mysterious dispensations...

here we are to make the best we can of it.' 'For the creature Society's indebted to?
True.

And am I to think there's a body of legal gentlemen to join with you, my friend, in founding an Institution to distribute funds to preach charity over the country, and win compassion for her, as one of the principal persons of her time, that Society's indebted to for whatever it's indebted for ?' 'Scarcely that,' said Carling, contracting.
'But you 're for great Reforms ?' 'Gradual.' 'Then it's for Reformatories, mayhap.' 'They would hardly be a cure.' 'You 're in search of a cure ?' 'It would be a blessed discovery.' 'But what's to become of Society ?' 'It's a puzzle to the cleverest.' 'All through History, my dear Mr.Carling, we see that.
'Establishments must have their sacrifices.

Beware of interfering: eh ?' 'By degrees, we may hope....' 'Society prudently shuns the topic; and so 'll we.

For we might tell of one another, in a fit of distraction, that t' other one talked of it, and we should be banished for an offence against propriety.