Of course I couldnt hold you to our engagement after that.
Bobby was a first offender and had the option; but the dear boy had no money left and wouldnt give you away by telling his name; and anyhow he couldnt have brought himself to buy himself off and leave me there; so hes doing his time.
But I cant give him up just to let him fall into the hands of people I couldnt trust, can I?
He couldnt whirl his leg like a windmill and knock a policeman down by a glorious kick on the helmet.
I'm really not fit company for you, dearie: I couldnt live up to you.
I told Vines they werent decent and we couldnt shew them in our shop.
I should tell the young lady that I found I couldnt fulfil my engagement.
They wanted him to go in for singlestick at the Young Men's Christian Association; but, of course, I couldnt allow that: he might have had his eye knocked out.
Oh, you couldntreally have thought it so fine as that.
Do you feel you couldnt marry a woman whos been in prison?
The more we ducked the more we couldnthelp it till we was goin down the road like a couple of Rushin dancers.
He pushed the papers around on his desk an said didnt that one thing an another Lootenant know he couldntget fire without orders from regimental headquarters.
The fello that invented these dugouts couldnt seem to decide wether to put in stairs or a ladder so he split the difference.
If Id telefoned ahed he couldnt have had things fixed up better for me.
The Captin said hed been plannin on lettin us sleep till seven o'clock Crismus but if we couldnt learn to make revelry wed have to keep on practisin gettin up at six.
I couldnt figger where I had any call to act as a Fritz recepshun comittee so I started to crawl away.
The fog was still so thick you couldnt see nothin an you couldnthear nothin of course on acount of the racket.
Naturally havin gotten all wet he couldnt see callin the battle off there.
Im a little worried about the other two cause the Captin said we couldnt menshun the names of no places.
I dont know where we are an I couldnt spell it anyhow so theres not much to rite about.
Half the fellos in the battery is comin thru in places the General couldntsee because he was mounted.
Not wantin to do ether I couldnt see where the armistice was goin to do me much good.
Well Fanny Ewell Hall was pack jam full of people & we couldnt see nothing because there was a cockide stiff standing right in front of us & jumping up & down & yelling No T.
Im thankful things aint no worse though Max Glucos what lives on the next cot says they couldnt be.
Bill Huggins swiped it later and says why didnt somebody tell him he was gettin so fat cause he couldnt go home on a furlo like that.
Not that you couldnt have em, Mable, but you dont an theres no use makin no bones about it.
Dere Mable: I would have rote sooner but I had such a cold I couldnt say nothin for most a weak.
The only trouble was, he said, that when the gas started the machine guns made so much noise you couldnt hear it an it always came at night sos you couldnt see it and when you smelled it it was most to late to bother anyhow.
I just menshun it cause I couldnt think of nothin else to say.
We saw a cabin that they said was a moonshiners hut but it was broad daylight so you couldnt tell of course.
He drank the whole thing right down sos nobody couldntget hold of it.
She couldnt stand her sister-in-law being a clean, sound woman, and she simply a whited sepulchre.
Of course I couldnt lend money to a stranger like that.
They would have; only they couldnt stand Emmy opening the door, I daresay.
You know very well he couldnt afford to marry until the mortgages were cleared and he was over fifty.
I couldnt get another word out of him; so I thought I'd better come here and warn you.
But when it came to the point I couldnt bear to hurt her feelings.
You couldnt think of a game that Mrs George isnt up to.
Not that it was the poor girl's fault, of course; only she started crying because I couldnt stand her touching me; and now she keeps writing to me.
Well, people who could do nothing couldnt have done that, you know.
Well of course I didnt look over at him but I couldnt help noticing he called a waiter and wrote a note on a piece of paper and that the waiter brought it over to me.
But they had a will of their own and it was on his side and I just couldnt seem to get free of them.
But I couldnt help seeing that he didn't blush at what Maisie said, although I knew he heard it, but a sort of crinkly expression come up round his nice blue eyes as if he thought us comic or something.
It was so dark, 'fore daylight, an' couldntsee and dey never did find out who shot 'im.
My mother worked until ten o'clock almost every night because her part was to 'spend so many cuts' a day, and she couldnt get through no sooner.
But the grate buxom, german frawleen, wot he had for nuss, couldnt see it a tall.
She had a hat on wot was as big as a punshun hed, wot she kept twistin round, so I couldnt see a thing wot was goin on on the staige.
Drums swollen like the bellies of starved children with toxic waste.
Closer now comes the yearly pilgrimage with candle-flame of lava to light up Mt.
My house is echoing with the footsteps of the visitor.
When you look up, that old full moon makes you feel like a cowpoke, dont it?
The maestros voice floated over harbour & city, capital & far-flung country, far from Covent Garden.
In a homely way, the headlights sweep the back yard hovering over the roped-swing in the pelting rain and neighbourhood of cat & dog.
He wakes to the taste of Saddam Husseins binary spittle, rips his garments in grief.
You headed for the high ground of Tabasco & the country of ruined churches.
Forget what he had to, or couldnt leave behind & anything to do with High Seriousness.
But then, life finished you off bit-by-bit though couldnt pluck out your dingo-bright eyes.
Who Killed Brett Whiteley Actually, it was Lloyd Rees killed off Brett Whiteley who couldnt live the promise of old age, the calm terror of it.
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