I will be so good, and not disobey you ever any more, Jude, if you will let me?
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

I’ve only got one child as is still dependent on me, thank God, and no doubt your executors will feel it their duty to do the right thing by the old woman.”
— from Three Men on the Bummel by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

You have tended my grievous wounds like a gentleman and now do you wish me to unfold my past, present and future?" "I want you to get out of this and be quick about it.
— from Rosalind at Red Gate by Meredith Nicholson

" "Yes, and gave you little presents and told you to be a good gyurl and never disgrace your uncle.
— from The Town Traveller by George Gissing

Nellie, whose education I had begun, as you know, when you were a boy, had grown into a remarkably clever and pretty girl, as, no doubt, you will admit.
— from The Coxswain's Bride; also, Jack Frost and Sons; and, A Double Rescue by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

You may even, by Comte Ferraud’s intervention, have your name replaced on the army list as general, and no doubt you will get a pension.”
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

“The place is not in any sense guarded, as no doubt you remember.”
— from The Sack of Monte Carlo: An Adventure of To-day by Walter Frith

I now began to feel that great and noble duties yet claimed me.
— from Waldfried: A Novel by Berthold Auerbach