The quantity of clothes got together seemed to be more than any two men could ever wear; and among it all there were no dress-coats and no dress-trousers: or, if either of them had such articles, they were smuggled.

The two young men were going out as miners, and took a delight in preparing themselves to be rough.

Caldigate was at first somewhat modest in submitting his own belongings to the females of the establishment but that feeling soon wore off, and the markings and mendings, and buttonings and hemmings went on in a strictly impartial manner as though he himself were a chick out of the same brood.
'What will you do ?' said the doctor, 'if you spend your capital and make nothing ?' 'Work for wages,' said Dick.

'We shall have got, at any rate, enough experience out of our money to be able to do that.

Men are getting 10s.
a-day.' 'But you'd have to go on doing that always,' said the mother.
'Not at all.