If Natur has gifted a man with powers of argeyment, a man has a right to make the best of 'em, and has not a right to stand on false delicacy, and deny that he is so gifted; for that is a turning of his back on Natur, a flouting of her, a slighting of her precious caskets, and a proving of one's self to be a swine that isn't worth her scattering pearls before.

Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit?

For your popular rumour, unlike the rolling stone of the proverb, is one which gathers a deal of moss in its wanderings up and down.

God bless us, every one!

I was a blacksmith's boy but yesterday; I am - what shall I say I am today?

Nobody near me here, but rats, and they are fine stealthy secret fellows.

"Peggotty!" repeated Miss Betsey, with some indignation. "Do you mean to say, child, that any human being has gone into a Christian church, and got herself named Peggotty?"