His pain of mind was most pitiable to see. It was the mental torture of a conscientious man, oppressed beyond endurance by an unintelligible responsibility involving life.
Theer's been kiender a blessing fell upon us ... and we've done nowt but prosper. That is, in the long run. If not yesterday, why then today. If not today, why then tomorrow.
He repaid her by breaking her fortune, and nearly breaking her heart. So she put all that sort of sentiment, once and for ever, in a grave, and filled it up, and flattened it down.
It is a pleasant world we live in, sir, a very pleasant world. There are bad people in it.
I am the only child of parents who weighed, measured, and priced everything: for whom what could not be weighed, measured and priced, had no existence.