We would have argued our case, too.

I proposed a gallop; Temple said, 'No, we'll give the old statue our cheer as soon as this awful fellow has done.

I don't care much for poetry, but don't let me ever have to stand and hear German poetry again for the remainder of my life.' We could not imagine why they should have poetry read out to them instead of their fine band playing, but supposed it was for the satisfaction of the margravine, with whom I grew particularly annoyed on hearing Miss Sibley say she conceived her Highness to mean that my father was actually on the ground, and that we neither of us, father and son, knew one another.

I swore on my honour, on my life, he was not present; and the melancholy in my heart taking the form of extreme irritation, I spoke passionately.

I rose in my stirrups, ready to shout, 'Father! here's Harry Richmond come to see you.