Well, George Rowley, you might embrace some early opportunity to earn that half-guinea, by telling Mr. Powl that your master will not leave here till noon to-morrow, if he go even then.
— from St. Ives: Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England by Robert Louis Stevenson
"I expect she thinks she can get round you more easy," said Sarah, who was a very old servant, and occasionally took liberties with her master and mistress.
— from Brooke's Daughter: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant
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