Doing charmingly.' 'I am very happy and very thankful to know it,' said the debtor, 'though I little thought once, that--' 'That a child would be born to you in a place like this ?' said the doctor.

'Bah, bah, sir, what does it signify?
A little more elbow-room is all we want here.

We are quiet here; we don't get badgered here; there's no knocker here, sir, to be hammered at by creditors and bring a man's heart into his mouth.

Nobody comes here to ask if a man's at home, and to say he'll stand on the door mat till he is.

Nobody writes threatening letters about money to this place.