Such things were never done in my father's time, and I won't see them done now.

You said the other day you would get me a nomination to West Point as soon as I was sixteen.

I should be glad if you would do so.

By the time I have gone through the school, you will perhaps see that I have been right about Jonas." So saying, he turned and left the room and again joined his sisters in the drawing room.
"I have just told mother that I will go to West Point, girls," he said.
"Father said more than once that he thought it was the best education I could get in America." "But I thought you had made up your mind that you would rather stop at home, Vincent ?" "So I had, and so I would have done, but mother and I differ in opinion.

That fellow Jonas was going to flog Dan, and I stopped him this morning, and mother takes his part against me.