I wish I could get up on my feet.

Run up-stairs, Patty, and find your Uncle Ted, and ask him what is to be done about it ?" Although unacquainted with the house, Patty ran up-stairs, and through various rooms, but without finding her uncle.
Anxious to do her aunt's bidding, she ran on up to the third story, and in a large attic room she found her uncle standing before a large old-fashioned bookcase, eagerly reading a volume which he held in his hands.
"What about the water, Uncle Ted ?" said Patty.
"Yes,--in a minute,--I'm going to attend to it.

I'm so surprised to find all these books here.

We rented this cottage furnished, you know, and I haven't been up here before.

I'd no idea these books were here.