But Miss Dolly Darling was resolved to see him righted, for she hated all national meanness.
"What is the use of having any influence," she asked her good father, "unless you employ it for your own friends?
I should be quite ashamed to have it said of me, or thought, that I could get a good thing for any one I was fond of, and was mean enough not to do it, for fear of paltry jealousy.

Mean is much too weak a word; it is downright dishonest, and what is much worse, cowardly.

What is the government meant for, unless it is to do good to people ?" "Certainly, my dear child, certainly.

To the people at large, that is to say, and the higher interests of the country." "Can there be any people more at large than Captain Stubbard and his wife and children?
Their elbows are coming out of their clothes, and they have scarcely got a bed to sleep upon.

My income is not enough to stop to count, even when I get it paid punctually.