They like to preserve appearances: we ought to consider them.' 'Preserve appearances!' echoed Tom: 'ha! who'll do that for them better than a tailor ?' Andrew was an impatient little man, fitter for a kind action than to plead a cause.

Jeering jarred on him; and from the moment his brother began it, he was of small service to Evan.

He flung back against the partition of the compound, rattling it to the disturbance of many a quiet digestion.
'Tom,' he cried, 'I believe you're a screw!' 'Never said I wasn't,' rejoined Tom, as he finished his glass.

'I 'm a bachelor, and a person--you're married, and an object.

I won't have the tailor's family at my coat-tails.' Do you mean to say, Tom, you don't like the young fellow?
The Countess says he's half engaged to an heiress; and he has a chance of appointments--of course, nothing may come of them.