If you don't bring him here in five minutes I'll clump you on the side of the head when you get back.

Shoo! Scat!" He charged at the youth, who bolted from the room and clattered madly down-stairs.
"He'll fetch him," said Charles.

"Let us make ourselves at home.
This sofa does not feel over and above safe.

It was not meant for fifteen-stone men.

But this doesn't look quite the sort of place where one would expect to pick up money." "Just what I was thinking," said the Admiral, looking ruefully about him.
"Ah, well! I have heard that the best furnished offices generally belong to the poorest firms.