Halyna D. Malyk Speech Acts and Events

Ford, The Good Soldier (Ford,GS)⁴

1. 
   “I propose”, she said, “that you should resign from the Army and that we should go back to Branshaw”. (Ford, GS, 160)
   
2. 
   I call it the saddest story… (Ford, GS, 151).
   
3. 
   “Do accept the situation. I confess that I do not like your religion. But I like you so intensely. I don’t mind saying that I have never had anyone to be really fond of, and I do not believe that anyone has ever been fond of me, as I believe you really to be.”
   

“Oh, I am fond enough of you,” she said. “Fond enough to say that I wish every man was like you. But there are others to be considered… Oh, I accept the situation,” she said at last, if you can” (Ford, GS, 66)

4. 
   Constancy! Isn’t that the queer thought? And yet, I must add that dear Edward was a great reader – he would pass hours lost in novels of sentimental type (Ford, GS, 32)
   
5. 
   I find (Ford GS, 93)
   
6. 
   I assure you they were almost affectionate, concerned for me even, as if Florence were too bright for my solid serious virtues (Ford, GS, 78).
   
7. 
   And Leonore, I assure you, was the absolutely perfect British matron (Ford, GS, 221).
   
8. 
   I leave it to you (Ford, GS, 220).
   
9. 
   I forbid you to talk abot these things… (Ford, GS, 206).
   
10. 
    … I swear to you that they were the model couple (Ford, GS, 15).
    
11. 
    And yet I swear by the sacred name of my creator that it was true. (Ford, GS, 14).
    
12. 
    And yet I swear that Leonora, in her restrained way, gave the impression of being intensely sympathetic (Ford, Gs, 186).
    

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