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

I won't '' --

`` OK., I won't play hard '', he promised.

I won't bite, you know ''.

While the picture was taken, Mr. Miller's disposition to be generous to Mr. Sandburg increased to the point where he advised, ' I won't even charge you the one dollar rental fee ' ''.

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.

`` I think I've fixed the pump so we won't have to worry about it for a long time '', he said.

`` I am terribly sorry to keep you waiting '', she said, `` but won't you make yourself a little drink while you wait??

When they came to Mr. Jack's photograph, twenty by twelve inches in a curly silver frame, Miss Ada said, `` By rights I ought to leave that, seeing he won't take my clotheshorse ''.

`` We won't live long enough if I wait for you, besides which you don't need to worry -- there'll be plenty more ''.

Yes, well, it's a pity to spoil your girlish figure -- which all those kittens would do anyway -- but I think when you've raised these we'll just have the vet fix it so there won't be any more.

I won't try the experiment, but I think you can see that if we all knew the secret and we could all let ourselves go, there would be quite an explosion.

I won't be long ''.

I won't be in town for a couple of days, though, and there's that case I was supposed to handle this afternoon.

`` Because maybe I won't have to wear it always.

`` I won't do it '', I said flatly.

`` And '', I was ticking off the items on my fingers, `` swears too much and goes out with the boys, whoever they are, too much, and who ever goes to church and won't even listen when I try to persuade him to come back to the fold ''.

I tell you when it's necessary to hurt in order to win -- you won't do it.

I wished to prepare myself but did not even know what sort of clothes I ought to be wearing.

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 even remember who wrote it but it was one of those 15th or 16th century poets.

`` But knowing you, I know that you're glad to be alive, and grateful -- and sorry because I killed the snake, even though I had to.

Dr. Lalaurie and I didn't even know he was in the house until the night of our ball when he came down the stairs ''.

They saw it before I did, even with my binoculars.

When I mentioned that for my first long voyage I did not even have the money for the return fare, but had trusted to luck that I would earn a sufficient amount, the young people looked at me doubtingly.

Others mentioned that I might have had to ask friends or even strangers for help and that to be stranded in a foreign country without sufficient funds did not contribute to international understanding.

I granted this might be so, but found the result to be even more attention to form than was the case previously.

Also, I am convinced that if my company were a sole proprietorship instead of a partnership, I would have been even abler to solve long-range problems for myself and my fellow-employees.

I do not suppose you ever heard of F. Scott Fitzgerald, living or dead, and moreover I do not suppose that, even if you had, his legend would have seemed to you to warrant more than a cluck of disapproval.

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.

Whether you experienced the passion of desire I have, of course, no way of knowing, nor indeed have I wished with even the most fleeting fragment of a wish to know, for the fact that one constitutes by one's mere existence so to speak the proof of some sort of passion makes any speculation upon this part of one's parents' experience more immodest, more scandalizing, more deeply unwelcome than an obscenity from a stranger.

You probably would not remember, since you never seemed to remember even the same moments as I, much less their intensity, one sunny midday on Fifth Avenue when you had set out with me for some final shopping less than a week before the wedding you staged for me with such reluctance at the Farm.

She's been hangin' around me a lot here lately, and I figgered I might as well's try it.

`` I might try it one of these days '', Jack said wonderingly, thinking of Miss Langford.

I would try to memorize landmarks and saw in a half-hour that it was hopeless.

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.

But before I try to diagnose it, I would offer other evidence.

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

What I do is to try to bring him into contact with reality as much as possible.

I try to give him as many normal experiences as possible.

If a human figure or wild life are to be part of the projected final picture, I try to place them in the initial sketch.

I really loved that boy, and, in a feverish attempt to preserve our marriage and to try to revive the wonderful, wonderful person Letch had once been, I took my troubles to Momma, hoping that her earthy advice would help me.

`` I'll try '', I said, and sat for a moment thinking.

Ever since I was a child, I have always had a yen to try my hand at writing.

I wish you luck when you try scaring that kid ''.

I don't know if I can manage it tonight or tomorrow, but I'll try my best, my friend.

`` I try '', Felix said blithely.

I knew the only way I could beat you was to play possum, but it was a good try, kid, and I appreciate it.