He was fond of young companions; and though his wife was such a _superior woman_, and such an incomparable housekeeper, there was nothing very exhilarating about her.
"I can't go," said Madge; "I must stay and take care of Gabriella." "If you play any of your wild pranks on her again," said the doctor, "it were better for you that you had never been born." With this threat he departed; and it seemed as if a dozen people had been added to the household in the person of the dauntless Meg.

I never saw any one with such a flow of animal spirits, with so much oxygen in their composition.

I should think the vital principle in such a constitution would burn out sooner than in others, like a flame fed by alcohol.

She was older than myself, and yet had no more apparent reflection than a child of five years old.

It was impossible to make her angry.