Hugh Carnaby's position called for no lament; he had a sufficient income of his own, and would now easily overcome his wife's pernicious influence; with or without her, he would break away from a life of corrupting indolence, and somewhere beyond seas 'beat the British drum'-- use his superabundant vitality as nature prompted.
After all, it promised to clear the air.

These explosions were periodic, inevitable, wholesome.

The Britannia Loan, &c, &c, &c, had run its pestilent course; exciting avarice, perturbing quiet industry with the passion of the gamester, inflating vulgar ambition, now at length scattering wreck and ruin.

This is how mankind progresses.
Harvey Rolfe felt glad that no theological or scientific dogma constrained him to a justification of the laws of life.
At lunchtime, newspaper boys began to yell.

The earliest placards roared in immense typography.