will you let me ask you one last question?
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

I say to you, in reply, ‘Neither: attempt to seize the money, and your own life is lost.”
— from What Will He Do with It? — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

Sailing on November 28th, on a lovely calm morning, Admiral Sturdee must have indeed felt a proud man; after years of labour in his profession, he had his ambition realised by the command of a powerful squadron in war with a definite task before him.
— from The Battle of the Falkland Islands, Before and After by Henry Edmund Harvey Spencer-Cooper

“General Rotil presents to you his compliments, Señora Perez, and sends his guard as a mark of respect when you are pleased to ride once more across your own lands.”
— from The Treasure Trail: A Romance of the Land of Gold and Sunshine by Marah Ellis Ryan

"Well, tell me more about your own land.
— from Mrs. Geoffrey by Duchess

And since I give you assurance on all matters which might embroil me, may it please you to perform that which you make promise of in your letter, the which is, that of your grace you will hold me as your one loved friend, and if in aught you find me disobedient, I am willing to be banished, and to accept great disgrace as my due, and may God never suffer me so much as to live if at any time I have desire to be false or untrue to you.
— from The Book of the Duke of True Lovers by de Pisan Christine

But at the end of a longer silence than any that had gone before it, as I watched her slim fingers moving noiselessly on the rail, I suddenly said, "Why do you never tell me about your own life?
— from The Great Quest A romance of 1826, wherein are recorded the experiences of Josiah Woods of Topham, and of those others with whom he sailed for Cuba and the Gulf of Guinea by Charles Boardman Hawes

Duels and personal encounters are no longer witnessed at the national metropolis, and yet our legislators have not grown craven- hearted, nor do they lack indomitable energy and sound judgment.
— from Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis by Benjamin Perley Poore

But when I had finished my own story, which I did not begin until I had extracted from him every particle of information about my family— “Well, my little Valerie,” he said caressingly, as he put his arm about my waist, “you have told me everything—all your little sorrows, and trials, and troubles—all your little pleasures and successes—all your little schemings and manoeuvrings in the love-affairs of other people—and all about the great little fortune which you have accumulated—quite a millionaire, upon my word, with your twenty-five hundred livres de rente —but not one word have you told me about your own little affaires de coeur .
— from Valerie by Frederick Marryat

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— from Love Instigated: The Story of a Carved Ivory Umbrella Handle by Douglass Sherley