`` I won't force Beth to come against her will.

`` Damned if I will.

How far I knew will shortly become apparent.

I worked for my Uncle ( an Uncle by marriage so you will not think this has a mild undercurrent of incest ) who ran one of those antique shops in New Orleans' Vieux Carre, the old French Quarter.

If I even hint at it do you think it will matter that you are his nephew -- and not even a blood nephew ''??

`` I don't want to be thrown out and I don't think I will.

When I show up he will know you are a good wife to have told him about it ''.

And I will greatly appreciate it if you will not tell your husband.

`` If you will pardon, I think it would be better if not.

`` I will give Mr. Roy his due for this dive.

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

His heart was pounding like a mighty dynamo and he was trying to think, his mind seeming to scream at him like a hurt or frightened child, `` How will I do it??

I suppose the reason is a kind of wishful thinking: don't talk about the final stages of Reconstruction and they will take care of themselves.

The design is determined emotionally: `` I must reach into myself for the spring that will send me catapulting recklessly into the chaos of event with which the dance confronts me ''.

`` What I am saying does not mean that there will henceforth be no form in art.

I will assume that we are all aware of the continuing struggle, with its limited and precarious success, toward conservatism.

I will mention two volumes of specific comment on this malaise that appeared last year.

I will reserve discussion of it for a moment, however, to return to President Kennedy.

Hence the prime issue, as I see it, is whether a democratic or free society can master technology for the benefit of mankind, or whether technology will rule and develop its own society compatible with its own needs as a force of nature.

Then, after overtures to accept a settlement and go through with a divorce, Miriam gave a ghastly echo of Mrs. Micawber by suddenly stating, `` I will never leave Mr. Wright ''.

Miriam said that she must be assured that `` that other woman, Olga, will not be in luxury while I am scraping along ''.

For pride's sake, I will not say that the coy and leering vade mecum of those verses insinuated itself into my soul.

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.

Neither of them, I understood, had been present at the filming session earlier.

Any abilities I may have were achieved in their present shape from experience in sharing in the growth and control of my business, coupled with raising my family.

I am assured by experts that the thrust of our present missiles is fully adequate for defense requirements.

I still have the dress, and I hope to give it to the Smithsonian Institution as a memento, or, as I more fondly hope, to present it to a museum containing articles showing the daily lives of the Presidents -- if I can get it organized.

In any case I do not intend to let the present occasion pass without dealing more directly with the problem of implementing good intentions.

I suppose the day will inevitably come when the area will be encrusted with developments, but at present it is deserted and seductive.

I am really ill at the present moment, and I will go to some sort of a sanitarium to normalize myself ''.

`` I try to treat Daniel as if he were normal, though of course I realize he is far from that at present.

Next September, after receiving a degree from Yale's Master of Arts in Teaching Program, I will be teaching somewhere -- that much is guaranteed by the present shortage of mathematics teachers.

But, in spite of this, I, at present a man 31 years of age and a College Professor, have been recalled `` by direction of the President '' to report on November 25th to Fort Devens, Massachusetts, for another twelve months of Active Duty as an Sp 4 ( the equivalent of a PFC ).

I always felt the memory was present in both of them, stirring in their chests like a laugh or a growl, as eager as an animal to be out.

And, like many of you here present, I hold as the highlight of all, the occasion of my first meeting with the honorable Speaker of the House.

I again proposed a reduction in the Army National Guard and Army Reserve -- from their present strengths of 400,000 and 300,000, respectively, to 360,000 and 270,000 by the end of the fiscal year 1961.

Accordingly, if it is not repealed by the Congress at its present session, I shall have no alternative thereafter but to direct the Secretary of Defense to disregard the section unless a court of competent jurisdiction determines otherwise.

Beyond it I noted a small green column, about twelve feet below the present ground level -- the Serpentine Column, three entwined serpents, which once stood at the Temple of Apollo at Delphi, Greece.

I was ready, like Portia, to present my own brief.

Eventually it became clear to me, partly with the aid of another schizophrenic patient who could point out my condescension to me somewhat more directly, that this man, with his condescending, `` You're welcome '', was very accurately personifying an element of obnoxious condescension which had been present in my own demeanor, over these months, on each of these occasions when I had bid him good-bye with the consoling note, each time, that the healing Christ would be stooping to dispense this succor to the poor sufferer again on the morrow.

On the positivist theory, everything I sought to express by calling it evil in the first case is still present in the second.