Things go badly with us since you have gone.

The food is badly cooked, and the serving indifferent.

If you will write to tell me that you are willing to come back, and to be a loving and dutiful wife again, I will make me a holiday and come over to Basingstoke to fetch you and Alice home again.

I am writing to Jack and sending him five guineas, for which he will no doubt find a use in getting things suitable for the adventure upon which he is embarked, for the payment of her majesty to her soldiers does not permit of the purchase of many luxuries.

On second thoughts I have resolved to pay Andrew Carson his month's wages, and to let him go at once.