"You cannot think, my dear Smiles, how that obligation weighs on me.

The expense of a saucepan--what is it?
And yet--" He seemed to ponder.

Of a sudden his brow cleared.
"-- Unless, to be sure--that is to say, if you should happen to have a shilling about you ?" "I got no change but 'arf-a-crown, if that's any use," answered the charmed Sam.
"Nothing smaller?
Still," suggested Mr.Mortimer quickly, "I could bring back the change." "Yes, do." "It will please Arabella, too.

In point of fact, during the whole of our married life I have made it a rule never to absent myself from her side without bringing back some trifling gift.

Women--as you will understand one of these days--set a value on these _petits soins_; and somewhere in the neighbourhood of the iron bridge a tinsmith's should not be hard to find.