The Secretary, working in the Dismal Swamp betimes next morning, was informed that a youth waited in the hall who gave the name of Sloppy. The footman who communicated this intelligence made a decent pause before uttering the name, to express that it was forced on his reluctance by the youth in question, and that if the youth had had the good sense and good taste to inherit some other name it would have spared the feelings of him the bearer.

I confess I have yet to learn that a lesson of the purest good may not be drawn from the vilest evil.

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

There was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves, and a skeleton truth that we never did. To the best of my belief, our case was in the last respect a rather common one.

I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.

Drive him fast to his tomb. This, from Jacques.

Never," said my aunt, "be mean in anything; never be false; never be cruel. Avoid those three vices, Trot, and I can always be hopeful of you.