It's a good machine; but they all want going over occasionally." Ethelbertha said: "If you want to wash yourselves when you have done you might go into the back kitchen, if you don't mind; the girls have just finished the bedrooms." She told me that if she met Kate they would probably go for a sail; but that in any case she would be back to lunch.

I would have given a sovereign to be going with her.

I was getting heartily sick of standing about watching this fool breaking up my bicycle.
Common sense continued to whisper to me: "Stop him, before he does any more mischief.

You have a right to protect your own property from the ravages of a lunatic.

Take him by the scruff of the neck, and kick him out of the gate!" But I am weak when it comes to hurting other people's feelings, and I let him muddle on.
He gave up looking for the rest of the screws.