I gave you a drink and then you went to sleep ''.

I went to the hall in the afternoons only, on these preliminary matters.

Once, pressing him, I learned that his job was only part-time, in the afternoons when nothing went on in the hall.

When I went for my interview with the director I saw why.

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.

There I got my Colt Special and shoulder harness, slipped my coat on, and went back into the front room.

As I went out, I could hear water pouring in the shower.

I heard subsequently that my Uncle and Aunt had dinner in a nearby restaurant in the French Quarter after which he went home to get into his costume to keep the date.

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

I think it is essential, however, to pinpoint here the difference between the two concepts of sovereignty that went to war in 1861 -- if only to see better how imperative is our need today to clarify completely our far worse confusion on this subject.

That night after supper I went back over to 48 Spruce Street -- Ralph and I at that time were living at 168 Chestnut -- and Ralph went with me.

Besides Church and Sunday School I went to out-of-door meetings on the sidewalk at the church door.

I went to an afternoon service at the Aj.

I went to the Christian Endeavor Society and to the evening service of the church.

I went to visit Alfred in the Kingston Hospital a few times.

The first time I went there he asked me to bring him water from Flagler's well -- water that reminded him of his first days in the mountains -- and before I came the next time I filled a five-gallon jug for him and brought it to the hospital.

He set down that `` I gave Mr. Greene a pynte of muskadell and a roll of bread that last morning I went to have his company to Master Attorney ''.

I saw the clergyman kneel for a moment by the twitching body of the man he had shot, then run back to his position.

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.

No sooner would I turn my head away from the counter before he would address me, at times quite sharply, in order to bring back my attention.

`` I feel like getting back to town, that's what I feel like!!

If I don't come back in the house, Breed's going to '' --

`` Got a lot to tend to, but I'll get back quick as I can '', he assured her.

I waved with discretion and moderation to the vague golden faces fading through rising dust and the distortions of the back window glass.

I would have foregone my romantic chances rather than leave a friend sweltering and dusty and -- Well, at least I wouldn't have shouted back a taunt.

I drew back, drawing back my foot for a kick.

`` Hell, yes '', I roared back between dusty lips.

When I fell on my back, I saw a vulture hovering.

Looking back I saw a gray-haired man getting out of his halted car and trying to read our license number.

I looked back at pale ovals framed in the elongated oval of the car's rear window.

Everybody left and I stayed in the pool, then Lou came back alone and leaped into the pool too.

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.

It'll probably be at least an hour or two before I can check back with you.

`` They knew I was a good sharecrop farmer back in Carolina, but out West was a chance to build a real farm of our own.

I heard a cry from a stoker as a pillar of flame leaped from a hatch and tongued the man's bare back.

`` If I don't come out within half an hour ride back to town and bring out a posse ''.

I had the impression that he had read my forms, perhaps several times.

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 ; ;

`` When I was in college '', I grinned, `` I remember a poem I had to read in my lit class.

I had read the story many times without asking myself why it affected me or caring why it did.

It would be profitable, I believe, to read these realistic humorists alongside Faulkner's works, the thought being not that he necessarily read them and owed anything to them directly, but rather that they dealt a hundred years ago with a class of people and a type of life which have continued down to our time, to Faulkner's time.

`` My mother read a book right after I was born and there was a Lilian in the book she loved and I became Lilian -- and eventually I became Paula ''.

I was familiar with Pilgrim's Progress, which I read as literature.

A few weeks ago, I read in the Bulletin that there were to be given Chinese classes in Cranston.

The following week, I read in the Sunday paper that the students of Russia begin European and Asian languages in the seventh grade.

Sir -- I read of a man who felt he should not build a fallout shelter in his home because it would be selfish for him to sit secure while his neighbors had no shelters.

Our litterbug ordinances are not enforced and I have yet to read of a conviction in a littering case.

I would hope that Sargent Shriver will encourage everyone entering the Peace Corps to read it.

`` I have read an advance copy of the Snow book which is to be titled, ' Science And Government.

Then epistolatory me was a foreign correspondent dispatching exciting cables and communiques, full of dash and wit and glamor, quoting from the books I read, imitating the grand styles of the authors recommended by a teacher in whose special, after-school class I was enrolled.

I made inquiries, I read a book of etiquette.