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"Yes Ma'am," he said, "How can I help you?" He was trying to decide if this was about the signals or his marriage
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"Yes ma'am, but she would not identify herself
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"I'm doing all I can ma'am
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"Yes ma'am, that's the only thing the bandwidth allows," Ava said, with some more sleepy mumbling in the background
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"I'm sorry, ma'am", he said, "but I haven't been able to find out
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"I did see one strange thing though, ma'am", continued the aide
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“They are doing very well, thank you, ma'am,” responded Harry and glanced at the thermometer on the wall above the counter
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Harry reached for the widow's hand and clasped it with a gentle shake, “Pleased, ma'am” he said
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“You are correct, ma'am!” The face on the monitor said
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Harry turned to the Backhouse Lead and said simply, “What can I do for you now, ma'am?”
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Thank you very much indeed, ma'am
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“Yes Ma'am!” came their unanimous reply, and they dashed off on a different path than the Elf and Dena continued along with their vanguard of Nephlii
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"Pay the porter, please, ma'am," he said giving Toinette's ear a
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He said, “Yes ma'am
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"Can you sit up ma'am?" an intern asked as he came over to the scene
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"Why don't you continue on, ma'am?" said the officer, "and we will look after your friend, here
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"Oh, yes indeed, Ma'am
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"That's 'No, ma'am
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MacArthur had been more used to giving than receiving such orders, but his military experience gave him the strength to control a quick smile, a mock salute and utter "Yes ma'am
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“You have a mighty fine restaurant here, ma'am
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Nothing was said about that ma'am
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"Ma'am, if I tell you this, will you promise me that you never reveal it to anyone else?"
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"Excuse me, ma'am
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Jillian explained, and Dave put in, "Listen, Ma'am, I don't think it's all that safe down here in these early morning and late night hours
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Lyons said, "You do that, ma'am
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"I can believe that, ma'am
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"Yes ma'am," he answered
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"With all due respect Ma'am, I don't buy the story of the Galaef being a prisoner in that prison
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"Believe me, ma'am
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"Name's Brale, ma'am," he said as he lowered his hand
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"Thank you, ma'am," he said as he stood up
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"Excuse me ma'am," said Brale
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“Well ma'am," said Brale, "Our late Commander, the scum that he must have been, contacted Commander Mace every morning at exactly 8 a
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"Not at the moment, ma'am
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"Yes ma'am," said Brale
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"Excuse me ma'am, but what's going on?" He stood staring at the screen in front of him—the one that kept surveillance on the prison
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Brale said gravely, "Ma'am, they probably had orders to kill the Galaef at the first sign of trouble
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“We're almost there Ma'am
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"Yes ma'am?" The driver said
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"With all due respect ma'am, it was a little more than that
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"Would you stop with the ma'am already? Just call me Melanie
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“Sorry about the ruckus, Ma'am, but this man is a criminal
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have never been to Georgia before turn to the waitress and say, "Ma'am, what is that?
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server finishes serving her, he says, "have a great day, ma'am
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rest of the commercial murmuring about how she is not a "ma'am", she still feels like a
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and he turned to me and said, "Yes, ma'am" - OUCH again! Now, I know both of these
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passed into "ma'am" territory because I could answer "yes" to 3 out of the following 4
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"What'll it be, ma'am?" the clerk inquired in a polite voice
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fix her a glass of tea and I said yes ma'am
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May I speak to her ladyship, please, ma'am?" said Manby turning to her, as quietly respectful as if what she had seen happening a minute before were the behaviour natural to clerics and their relations
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“No need to worry,” said Johnny, “you're in good hands, isn't that true Caesar? So tell us your name ma'am and where are you are headed
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“Well there's certainly no shortage of business in these parts ma'am – although the rangers are mostly on the western routes, we've had our share of trouble
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The governor, the chief constable – they're all after you ma'am
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“Yes, ma'am!” he said triumphantly
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"Settled, ma'am? I told the woman here as well as the estate agent that you are my brother's child and that we are Neumann
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"Ma'am, why not?" said Fritzing, still more upset
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"Shall I send Annalise to you, ma'am?" asked Fritzing, standing in the doorway
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Ma'am, your woman's wit--"
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"Ma'am," he said looking worried, "I cannot watch you and administer food to these barbarians simultaneously
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Consequently, ma'am, you have no sisters
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"Yes, ma'am, it is
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"Do, ma'am? About your royal sisters? Would to heaven I had been born a rogue!"
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"Ma'am, let me beg you to be more prudent with that youth than with any one
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Be on your guard, ma'am
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"Your chastisement, ma'am, was very effectual
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"Ma'am, she overstepped the limits of my patience
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"Ma'am," he said, "you must forgive me for unwittingly bringing this bother upon you
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"Clothes, ma'am?" repeated Fritzing, straightening himself to stare at
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But you, ma'am, have been trained by me I trust in other and more reverent ways of handling what is left to us of the mighty spirits of the past
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"Nothing else, ma'am, nothing else
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"You have had the misfortune, ma'am, to choose a fool for your protector in this adventure," he said bitterly, pushing the papers from him as though he loathed the sight of them
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Ma'am, I would stake my soul that he is willing
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"Kill him, ma'am? Why should it kill him?" shouted Fritzing, exasperated by such a picture of softness
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"For God's sake, ma'am, do not approach these slight misadventures in so tragic a spirit
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"Ma'am, I have brought you to a sorry pass
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"I think it very likely, ma'am," said Fritzing with conviction
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"And you, ma'am? What have you not been to me?"
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"No, ma'am," he said with the decision of an unshakable conviction, "upon my immortal soul I do not see a shred
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"It is better, ma'am," he explained briefly, glancing at her over his spectacles, "than that you should give yourself over to gloom
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"But ma'am the difference is that it is also beautiful, whereas the gloom at present enveloping us is mere squalor
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'The voiceless children of the Pure--' how is that, ma'am, for beauty?"
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"Ma'am, is it possible that the blight of passing and outward circumstance has penetrated to and settled upon what should always be of a sublime inaccessibility, your soul?"
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'I believe the housemaid did mention it, ma'am
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Wemyss telephoned; and Chesterton, surprised, for it was not Wemyss's habit to telephone to The Willows, all his communications coming on postcards, paused just an instant before replying, 'If you please, ma'am
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She coughed a little first, conscious that to volunteer a remark wasn't quite within her idea of the perfect parlourmaid, and then she said, 'It's owing to local convenience, ma'am
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Wemyss's time at the other end, ma'am
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'There's plenty of room, ma'am
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There's a small chorus of "yes, ma'am," and the three of them troop up the stairs together
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"Oh, no, ma'am, that won't be necessary," Goll said, walking out of the house with bits of food and other things stuck in his beard
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are in the hospital; I don't have patience, Ma'am, I have Effi-
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"Oh, I-- I'm sorry, Ma'am; I am afraid that is not
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"Yes, Ma'am, that is all absolutely true," the sec-
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"Psst, Ma'am," the secretary coaxed in a loud whis-
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“Sorry ma'am it is a term of respect that the Captain orders I use when talking to his girls
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“I'm sorry ma'am but the Captain is needed urgently
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"Yes, ma'am," she said too solemnly
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"Yes, ma'am," he replied, trying to hide a smile as he pressed the accelerator and pulled out into traffic
