Also, I don't want to have a mess made upon my floor here, or any noise or shooting.

If those men come back and find you here they will first get rather drunker and then kill you, so you had better be off while you have the chance," and she pointed to the door.
"I really am much obliged to you, my aunt," said John, utterly astonished to find that she possessed a heart at all, and more or less had been playing a part throughout the evening.
"Oh, as to that," she said drily, "it would be a great pity to kill the last English _rooibaatje_ in the whole British army; they ought to keep you as a curiosity.

Here, take a tot of brandy before you go; it is a wet night, and sometimes when you are clear of the Transvaal and remember this business, remember, too, that you owe your life to Tanta Coetzee.

But I would not have saved you, not I, if you had not been so plucky.

I like a man to be a man, and not like that miserable monkey Carolus.