What did you take last?
Was it breakfast, lunch, dinner, tea, or supper?
And what will you take next?
Shall it be breakfast, lunch, dinner, tea, or supper ?' The respectful tenderness with which, on one knee before her, he helped her to remove her hat, and disentangle her pretty hair from it, was quite a chivalrous sight.

Yet who, knowing him only on the surface, would have expected chivalry--and of the true sort, too; not the spurious--from Mr.
Grewgious?
'Your rest too must be provided for,' he went on; 'and you shall have the prettiest chamber in Furnival's.

Your toilet must be provided for, and you shall have everything that an unlimited head chambermaid--by which expression I mean a head chambermaid not limited as to outlay--can procure.

Is that a bag ?' he looked hard at it; sooth to say, it required hard looking at to be seen at all in a dimly lighted room: 'and is it your property, my dear ?' 'Yes, sir.

I brought it with me.' 'It is not an extensive bag,' said Mr.Grewgious, candidly, 'though admirably calculated to contain a day's provision for a canary-bird.
Perhaps you brought a canary-bird ?' Rosa smiled and shook her head.
'If you had, he should have been made welcome,' said Mr.Grewgious, 'and I think he would have been pleased to be hung upon a nail outside and pit himself against our Staple sparrows; whose execution must be admitted to be not quite equal to their intention.