I don't, of course, like to make suggestions now, but it will be different afterwards.

I am sure that Raffles will do it if I ask him.

It is all very well for him to say that he does not want any thanks or honours, but I should like to know what is the use of being a public benefactor if you are to have no return for it.

I am sure that if he does only half what he talks of doing, they will make him a peer--Lord Tamfield, perhaps--and then, of course, I shall be my Lady Tamfield, and what would you think of that, Bob ?" She dropped him a stately curtsey, and tossed her head in the air, as one who was born to wear a coronet.
"Father must be pensioned off," she remarked presently.

"He shall have so much a year on condition that he keeps away.