Sailing orders have been issued, and I could only have resisted them in my own person by casting myself overboard.
I go like the boat behind the vessel.

You were expected yesterday, at latest this morning.

I have seen boxes in the hall, with a name on them not foreign to me.

Why does the master tarry?
Sir, of your valliance you should have held to your good vow,--quoth the damozel, for now you see me sore perplexed and that you did not your devoir is my affliction.
Where lingers chivalry, she should have proceeded, if not with my knight?
I feast on your regrets.

I would not have you less than miserable: and I fear the reason is, that I am not so very, very sure you will be so at all or very hugely, as I would command it of you for just time enough to see that change over your eyebrows I know so well.
'If you had seen a certain Henrietta yesterday you would have the picture of how you ought to look.