For one thing he never got frightened, and consequently was never in too great a hurry.

Yet when the moment came for doing something sharp, he was always ready for it.

I must once more remind my readers that he had been to the back of the north wind.
One day, which was neither washing-day, nor cleaning-day nor marketing-day, nor Saturday, nor Monday--upon which consequently Diamond could be spared from the baby--his father took him on his own cab.

After a stray job or two by the way, they drew up in the row upon the stand between Cockspur Street and Pall Mall.

They waited a long time, but nobody seemed to want to be carried anywhere.