when I have been bobbing round all day?" "Yes!" said Flora.
— from Baby Pitcher's Trials Little Pitcher Stories by Carrie L. May

So am I. Wouldn't it be wise to stop at the old man's cottage, before remounting, and dry your shoes a little?"
— from Dorothy, and Other Italian Stories by Constance Fenimore Woolson

“And it would be ruin and disgrace—” “Yes,” she said, for I had stopped—“ruin and disgrace—” “To his poor child?”
— from The Story of Antony Grace by George Manville Fenn

She has generously, therefore, held out her protection; of which the young lady has shown herself to be worthy, upon every occasion, since we have known her, by rectitude and dignity: yet she is, at this time, without friends, support, or asylum: in such a situation, thus young and helpless, and thus irreproachably conducting herself, who is the female—what is her age, what her rank, that ought not to assist and try to preserve so distressed a young person from evil?
— from The Wanderer; or, Female Difficulties (Volume 1 of 5) by Fanny Burney