I should be astonished if they did not take place.

Don't mix yourself up with anything.

If people are neglected, they _are_ neglected, and there is the end of it.

To imagine that you or I are going to do any good by filling up the breach, is simply an insanity leading to unnecessarily disagreeable consequences.

I know you go to see Mr.Reffold.Take my advice, and keep away." "You speak like a Calvinist," she answered, rather ruffled, "with the quintessence of self-protectiveness; and I don't believe you mean a word you say." "My dear young woman," he said, "we are not living in a poetry book bound with gilt edges.