It's really astonishing that, with your talents, you should be content to go on teaching children their A.B.

C.You have no energy, Dyce, and no ambition.

By this time you might have been in the diplomatic service, you might have been in Parliament.

Are you going to waste your whole life ?" "That depends on the view one takes of life," said Dyce, in a philosophical tone which he sometimes adopted--generally after dinner.
"Why should one always be thinking about 'getting on ?' It's the vice of the time.

Why should I elbow and hustle in a vulgar crowd?
A friend of mine, Lord Dymchurch--" "What! You have made friends with a lord ?" cried Mrs.Lashmar, her face illumined.
"Why not ?--I was going to say that Dymchurch, though he's poor, and does nothing at all, is probably about the most distinguished man in the peerage.