"Another bottle of vinegar?
I believe you water the garden with vinegar! More starch?
The Queen's washing, I'm firmly persuaded, doesn't come to so much as ours.
Sandpaper?
Sandpaper means wastepaper in this profligate house.

I shall tell your master.

I really _can_ NOT make the housekeeping money last at this rate.

Don't go, Madame Pratolungo! I shall have done directly.

What! You must go! Oh, then, put the book back on my lap, please--and look behind that sack of flour.