I have often thought it a pity that he wasn't born with a grin on his face, like the son of Ugly _Moses_.

It is true he would scarcely then have been an out and outer at Latin and matthew mattocks, but what need of either to a chap born with a grin?
Talk of being born with a silver spoon in one's mouth! give me a cove born with a grin on his face--a much better endowment.
"I will now shorten my history as much as I can, for we have talked as much as folks do during a whole night in the Commons' House, though, of course, not with so much learning, or so much to the purpose, because--why?
They are in the House of Commons, and we in a public room of an inn at Horncastle.

The goodness of the ale, do ye see, never depending on what it is made of, oh, no! but on the fashion and appearance of the jug in which it is served up.

After being turned out of the firm, I got my living in two or three honest ways, which I shall not trouble you with describing.

I did not like any of them, however, as they did not exactly suit my humour; at last I found one which did.