However, I'm glad the thing is cleared up: it relieves one's mind to have things cleared up.

Yes, I'll keep it a secret, Mr.Betteredge.I like to be tender to human infirmity--though I don't get many chances of exercising that virtue in my line of life.

You think Mr.Franklin Blake hasn't got a suspicion of the girl's fancy for him?
Ah! he would have found it out fast enough if she had been nice-looking.

The ugly women have a bad time of it in this world; let's hope it will be made up to them in another.

You have got a nice garden here, and a well-kept lawn.