If my whole reliance and confidence were not placed in you, I must have a hard heart indeed.

I have nothing to ask you, nothing in the world." He drew my hand through his arm and we went away to look for Ada.
From that hour I felt quite easy with him, quite unreserved, quite content to know no more, quite happy.
We lived, at first, rather a busy life at Bleak House, for we had to become acquainted with many residents in and out of the neighbourhood who knew Mr.Jarndyce.It seemed to Ada and me that everybody knew him who wanted to do anything with anybody else's money.

It amazed us when we began to sort his letters and to answer some of them for him in the growlery of a morning to find how the great object of the lives of nearly all his correspondents appeared to be to form themselves into committees for getting in and laying out money.

The ladies were as desperate as the gentlemen; indeed, I think they were even more so.

They threw themselves into committees in the most impassioned manner and collected subscriptions with a vehemence quite extraordinary.