I shall run away then--or if I can't do that, I shall keep a knife in my pocket.

_Please_, father, don't let him come!" And the child nearly cried in her eagerness.
"Listen to me, Jill," said her father sternly.

"Unless you can behave yourself sensibly I shall be very angry indeed.

I expect you to be polite to Mr Ratman while he is here." "He'd better be polite to young ladies," said the irrepressible Jill.
"If he doesn't, I know somebody who will make him." "Be silent, miss, and bear in mind my wishes." That afternoon Captain Oliphant sent a polite message to his co-trustee requesting the favour of an interview.
Mr Armstrong found him in an unusually balmy frame of mind, anxious to go into the executorship accounts.
Everything was square and exact.

The rents and other receipts were all in order, and the amount duly paid into the bank.