It is my duty to suggest measures for putting off the ceremony as long as possible.
Perhaps, however, you may wish to hasten it." "Well, I am not very anxious about it, one way or the other," said Scatcherd.

And as he spoke there came a fierce gleam from his eye, which seemed to say--"If that's the bugbear with which you wish to frighten me, you will find that you are mistaken." "Now, doctor, don't let him talk that way, don't," said Lady Scatcherd, with her handkerchief to her eyes.
"Now, my lady, do you cut it; cut at once," said Sir Roger, turning hastily round to his better-half; and his better-half, knowing that the province of a woman is to obey, did cut it.

But as she went she gave the doctor a pull by the coat's sleeve, so that thereby his healing faculties might be sharpened to the very utmost.
"The best woman in the world, doctor; the very best," said he, as the door closed behind the wife of his bosom.
"I'm sure of it," said the doctor.
"Yes, till you find a better one," said Scatcherd.

"Ha! ha! ha! but good or bad, there are some things which a woman can't understand, and some things which she ought not to be let to understand." "It's natural she should be anxious about your health, you know." "I don't know that," said the contractor.

"She'll be very well off.
All that whining won't keep a man alive, at any rate." There was a pause, during which the doctor continued his medical examination.