] It wasn't even like a country club, if you see what I mean-plain.

`` 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.

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.

But it can be dangerous if the joiner doesn't want to make a spectacle of himself.

Congress is full of politicians, and if you want to get along with them, you have to be politic.

Drill speeds are important if you want a good job.

Fly cutters can fool you into putting your hand too close to the tool, so if you want to avoid nicked fingers, keep your hands well out of the way.

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

Of course, if you want to throw all caution to the winds and rent an Imperial or Cadillac limousine just for you and your bride, you'll have a memorable tour, but it won't be cheap, and it is not recommended unless you own a producing oil well or you've had a winner in the Irish Sweepstakes.

you can't very well sidle up to people on the street and ask if they want to buy a hot Bodhisattva.

Or should we argue that if we want adjustment of children to children of different races and that that is impossible in an all-something-or-the-other school, we must at least provide him some opportunity to adjust to people of another race within the school -- namely, to a teacher of another race.

You may want to include your own regular vacation period if you have one.

Shayne said briskly, `` Grab another drink if you want it.

It'll be a tedious job, but if you want to try it, the old newspaper files are in the basement here in the county supervisor's office ''.

You can work on this one while I'm gone, kill it if you want ''.

`` We must persuade them to enjoy a way of life which, if not identical, is congenial with ours '', he said but adding that if they do not develop the kind of society they themselves want it will lack ritiuality and loyalty.

And he can be on the way to Memphis, your Gratt Shafer can, and you discover you can stay alive and hate him and love him and want him even if it means you want him -- really want him -- dead.

But then he had said, `` All right, kid, if that's how you want it, that's how it'll be ''.

The only thing, this lotion has glycerin in it, and that whitens the skin, so if you're so anxious to get a tan, you may not want to use it ''.

Oh, you can submit a requisition for a miracle if you want to make a fool of yourself.

Workshops do exist, but usually do not last long enough to fulfill educational requirements for most students, who must then attend additional private lessons if they want to gain proficiency.

Defendants usually enter an Alford guilty plea if they want to avoid a possible worse sentence were they to lose the case against them at trial.