She stood in the corner because they told her she must; and she married Tom for the same reason, and I don't suppose she's been particularly happy with him." "Well, that's her look-out," answered Philip gloomily; "I know I want a rich wife badly enough.

Things are about as bad with me as they can be." "I suppose they _are_ rather piscatorial.

The elderly dowagers don't come up to time, eh?
Very few orders for the complete set at ten-pound-ten ?" "I took about seventy pounds last year," said the dentist, "and my expenses are something like five pounds a week.

I've been making up the deficiency out of the money I got for the Barlingford business, thinking I should be able to stand out and make a connection; but the connection gets more disconnected every year.

I suppose people came to me at first for the novelty of the thing, for I had a sprinkling of decent patients for the first twelve months or so.