Mrs. Boffin, insisting that Bella should make tomorrow's expedition in the chariot, she went home in great grandeur. Mrs. Wilfer and Miss Lavinia had speculated much on the probabilities and improbabilities of her coming in this gorgeous state, and, on beholding the chariot from the window at which they were secreted to look out for it, agreed that it must be detained at the door as long as possible, for the mortification and confusion of the neighbours.

There was a frosty rime upon the trees, which, in the faint light of the clouded moon, hung upon the smaller branches like dead garlands.

Battledore and shuttlecock's a wery good game, vhen you an't the shuttlecock and two lawyers the battledores, in which case it gets too exciting to be pleasant.

I never see any difference in boys. I only know two sorts of boys. Mealy boys and beef-faced boys.

It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand.

She writhes under her life. A woman more angry, passionate, reckless, and revengeful never lived.

A contented spirit is the sweetness of existence.