If purely, so much the better for us; if vilely, viciously, there is no end to the contaminating association.

It is to escape this that some men work, and others pray.
The furniture of the room was peculiar to the neighborhood; massive, yet cheap.

It had been good once; but long before it came into the hands of her who now owned it.

There was the round bulging looking-glass; the side-board was adapted for quite a magnificent show of plate and tankards--only there were none; a horse-hair sofa, from which you would have seen the intestines protruding had it not been for the continuous gloom.

If the sun ever visited Rupert Street, it shone on the other side of the way.