He couldn't have formulated his theory of the matter, but the exuberance of the aristocracy was the advantage of trade, and everything was knit together in a richness of pattern that it was good to follow with one's finger-tips.

It was a comfort to him to be thus assured that there were no symptoms of a drop.

What did the sounder, as she called it, nimbly worked, do but keep the ball going?
What it came to therefore for Mr.Mudge was that all enjoyments were, as might be said, inter-related, and that the more people had the more they wanted to have.

The more flirtations, as he might roughly express it, the more cheese and pickles.

He had even in his own small way been dimly struck with the linked sweetness connecting the tender passion with cheap champagne, or perhaps the other way round.