I have about a hundred and seventy working hands on the Orangery, and shall be happy to place a hundred at your disposal for as long a time as you may require them.

If you want fifty more, you can of course have them.

Everything else must at present give way to the good of the cause." "I thank you much, Mrs.Wingfield, for your offers, and will put your name down the first on the list of contributors." "You seem quite to have recovered now," he said to Vincent a few minutes afterward.
"Yes; I am ashamed of staying here so long, general.

But I feel some pain at times; and as there is nothing doing at the front, and my doctor says that it is of importance I should have rest as long as possible, I have stayed on.

Major Ashley has promised to recall me as soon as there is a prospect of active work." "I think it is quite likely that there will be active work here as soon as anywhere else," the general said.