that alone that I listened, I know well enough that it was not.

When I speak of how Shann felt, I know well.

But I have been blest with excellent spirits, and to-day have been running about the deck, and dancing in our room for exercise, as well as ever ''.

Much to Damon Runyon's amazement, as well as my own, I got along splendidly with the Hetman ; ;

And this, I think, holds for values as well as life styles.