Now, there's my Dick: he respects your husband; you can see he does.

In his odious slang way, he says he's 'some,' and 'a brick;' and he's a little anxious to please him, though he professes not to care for anybody.

Now, Dick has pretty sharp sense, after all, or he'd never have been just where he is." Our friend John, during these days preceding the party, the party itself, and the clearing up after it, enacted submissively that part of unconditional surrender which the master of the house, if well trained, generally acts on such occasions.

He resembled the prize ox, which is led forth adorned with garlands, ribbons, and docility, to grace a triumphal procession.

He went where he was told, did as he was bid, marched to the right, marched to the left, put on gloves and cravat, and took them off, entirely submissive to the word of his little general; and exhibited, in short, an edifying spectacle of that pleasant domestic animal, a tame husband.