W. S. Maugham. Cakes and Ale (mca)9

1. “I don’t understand”, she said. “But then I’m bound to admit that I never understood what Edward saw in her ”. Cakes,183

2. She’s disagreeable old cat, but I give you my word I’d miss it if the Lord took her one fine day. Cakes,121

3. I forsee? Cakes,129

4. My word, people are funny, she said. “When I think of all the gentlemen I’ve had here, I give you my word you wouldn’t believe it if I told you some of the things I know about them”. Cakes,124

5. You can write it quite roughly, I mean. Cakes,118

6. My word, he’d talk by the hour and he never cared who he talked to. Cakes,172

7. “Don’t you agree that would be the best thing for him, all good?”

“Absolutely” Cakes,163

8. I don’t deny. Cakes,115

9. “ I call it very pushing?” Cakes,72

I dare say – 45,73,85,93,94,100,155,184,192,198

I think 34,44,46,47,55,58,64,69,71,98,109,113,114,122,127, 133, 139, 158,

163, 183, 184, 189

I suppose – 35, 46, 49, 30, 76, 77, 94, 99, 101, 153, 162, 164, 166, 188

I hope – 42, 58, 165

I believe – 56, 66, 117, 178, 184, 193

I expect 166, 188

10. “You couldn’t have anything to do with him”, I protested. “I mean, he’s such an awful cad”. Cakes,151

11. “I’ll pay for it,” I protested. Cakes,172

12. “he’s so frightfully vulgar,” I complained. Cakes,151

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W.S. Maugham . Rain and Other Stories (mros)10

1. Don’t send me back there. I swear to you before God I’ll be a good woman. I’ll give all this up. MROS , 70

2. I quite agree with you. MROS , 104

3. “I wanted to read all about the Wolverhampton murder, and I borrowed your Times. I brought them back again. I knew you wouldn’t mind.”

“But I do mind. I mind very much.” MROS , 106

4. “Well, if it doesn’t last you’ll have the consolation of saying “I told you so” ”, I said.

“I promise you I’ll never do that.” MROS , 333

5. You know that I only ask to be allowed to love and serve you. MROS , 211

6. Oh, don’t laugh at me now. I beseech you to be serious. MROS Rain, 173

7. I assure you, I can be just as solemn in a pareo and a wreath of roses, as in a high hat and a cut away coat. MROS Rain, 207

8. Say, I’m sorry for what I said to you the other day, and for-for every then else. I guess I was a bit lit up. I beg pardon. MROS Rain, 70

9. I resign in your favour, Bateman. You are the better man. MROS Rain, 206

10. I must ask you to excuse me. I have an engagement. Please give my respects to Mrs. Macphail. MROS Rain, 68

11. - Has Marion told you my news ?

- I must congratulate you. MROS Rain, 323

12. May I ask why you’re going to marry this young man ? MROS Rain, 328

I guess – 45, 53, 64, 67, 75, 168, 173, 184, 185, 193, 197, 246, 249.

I think – 45, 46, 51, 65, 66, 111, 118, 125, 170, 329, 330, 335.

I hope – 51, 324.

I suppose – 60, 110, 135, 169, 170, 185, 189, 211, 326, 334.

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A Fearless Champion11

(Sh FC)

1. May I say how deeply I feel the kindness with which I have been overwhelmed since my accident? I can truthfully declare that I am glad it happened. (Sh FC)

2. I respectfully suggest that a thorough investigation into the truth of this miracle be proposed to a comittee of Protestant gentlemen. (Sh FC)

3. I expect to find Miss Reilly a perfect lady; and I strongly advise you to come and have another look at her before you make up your mind about her. (Sh FC)

4. I shall bid you farewell in any case, because I have already spoken quite enough…(Sh FC)

5. Bedad. I’m sorry for years poor brother, Mister Keegan; but I recommend you to him with a couple of fried eggs for your breakfast tomorrow.., (Sh FC) 131

6. I swear never to mention his name again. I beg your pardon for what I said., (Sh FC)

198

7. I insist : it will give me the greatest pleasure, I assure you. (Sh FC) 125

8. I don’t propose that you should emit or slur anything, but only that you should do it with the utmost economy of time (Sh FC) 322

9. Goodbye all of you. (Sh FC), 314

10. And so goodbye until next time and good luck to you! (Sh FC) , 306

11. I accept your apology; …………….. (Sh FC) 237

12. I admit to you that Mr Cambell has made believe in Christ. I assure you that – it is, of course, my personal indionyncrasy – the effect of Dean Farrar’s life of Christ on me was to make it quite impossible for me to believe in Christ at all… (Sh FC) 237

13. Unmitigated rot, Larry, I assure you. (Sh FC) 83

14. Of course there are some questions which touch the very foundation of morals, and on these I grant you even the closest relationship cannot exuse any compromise or laxity.

(Sh FC) 83

15. Now, some artists will say to me, with disgust:”Why, you are declaring that art should be didactic!” I do declare that; I say that all art the fountainhead is didactic. (Sh FC) 233

16. I now come to the question (?) (Sh FC) 222

17. I assure you I can sleep at night for thinking of you, Mr Legge. (Sh FC) 195

18. Why will you persist in treating me like a child, uncle? I am very impressinable, I grant you. (Sh FC) 188

19. I sympatize. (?)(Sh FC) , 159

20. Yes, I assure you. You are an extremely interesting man. (Sh FC) 140

21. - I expect you were a Jory in a former existance; and that is why you are here.

• Never, Larry, never. But leaving politics out of the question, I find the world quote good enough for me: rather a jolly place, in fact. (Sh FC) 139

22. You say the Irish sense of humor is in abeyance. Well, if you drive through Rosscullen in a motor car with Haffigan’s pig, it won’t stay in abeyance. Now I warn you. (Sh FC) 129

23. I never had a thought agen you or the Holy Church. I know I’m bit hasty when I think about the lan.

24. I ax your pardon for it… (Sh FC) , 114

• Well you were evidently in a state of blithering sentimentality, anyhow.

• That is true, Larry: I admit it. (Sh FC) 111

26. I assure you I like the open air. (Sh FC) , 106

27. I must be drunk – frightfully drunk: for your voice drove me out of my senses - (he stumbles over a stone). No, on my word, on my sacred word of honour, Miss Reilly, I tripped over that stone . (Sh FC) 104

28. Tell me that I’m interfering with Larry; and I’ll go straight from this spot back to London and never see you again. That’s on my honour: I will. (Sh FC) 102

29. Nora : Is it making love to me are you ?

Broadbent. On my word I believe I am, Miss Reilly. If you say that to me again I shan’t answer for myself: all the harps of Ireland are in your voice. Stop laughing: do you hear? I am in earnest – in English earnest. When I say a thing like that to a woman, I mean it. I beg your pardon. (Sh FC) 102

30. Keegan: What were you doing there, Patsy, listning? Were you spying on me ?

Patsy. No, Fadher: on me oath and soul I wasn’t. (Sh FC) , 89

• I assure you I never meant –

• Oh, don’t apologize: its quite true. I daresay I’ve learnt something in America and a few other remote and inferious spots; but in the main it is by living with you and working in double harness with you that I have learnt to live in a real world and not in an imaginery one. I owe more to you than to any Irishman. (Sh FC) 81

32. I grant that Sarah’s elaborate Monna Lisa smile ….(Sh FC) , 253

33. Hattery

• May I put it in this way that I saw at once were a thorough Irishman, with all the faults and all the qualities of your race: rash and improvident but brave and goodnatured; not likely to succeed in business account your own account perhaps, but eloquent, humorous, a loker of freedom and a true follower of that great Englishman Glandstone.

• Spare me blushes. I mustn’t sit here to me be praised to me face. But I confess to the good nature: It’s an Irish wakeness. I’ll share me last shiling with a friend.

(Sh FC) , 72

34. I mean what I say. (Sh FC) , 161

35. May I ask you to sit down. First, Miss Reilly, may I say that I take tasted nothing of an alcoholic nature today. (Sh FC) , 146

36. And now may I ask you – for I value no man’s opinion more – what you think of my chances. (Sh FC) , 136

37. I must apologize for making that speech, Miss Doyle: but they likeit, you know. (Sh FC) 136

38. Cardinal: may I ask whether traces of insanity have ever appeared in our family? (Sh FC) , 192

39. All I possess: I swear it. (Sh FC) , 196

40. Thomas Broadbent: I surrender!? (Sh FC) , 83

41. May I ask whether you are mad, that you disturb people at this hour with such an unearthly voice? (Sh FC) , 187

42. I always reply that the theatre does not develop….(Sh FC) , 239

I think – 68,72,94,103,110,118,123,136,140

I suppose – 68,87,88,93,107,123,141,142,149,155,210,333

I wish – 193

say – 81,95,101,108!117,146,150!209

thank – 87,98,106,112,121,142,209,211

I believe – 188

I hope – 88,97,101,105,134,136,192,206 Shaw, A Fearless champion

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D.Cusack Say No to Death (CSNTD)¹²

1. ”You’ll come and tell me everything when it’s all over. Promise me.”

2. ”I promise. Where else would I go?” CSNTD 380

3. I warn you, I shall do everything to keep your wife here. (CSNTD) 363

4. “Would that be worse than what is ahead of her, wherever she is?” Dr. Haig made an exasperated sound. “I refuse to argue with you.” (CSNTD) 362

5. Congratulations, Templeton, I believe your wife shares in ward 3’s win. I wish some of the luck would find it’s way over to the staff quarters. CSNTD 359

6. I give ye me solemn word I’ll perjure myself if anyone asks me what’s in the cup! CSNTD 342

7. “My word, them’orses over there at that there stud it’oused toffs…

8. ”I bet they’s got carpets in ’em, jabez…”

9. ”I tell you them ’orses is better off than lots of human bein’s.”

CSNTD , 333

10. “Mind you, I’m not promising you a miracle. You realise that, I hope?”

“I realise it.”

CSNTD , 319

11. I suggest you put on the tie you wore when you come here instead of that one. CSNTD , 303

12. I warn you, a few more speeches like that and you’ll go home to you Jan. CSNTD, 243

13. Now for Miss Blakeley, all I can offer to do is this… CSNTD, 229

14. “It’s the most terrible thing I’ve every heard in my life”.

“I agree”. CSNTD , 227

15. I presume . CSNTD , 212

16. Naturally I realise that this pleurisy will put her back a bit but I suppose it won’t prevent her out by the end of October. CSNTD , 212

17. Mean, refuse, CSNTD , 195

18. “The sky’s overcast, and I bet it’s raining cat’s and dogs on the mountains.” CSNTD , 189

19. “Welcome, Primavera”

“I’ve forgotten who she was, but I’m sure you mean it for a compliment”.

“I do”. CSNTD , 181

20. It’s magic enough for me to see you on your feet again, but I admit this is something quite out of the box. CSNTD , 178

21. Did I ever tell you, Miss Blakeley, that I love you? CSNTD , 173

22. I was a bit of a beast early in the peace, I admit. CSNTD , 147

23. And let me tell you, you are not getting out of this by folling me off with “Thank-you-Bart”. I want practical thanks. So you just set about getting yourself well just as soon as you can – see?”

“I see.”

“Just remember I’m talking the long view about this, and I intend to get my puond of flesh eventually.” CSNTD , 108

24. I must thank you, Bart, for everuthing. It’s owfully good of to do all you’ve done for me. CSNTD , 107

25. “Good-bye, girls,” she called, “and good luck”. ”The same to you,” Betty’s voice lisped after her. ”Good luck!” Linda flung the words over her shoulder. CSNTD , 105

26. “Who – do you mean me?” Jan stumbled over her words.”

“Of course I mean you.” CSNTD , 102

27. Well, my advice is, next time there is a war, stay at home and get the inside running on the mugs who go to fight. CSNTD , 73

28. “It doesn’t do anything to me; I reckon that people who have kids the way things are today are mad.” CSNTD , 45

29. “So there you are,” she said at last. “All set for the same old game as before, only this time I warn you I’m not going to play ball. I wan’t be turned out of my own flat or at least my share of our flat.” CSNTD , 28

I suppose – 27, 30, 45, 80, 102, 124, 149, 158, 164, 174, 218, 240, 251, 256, 271, 355, 362.

I believe – 173, 176.

I think – 48, 75, 82, 86, 118, 150, 173, 176, 201, 202, 251, 254, 317, 363.

I hope – 124, 143, 273.

thank – 23, 39, 103, 189, 210, 294, 355

Wish, want – 31, 66, 183, 305, 313

Say, tell – 48, 222, 238, 357