ME in Classic Quotes

1  The younger of the two was a stranger to me.

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2  He turned me around again, politely and abruptly.

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3  He had casually conferred on me the freedom of the neighborhood.

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4  Almost any exhibition of complete self sufficiency draws a stunned tribute from me.

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5  I looked back at my cousin who began to ask me questions in her low, thrilling voice.

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6  It was lonely for a day or so until one morning some man, more recently arrived than I, stopped me on the road.

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7  In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.

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8  I told her how I had stopped off in Chicago for a day on my way east and how a dozen people had sent their love through me.

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9  Father agreed to finance me for a year and after various delays I came east, permanently, I thought, in the spring of twenty-two.

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10  Evidently it surprised her as much as it did me, for she yawned and with a series of rapid, deft movements stood up into the room.

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11  "Oh, I'll stay in the East, don't you worry," he said, glancing at Daisy and then back at me, as if he were alert for something more.

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12  All my aunts and uncles talked it over as if they were choosing a prep-school for me and finally said, "Why--ye-es" with very grave, hesitant faces.

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13  In consequence I'm inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores.

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14  If she saw me out of the corner of her eyes she gave no hint of it--indeed, I was almost surprised into murmuring an apology for having disturbed her by coming in.

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15  We were in the same Senior Society, and while we were never intimate I always had the impression that he approved of me and wanted me to like him with some harsh, defiant wistfulness of his own.

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16  Turning me around by one arm he moved a broad flat hand along the front vista, including in its sweep a sunken Italian garden, a half acre of deep pungent roses and a snub-nosed motor boat that bumped the tide off shore.

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17  At any rate Miss Baker's lips fluttered, she nodded at me almost imperceptibly and then quickly tipped her head back again--the object she was balancing had obviously tottered a little and given her something of a fright.

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