Nothing turned up that day I opened my mind to you, as was at all likely to suit me.

All them trades I thought of was a deal too jolly; there was no credit at all to be got in any of 'em.

I must look for a private service, I suppose, sir.

I might be brought out strong, perhaps, in a serious family, Mr Pinch.' 'Perhaps you might come out rather too strong for a serious family's taste, Mark.' 'That's possible, sir.

If I could get into a wicked family, I might do myself justice; but the difficulty is to make sure of one's ground, because a young man can't very well advertise that he wants a place, and wages an't so much an object as a wicked sitivation; can he, sir ?' 'Why, no,' said Mr Pinch, 'I don't think he can.' 'An envious family,' pursued Mark, with a thoughtful face; 'or a quarrelsome family, or a malicious family, or even a good out-and-out mean family, would open a field of action as I might do something in.
The man as would have suited me of all other men was that old gentleman as was took ill here, for he really was a trying customer.