`` We'll pay you back if you'll let us.

I'll be down at the creek finishing the dishes, if you want me ''.

Besides, 'tain't no more'n right for me to follow with my black oxen, so's I can unhook and pull up fast if either of you get in a pinch ''.

Don't you worry, chief '', Greg replied, wondering if he himself believed it.

Plus flawless skin, smooth brow and cheeks, lips that looked as if you could get a shock from them.

Their product had been endorsed by Good Housekeeping, the A.M.A., and the Veterinary Journal, among other repositories of higher wisdom, and before much longer if you didn't have a cake of their soap in the john, even your best friends would think you didn't bathe.

`` You might as well wait here while I'm gone, so you can use my shower if you'd like ''.

So if all these beers was to get me in bed, man, you just spent a lot of money ''.

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

But a young American has a bath next to his room and I shall ask him if you might use it this once.

`` Or do you want to see if I can stand fever, too ''??

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

but if it had been, it had been smothered until now by fear ): you could tell it by the way she watched the older, bigger boys, like Jack.

And if you get sick, ask the teacher to let you come home early.

`` All right, if you can't do your arithmetic during school hours you can do it after school is out '', Miss Langford said firmly, not smiling.

But if you don't know the place like the palm of your hand, you'd better use a compass and the speedometer.

It was, of course, a little boy's fantasy of winning his mother to himself, and replacing the father who could not give her the things she wanted -- a classical oedipal fantasy if you like -- but if it were only this the story would be banal.

Even if people do, in a not far distant future, begin to read one another's minds, there will still be the question of whether what you find in another man's mind is especially worth reading -- worth more, that is, than what you can read in good books.

But what you could not know, of course, was how smoothly the Victorian Fitzgerald was to lead into an American Fitzgerald of my own vintage under whose banner we adolescents were to come, if not of age, then into a bright, taut semblance of it.

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.

I do not know if such a way of life can come to be a self-conscious challenge, but I suspect that it can.

He wanted to know if my father had beaten me or my mother had run away from home to give me an unhappy childhood.

All such imitations of negative quality have given rise to a compensatory response in the form of a heroic and highly individualistic humanism: if man can neither know nor love reality as it is, he can at least invent an artistic `` reality '' which is its own world and which can speak to man of purely personal and subjective qualities capable of being known and worthy of being loved.

He's got a lot of friends, and he ought to come along and let us know if he wants our help ''.

Another Indiana observer later commented, `` Perhaps we shall never know how much was spent ( by Hearst ), but if as much money was expended elsewhere as in Indiana a liberal fortune was squandered ''.

But if you are able & care to come, you know how glad I shall be.

Just as I know I would make a bad soldier even though I cannot sincerely call myself a pacifist, so too I would not be either a hangman by profession or, if I could avoid it, even a member of a hanging jury.

I don't know if this is the situation in other parts of the country ; ;

You can do anything with these dumb fucks if you know how.

`` I'd simply like to know if it is as good as you kind people seem to think '', he said.

I went off with Cousin Simmons, who maintained that if he didn't see to me, he didn't know who would.

You know the law: if you lose the debate after accepting a challenge, you will be banished ''!!

Perhaps if they know the story there will be a massive cry of indignation ''.

I don't know if I can get you into the inner camp.

I don't know what we would have done if Pat O'Dwyer hadn't come to town.

If he wanted to know anything, he would end up asking about it point-blank, but in this guileless manner he would probably receive more truthful answers than if he tried to get them by indirection.

I have never seen Caper off his feet -- he seems to know nothing but ' trot ' and keeps trying a little harder if asked to do so.

Never let anyone not in the know take a turn at the valves -- even if the little boys do want to play space ship.

One might also wonder if monkeys are capable of developing bronchiolitis as we know it in man or the horse.

For if the small group notion involves the implicit claim that the phenomena of sociological investigations are of atomic or subatomic proportions, the philosopher needs to know the extent to which such entities are valid.

I was curious to know if Lumumba's death, which is surely among the most sinister of recent events, would elicit from `` our '' side anything more than the usual, well-meaning rhetoric.