London is on the whole the most possible form of life.
However British you may be, I am more British still.
Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
She had a certain way of looking at life which he took as a personal offense.
Most English talk is a quadrille in a sentry-box.
You wanted to look at life for yourself - but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish. You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.