There is no harm in that if they like it.
I look at their trinkets, and say, 'I've no money;' and they say, 'Never mind;' and I don't mind much.

The understanding is, that I pay them when I inherit." "In gout and bad temper ?" "Gad, if I inherit nothing else, they'll have lots of that for indemnification.

It's a good system, Ned; it enables a young fellow like me to get through the best years of his life--which I take to be his youth--without that squalid poverty bothering him.

You can make presents, and wear a pin or a ring, if it takes your eye.

You look well, and you make yourself agreeable; and I see nothing to complain of in that." "The jewellers, then, have established an institution to correct one of the errors of Providence." "Oh! put it in your long-winded way, if you like," said Algernon; "all I know is, that I should often have wanted a five-pound note, if--that is, if I hadn't happened to be dressed like a gentleman.