Why can't _you_ take this boy ?" "I take him! why, my dear, I don't want an apprentice." "Yes, but you must _make_ a want.

You said he was a bright boy, and sketched well.

Why, I should think that he's just what you ought to have.
There is no one at your office that would oppose it.

Cummings and Dalton were with your father before you, they would never object to anything reasonable that you proposed.

Come, dear! do now make the trial--won't you ?" Mr.Burrell was a tender-hearted, yielding sort of an individual; and what was more, his wife was fully aware of it; and like a young witch as she was, she put on her sweetest looks, and begged so imploringly, that he was almost conquered.