In conclusion, if you feel a sense of having injured me, and a desire to make some small reparation, I hope you will think how respectable you might have been yourself and will contemplate your blighted existence.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

In cases where, from long illness or other infirmity, a gentleman friend is confined entirely to his room, you may, with perfect propriety, call upon him.
— from The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society by Florence Hartley

I refer myself wholly to your goodness and direction; and am, with the highest respect, 'Your most faithful humble servant.' 'Don't think this a sudden resolution.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

I sometimes think he resembles you more than his father; and I am glad of it.’
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

From time to time he replied: “Yes, Madame Hauser,” but his thoughts seemed far away and his calm features remained unmoved.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

'I know not,' answered the gentleman; 'but wherever it was, the news thereof hath reached you mighty early.'
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

I ought to have relieved you myself, but I kept the first watch, and was tired.
— from Peter Simple; and, The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2 by Frederick Marryat

Our carriage mounted still among crags, that bowed from each side to meet across the narrow gorge, and were crested on high by the grand trees that will be felled and floated down the Rhine on one of those huge rafts you meet at Strasbourg.
— from A Thousand Miles in the Rob Roy Canoe on Rivers and Lakes of Europe by John MacGregor

the sergeant!" Rodolph hastened to him: "Recover yourself, my good fellow!"
— from The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 1 of 6 by Eugène Sue

[62] of the Rejang river, and occupying the vast tract of land between it and the territory of the Sultan of Brunei in North Borneo; the Kanowits, who take their name from the stream of that name, which rises in the Batang Lupar Residency, and runs into the Rejang; and the Poonans, Pakatans, Sians, and Ukits, the latter of whom are acknowledged to be the wildest of the human race yet met with in Borneo.
— from On the Equator by Harry De Windt

If your deserts bear that high rate you mention, Why should you doubt your fortune?
— from A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 13 by Robert Dodsley

and you would see that he regards you merely as a part of the show.”
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

I commit this Letter to Y r B rs Care, and trust to Him for conveying it to you, sure that the best recommendation it can have will be its coming under his protection; accompanied with Marks of His Partiality; and I hope that you will believe D r Madam, that I am with all the esteem possible, and the highest regard, Your most faithful and Obed.
— from Lord Chatham, His Early Life and Connections by Rosebery, Archibald Philip Primrose, Earl of