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"She's the sort of woman now," said Mould… "one would almost feel disposed to bury for nothing: and do it neatly, too!"

The law is sic a ass - a idiot.

I had seen the damp lying on the outside of my little window, as if some goblin had been crying there all night, and using the window for a pocket-handkerchief.

The universe makes rather an indifferent parent, I'm afraid.

The New Testament is the very best book that ever was or ever will be known in the world.

The chuckle with which he said this, and the chuckle with which he paid for the turkey, and the chuckle with which he paid for the cab, and the chuckle with which he recompensed the boy, were only to be exceeded by the chuckle with which he sat down breathless in his chair again and chuckled till he cried.

The privileges of the side-table included the small prerogatives of sitting next to the toast, and taking two cups of tea to other people's one.

Whitewash on the forehead hardens the brain into a state of obstinacy, perhaps.

He has got his discharge, by G-! said the man. He had. But he had grown so like death in life, that they knew not when he died.

The very stars to which I then raised my eyes, I am afraid I took to be but poor and humble stars for glittering on the rustic objects among which I had passed my life.

Among these, accordingly, much discoursing with spirits went on - and it did a world of good which never became manifest.

Don't say nothin' wotever about it, ma'am,' replied Sam. 'I only assisted natur, ma'am; as the doctor said to the boy's mother, after he'd bled him to death.