Of course, when I am gone, in a month or so,--perhaps a week or two,--he can do as he pleases." "Don't, John!" "But it is so.

While I live I am master at least of this house.

I cannot see Mr.Jones, and I do not wish to have another quarrel with Augustus.
Mr.Merton says that every time I get angry it gives Sir William another chance with the knife.

I thought that perhaps you could do it." Then Miss Scarborough promised that she would do it, and, having her brother's health very much at heart, she did do it.

Augustus stood smiling while the message was, in fact, conveyed to him, but he made no answer.