Are you willing to give it to me?
Willing?
Yes, to be sure,--but I don't want you to go.

Stay; we'll make it easy for you.

There's a fund will do something for you, perhaps.

Then you can take both the annual prizes, if you like,--and claim them in money, if you want that more than medals.
I have thought it all over,--he answered,--and have pretty much made up my mind to go.
A perfectly gentlemanly young man, of courteous address and mild utterance, but means at least as much as he says.

There are some people whose rhetoric consists of a slight habitual under-statement.