Indeed, too sadly so, and I dare apply but a flash of the microscope to the rageing dilemmas of this animalcule.

Five and twenty minutes had signalled their departure from the hour of seven, when Algernon pronounced his final verdict upon Edward's conduct by leaving the Club.

He returned to it a quarter of an hour later, and lingered on in desperate mood till eight.
He had neither watch in his pocket, nor ring on his finger, nor disposable stud in his shirt.

The sum of twenty-one pence was in his possession, and, I ask you, as he asked himself, how is a gentleman to dine upon that?
He laughed at the notion.

The irony of Providence sent him by a cook's shop, where the mingled steam of meats and puddings rushed out upon the wayfarer like ambushed bandits, and seized him and dragged him in, or sent him qualmish and humbled on his way.
Two little boys had flattened their noses to the whiteness of winkles against the jealously misty windows.