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2. “Good-bye, Miss Lambert. So long, good luck and all that sort of thing and thanks for
the autografh”. (SMT, 232)
3. “I’ll ring up one of days”.
“Swear”.
“On my honour” (SMT, 100)
4. Best of luck. (SMT, 259)
5. “You won’t Forget me, Miss Lambert?”
“No dear, I promise you I won’t”. (SMT, 183)
6. I am not reproching you ! (SMT, 243)
7. “What would you advise me to do ?”
Nothing let him be. (SMT, 254)
8. I tell you (55 SMT)
9. I should like to introduce you to Miss Lambert. (SMT, 15)
10. You promised to ring me up. (SMT,111)
11. Well, good luck to you. (SMT, 57)
12. My advise to you is, get him a bit tight and then lock yourself in a roan with him and tell
him you won’t let him out till he’s made a dishonest women of you. (SMT, 57)
13. Have you done all this to get me to stay on for another year? Have you broken my
heart and ruined my whole life just to keep me in your rotten theatre?
I swear I haven’t. I like you and I admire you … I swear it’s the truth (SMT , 56)
14. “I don’t understand,” said Julia haughtily.
“I bet you don’t either”. (SMT, 55)
15. I insist on your being educated like a gentleman. (SMJ, 36)
16. Damn you. (SMT, 28)
17. Oh, I know people always lie about their debts, she said with a laugh. I am sure you
owe more than you said.
I promise you I don’t. You are the last person I’d lie to. (SMT,121)
18. “Will you swear that ? Of course I will”. (SMT, 148)
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W. S. Maugham. Painted Veil (MPV)
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1. “No mistake is possible. I give you my word of honour”. Maugham, PV, 153
2. “But the fact is that I’ve just been offered the post of chief justise of the Bahamas and I
have accepted it”.
“Oh, father, I’am so glad. I congratulate you with all my heart” Maugham, PV, 234
3. I say. PV, 13, 14
4. “I know you English like tea”, said the Mother Superior, and I have ordered some. But I
must make my exuses it if is served in the Chinese fashion. Maugham, PV, 114
5. “Don’t worry your silly little head a moment longer”, he said “I promise you there is
nothing to fear. I’m as certain as I am of anything that he’s going to pretend he knows
nothing. You know, this sort of thing is awfully difficult to prove. You say he’s in love
with you; perhaps he doesn’t wan’t to lose you altogether. I swear I’d accept anything
rather than that if you were wife”. Maugham, PV, 57

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W. S. Maugham. Painted Veil