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Ann's Conscience, which up till this morning had been standing<br />

STYLE<br />

aside and holding a sort of watching brief, now intruded itself upon<br />

the scene.<br />

'I don't want you <strong>to</strong> think I am always shoving myself forward,'<br />

said Conscience frigidly, 'but I should be failing in my duty if I did not<br />

point out that you are standing at a Girl's Cross Roads. Everything<br />

depends on what reply you make <strong>to</strong> the very leading question which<br />

has just been put <strong>to</strong> you .... whatever you do, let me urge upon you<br />

with all the emphasis of which I am capable not <strong>to</strong> drop your eyes<br />

and say "Yes." '<br />

'Yes,' said Ann, dropping her eyes. 'Of course I did.'<br />

-P.G. WooEHousE, Big Money<br />

Our chairs were adjoining, and when Mario had finished with me<br />

and was ready <strong>to</strong> take off and shake out that cloth throwover, I never,<br />

never failed <strong>to</strong> have more of Seymour's hair on me than my own. Only<br />

once did I put in a complaint about it, and that was a colossal mistake.<br />

I said something, in a distinctly ratty <strong>to</strong>ne of voice, about his "damn<br />

hair" always jumping all over me. <strong>The</strong> instant I said it I was sorry, but<br />

it was out. He didn't say anything, but he immediately started <strong>to</strong> worry<br />

about it. It grew worse as we walked home, crossing streets in silence;<br />

he was obviously trying <strong>to</strong> divine a way of forbidding his hair <strong>to</strong> jump<br />

on his brother in the barbershop. <strong>The</strong> homestretch on 11 Oth, the long<br />

block from Broadway <strong>to</strong> our building, on the corner of Riverside, was<br />

the worst. No one in the family could worry his or her way down that<br />

block the way Seymour could if he had Decent Material.<br />

-J.D. SALINGER, Seymour: An Introduction<br />

In dialogue, whole words or sentences may sometimes be capitalized<br />

in order <strong>to</strong> indicate shouting or vehemence.<br />

Alice laid her hand upon his arm, and said, in a soothing <strong>to</strong>ne, 'You<br />

needn't be so angry about an old rattle.'<br />

'But it isn't old!' Tweedledum cried, in a greater fury than ever. 'It's<br />

new, I tell you-1 bought it yesterday-my nice NEW RADLE!' and his<br />

voice rose <strong>to</strong> a perfect scream.<br />

-LEWIS CARROLL, Through the Looking-Glass<br />

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