Indeed he said, he had given his visitor up, and was about to partake of that simple refreshment with his children, when he knocked at the door.
'Your daughters are well ?' said old Martin, laying down his hat and stick.
Mr Pecksniff endeavoured to conceal his agitation as a father when he answered Yes, they were.

They were good girls, he said, very good.

He would not venture to recommend Mr Chuzzlewit to take the easy-chair, or to keep out of the draught from the door.

If he made any such suggestion, he would expose himself, he feared, to most unjust suspicion.

He would, therefore, content himself with remarking that there was an easy-chair in the room, and that the door was far from being air-tight.