I remember being told it would happen so fast people would think it took place overnight.

As I dug in behind one of the bales we were using as protection, I grudgingly found myself agreeing with Oso's logic, especially when I imagined what would have happened to Missy if Old Knife's large party of screeching warriors had overrun our company.

`` That quirt -- I ought to use it on you, where it would do the most good.

I would turn away from my writing in the hope of getting a good look at them but I never quite succeeded.

He pointed out the switch to me and for a moment I foolishly believed that he would let deed follow words.

Later I would remember what this pompous little man had told me about the worth of a ticket.

By counting the number of stalls and urinals I attempted to form a loose estimate of how many men the hall would hold at one time.

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.

As I had expected, he insisted that my visits to the hall would do nothing to further the process of my application.

What sort of men I would come into contact with, at the hall??

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

Donald Kruger would like nothing better than to hold him as hostage, and I wouldn't entrust a snake to his tender care.

`` What else would I mean, anyways ''??

`` A body would swear I floated right up here on a cloud ''!!

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 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 let up on the accelerator, only to gradually reach again the 60 m.p.h. which would, I hoped, overhaul Herry and the blonde, and as there were cars whose drivers apparently had something more important to catch than had I, Mrs. Major Roebuck settled down to practicing on Corporal Johnson the kittenish wiles she would need when making her duty call on Colonel and Mrs. Somebody in Sante Fe.

I am fain .< BR > Tears are become to you a habit, O my eyes, So that ye weep as

On alcohol, Thoreau wrote: " I would fain keep sober always ...

For example, instead of saying " Now I would gladly hear your advice on this matter ", the duchess of Amalfi says: " Now I would fain hear from thee that which thou counsellest thereanent.

" The young American anticipated Liotard's surprise " that so remote a corner of the Globe as New England should have any demand for the necessary eutensils for practiceing the fine Arts " by assuring him that " America which has been the seat of war and desolation, I would fain hope will one Day become the School of fine Arts.

He wrote: " I am of this opinion that our own tung should be written cleane and pure, unmixt and unmangeled with borowing of other tunges ; wherein if we take not heed by tiim, ever borowing and never paying, she shall be fain to keep her house as bankrupt ".

Ah, Time's swift flight I fain would stay, Forgetting that my locks are gray.

" I would fain " means " I would gladly ".

Cheke wrote: I am of this opinion that our own tung should be written cleane and pure, unmixt and unmangeled with borowing of other tunges ; wherein if we take not heed by tiim, ever borowing and never paying, she shall be fain to keep her house as bankrupt.

: I am of this opinion that our own tung should be written cleane and pure, unmixt and unmangeled with borrowing of other tunges ; wherein if we take not heed by tiim, ever borowing and never paying, she shall be fain to keep her house as bankrupt.

: Yet dearly I love you, and would be lov ’ d fain,

* " My lovely one I fain would love thee much, but all my Love is none at all I see.

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

Having nothing else to do except wait for my forms to be processed, I gave myself over to speculations concerning the hall itself.

When I asked him what, if anything, I could do about it, he surprised me by referring me to the director of the hall.

As he lowered himself on the chair behind his desk I wondered what this dapper, slightly ridiculous man could possibly have to do with the workings of the hall.

He said in a studied voice, `` I didn't do it for you.

Don't like to bother no one unless we have to, which I figger we do, in your case.

You think that Highlands swindled you and I helped 'em do it.

I just do what I'm told, and '' --

`` You and I have a little talking to do, Jess.

`` So help me, Crouch, I'd like to kill you where you stand, but, before I do, I'm going to hear you admit killing him.

I don't mean to pry, but do they hide the swimsuit with the bubbles??

`` I really do have something important to tell you, Mr. Scott.

I could show what I can do ''.

As far as I was concerned, she had already and had dandily shown what she could do.

`` Only when I do it ''.

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 ; ;

Why she married him I do not know.

`` I know what we can do '', I said.

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