There might be some credit in being jolly.

Perhaps second-hand cares, like second-hand clothes, come easily off and on.

Take a little timecount five-and-twenty,Tattycoram.

If they would rather die, . . . they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.

Loves and Cupids took to flight afraid, and Martyrdom had no such torment in its painted history of suffering.

I don't remember who was there, except Dora. I have not the least idea what we had for dinner, besides Dora. My impression is, that I dined off Dora, entirely, and sent away half-a-dozen plates untouched. I sat next to her. I talked to her. She had the most delightful little voice, the gayest little laugh, the pleasantest and most fascinating little ways, that ever led a lost youth into hopeless slavery. She was rather diminutive altogether. So much the more precious, I thought.

Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering.