I will not tell you how we sought to vary the monotonousness of imprisonment.

Oswald thought of taming a mouse, but he could not find one.

The reason of the wretched captives might have given way but for the gutter that you can crawl along from our room to the girls'.

But I will not dwell on this because you might try it yourselves, and it really is dangerous.

When my father came home we got the talking to, and we said we were sorry--and we really were--especially about Daisy, though she had behaved with muffishness, and then it was settled that we were to go into the country and stay till we had grown into better children.
Albert's uncle was writing a book in the country; we were to go to his house.