`` That was a terrible thing to do '', I said to Oso.

`` But that was war '', I said.

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.

Next to him was a young boy I was sure had sat near me at one of the trading sessions.

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.

I was delighted with Paula Prentiss' comedy performance, which was as fresh and unstilted as one's highest hopes might ask.

`` I don't mind at all '', he said, delighted with her attention.

:" I devoured Lamark ... his theories delighted me ...

James's tone delighted Elizabeth, who responded: " So trust I that you will not doubt but that your last letters are so acceptably taken as my thanks cannot be lacking for the same, but yield them to you in grateful sort ".

So I was really delighted to do it.

In a speech to the Hawarden Amateur Horticultural Society on 17 August 1876, Gladstone said that " I am delighted to see how many young boys and girls have come forward to obtain honourable marks of recognition on this occasion ,— if any effectual good is to be done to them, it must be done by teaching and encouraging them and helping them to help themselves.

When Mary started to cry again, he said, " Madam, in God's presence I speak: I never delighted in the weeping of any of God's creatures ; yea I can scarcely well abide the tears of my own boys whom my own hand corrects, much less can I rejoice in your Majesty's weeping.

Wilson was delighted with the adaptation, saying: " I was thunderstruck at what a magnificent job they did in capturing the exact tone and mixture of fantasy and reality in the book.

( He is delighted when she says, " I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.

Hepburn was delighted that Tracy was available for Woman of the Year, saying " I was just damned grateful he was willing to work with me.

" Co-founder Jann Wenner later said " one of the small sad things is we didn't do it in New York in the first place ," but later added " I am absolutely delighted that the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum is in Cleveland.

Napoleon was delighted that his wife survived the ordeal and said: " I had rather never have any more children than see her suffer so much again.

I knew I was slaughtering it, but everyone seemed delighted that I was making the attempt.

50 years later he was delighted when Cooper and I told him that we had come upon this sculpture in a collection that also included the original plaster of his cubist head.

These cartoon characters in the Daily Mirror were well known to all the soldiers, and in his best-selling book about his small irregular unit " Popski " said "... I was delighted with my nickname ...".

I shall be delighted to see these instances of moral eminence so multiplied as to prove that the want of talent observed in them is merely the effect of their degraded condition, and not proceeding from any difference in the structure of the parts on which intellect depends.

John I delighted in tournaments and was always eager to take part in jousts.

The work was sometimes overseen by his wife Katherine Briçonnet, who delighted in hosting French nobility, including King Francis I on two occasions.

During the period in which Kenya's interior was being forcibly opened up for British settlement, an officer in the Imperial British East Africa Company asserted, " There is only one way to improve the Wakikuyu that is wipe them out ; I should be only too delighted to do so, but we have to depend on them for food supplies ", and colonial officers such as Richard Meinertzhagen wrote of how, on occasion, they massacred Kikuyu by the hundred.

If I could make myself feel the same way

I said that it didn't make any difference to me either, as far as I knew.

I clapped the big man with the bleached hair on his shoulder and said heartily, hoping it would make an impression on the women: `` This one is the maku Frayne.

`` Why '', he went on, `` when Rob asked me if he could make his dive on this trip, I didn't think twice about it.

`` Can I make you one ''??

I will make him distributor for all of Florida -- a big market.

And when I make the dive again '' -- He paused ; ;

I am naive, they say, to make use of such words.

The stink is all the same to me, but I really think they can make one another out blindfolded ''.

I should like, by the way, to make it clear that I am not using the word `` Persians '' carelessly.

I consider it the center of the world and make it a point to be there once a year ''.

When it comes to this, I shall prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty -- to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, without the base alloy of hypocrisy '' ( His emphasis )

But I suspect that the old Roman was referring to change made under military occupation -- the sort of change which Tacitus was talking about when he said, `` They make a desert, and call it peace '' ( `` Solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant ''.

One of the obvious conclusions we can make on the basis of the last election, I suppose, is that we, the majority, were dissatisfied with Eisenhower conservatism.

The fact that he has cast over those materials the light of a skeptical mind does not make him any the less Southern, I rather think, for the South has been no more solid than other regions except in the political and related areas where patronage and force and intimidation and fear may produce a surface uniformity.

To you, for instance, the word innocence, in this connotation, probably retained its Biblical, or should I say technical sense, and therefore I suppose I must make myself quite clear by saying that I lost -- or rather handed over -- what you would have considered to be my innocence two weeks before I was legally entitled, and in fact by oath required, to hand it over along with what other goods and bads I had.

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.

`` the matters to be considered are obviously of a grave character, and I therefore respectfully request that the hearing be postponed for two weeks in order that I might make adequate preparation ''.