No bringing up by hand then.

Not a bit of it!" Joe offered me more gravy, which I was afraid to take.
"He was a world of trouble to you, ma'am," said Mrs.Hubble, commiserating my sister.
"Trouble ?" echoed my sister; "trouble ?" and then entered on a fearful catalogue of all the illnesses I had been guilty of, and all the acts of sleeplessness I had committed, and all the high places I had tumbled from, and all the low places I had tumbled into, and all the injuries I had done myself, and all the times she had wished me in my grave, and I had contumaciously refused to go there.
I think the Romans must have aggravated one another very much, with their noses.

Perhaps, they became the restless people they were, in consequence.

Anyhow, Mr.Wopsle's Roman nose so aggravated me, during the recital of my misdemeanours, that I should have liked to pull it until he howled.

But, all I had endured up to this time was nothing in comparison with the awful feelings that took possession of me when the pause was broken which ensued upon my sister's recital, and in which pause everybody had looked at me (as I felt painfully conscious) with indignation and abhorrence.
"Yet," said Mr.Pumblechook, leading the company gently back to the theme from which they had strayed, "Pork--regarded as biled--is rich, too; ain't it ?" "Have a little brandy, uncle," said my sister.
O Heavens, it had come at last! He would find it was weak, he would say it was weak, and I was lost! I held tight to the leg of the table under the cloth, with both hands, and awaited my fate.
My sister went for the stone bottle, came back with the stone bottle, and poured his brandy out: no one else taking any.