She respected Mr.
Charrington far too highly, she remarked, to make merry at his expense.
"My friends' oddities are always sacred to me," she said quite seriously.

"Most people have their own little failings and idiosyncrasies, but one need not make copy out of them.

Don't you agree with me, Mr.Herrick, that there is too little sense of honour in these matters?
To raise a laugh, or to sharpen their own wit, many people will expose their best friend to ridicule." "Oh, shut up, Betty," remonstrated her brother, "it is too bad to moralise; and after all old Dr.Dryasdust is a capital subject for sport." "Perhaps so, but all the same your sister is right," returned Malcolm.
"We are a little thoughtless, as she says.

We ought to refuse to give our tongue such licence when a friend's crochets and whimsies are in question.

It is the easiest thing in the world to satirise and caricature.