I've always been fond of my children, and Lily is rather my pet.

She's always had everything she wanted, and she always shall.

She's a good girl and she deserves it.

I'll allow you----" The significant deliberation of his drawl could scarcely be described.

"I'll allow you just five minutes to get out of this room, before I kick you out, and if I kick you out of the room, I'll kick you down the stairs, and if I kick you down the stairs, I shall have got my blood comfortably warmed up and I'll kick you down the street and round the block and down to Hoboken, because you're going to take the steamer there and go back to the place you came from, to the Slosh thing or whatever you call it.