I can trust Miss Castlewood with you.

Good-by, good-by for the present." It was the first time he had ever called me by my proper name, and that made me all the more pleased with it.
"You see, Sir, why I were obliged to lock him in," cried the "good woman," following to the door, to clear every blur from her virtues; "for his own sake I done it, for I felt my cry a-coming, and to see me cry--Lord bless you, the effect upon him is to call out for a walking-stick and a pint of beer." "All right, ma'am, all right!" the Major answered, in a tone which appeared to me unfeeling.

"Cabman, are you asleep there?
Bring the lady's bag this moment." As the cab disappeared without my even knowing where to find that good protector again in this vast maze of millions, I could not help letting a little cold fear encroach on the warmth of my outburst.

I had heard so much in America of the dark, subtle places of London, and the wicked things that happen all along the Thames, discovered or invented by great writers of their own, that the neighborhood of the docks and the thought of rats (to which I could never grow accustomed) made me look with a flash perhaps of doubt at my new old friend.
"You are not sure of me, Miss Erema," said Mrs.Strouss, without taking offense.

"After all that has happened, who can blame it on you?
But your father was not so suspicious, miss.