It is a simple calculation enough, though there is no use my boring you with figures.
— from A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle

So you are crying from morning until night and from night until morning, because your husband leaves you; you do not know what to do and so you ask your old aunt for advice; you must consider her quite an expert.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

It iss none uf my biziness, yett."
— from Watch Yourself Go By by Al. G. (Alfred Griffith) Field

For when I said to her, 'Natalie, an Englishman will do a good deal for the good of the people—he will give you his sympathy, his advice, his time, his labor—but he will not put his hand in his pocket;' then she said, 'Ah, but you do not understand Mr. Brand yet, papa; he is with us; he is not one to go back.'"
— from Sunrise by William Black

Instead of flying into a fury, as he too often did, Ludovic surveyed the handsome figure of the captive and said, not unkindly, "My brave young gentleman, come hither and tell me what brought thee to Milan."
— from With Spurs of Gold: Heroes of Chivalry and their Deeds by Dolly Williams Kirk

"Nobody understands me but you!"
— from The Dweller on the Threshold by Robert Hichens

There’s nobody understands me, but you.
— from Grit Lawless by F. E. Mills (Florence Ethel Mills) Young

You have not understood me, because you have not listened to me; but I forgive you, for you know not what you say.”
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac