"I suppose you mean that I am to do my work for my wages; not to expect favour from you, and not to depend on you for any help but what I earn; that suits me exactly, and on these terms I will consent to be your clerk."
"You perhaps expect to be accommodated with apartments at Crimsworth Hall, and to go and come with me in the gig.
"You are poor enough, I suppose; how do you expect to live till your quarter's salary becomes due?"
"How do you expect to live?" he repeated in a louder voice.
The convention, in short, would be composed chiefly of men who had been, who actually were, or who expected to be, members of the department whose conduct was arraigned.
But still it could never be expected to turn on the true merits of the question.
I look on the noble family of the Herncastles as being my nest; and I shall take it as a favour if I am not expected to enter into particulars on the subject of the Honourable John.
I expected him to break out, even at that polite way of putting it.
Nobody ever heard the like of it, and, consequently, nobody can be expected to believe it.
Even if it was, such was to be
expected. I should be the last man in the world to object, since I am myself an offender in that respect.
Moreover, Prince Andrew was
expected in Moscow, where old Prince Bolkonski was spending the winter, and Natasha felt sure he had already arrived.
He had not
expected Strickland to take him up on the spot and make his preparations to go there and then; above all, he had not
expected his wife's decision to go with him.