Affery, like greater people, had always been right in her facts, and always wrong in the theories she deduced from them.

Captain Cuttle, like all mankind, little knew how much hope had survived within him under discouragement, until he felt its death-shock.

So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!

I don't suppose there's a man going, as possesses the fondness for youth that I do. There's youth to the amount of eight hundredpound a-year, at Dotheboys Hall at this present time. I'd take sixteen hundred pound worth, if I could get 'em, and be as fond of every individual twenty pound among 'em as nothing should equal it!

My meaning is, that no man can expect his children to respect what he degrades.

There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast.

She had curiously thoughtful and attentive eyes; eyes that were very pretty and very good.