But can you stop?
I understood you to say that you were going to see a couple of patients." "Only old Mrs Ransom at the Hall, and Farmer Dikeby's wife.

The old woman's got nothing the matter but ninety-one, and as for Mistress Dikeby, she has had too much physic as it is, and if I go she won't be happy till I give her some more, which she will be far better without.
No: I am going to stay and see this through." "I shall be very glad." "And so shall I, Duncan.

I said you were an idiot to buy that Gap, and I told you so; but no one will be better pleased than I shall if it turns out well." He held out his hand and my father took it without a word.
"Now, then," said the doctor, "let's see the stuff." My father opened the corner cupboard and took out the pieces of rock, and Doctor Chowne put on his glasses and examined them carefully, frowning severely all the time and without a word.
"Do you think it _is_ tin ?" said my father at last.
"No, sir, I don't," said Doctor Chowne, throwing down one of the pieces in an ill-humoured way.

"I'll take my oath it isn't." "Oh!" ejaculated my father in a disappointed tone; "but are you sure ?" "Sure, sir?
Yes.

I'm not clever, and I'm better at gunshot wounds and amputations than at medical practice, but I do know a bit about metals and mining.