The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.
Youth had been a habit of hers for so long that she could not part with it.
He became an officer and a gentleman, which is an enviable thing.
Never praise a sister to a sister, in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears, and so preparing the way for you later on. Sisters are women first, and sisters afterwards; and you will find that you do yourself harm.
And what should they know of England who only England know?
He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.