The alternative is, a garter and the bedpost.

When we have come upon crossways, and we can decide neither to take the right hand nor the left, neither forward nor back, the index of the board which would direct us points to itself, and emphatically says, Gallows.' 'Beamish, I am distracted.

If I refuse her the visit, I foresee dissensions, tears, games at ball, romps, not one day of rest remaining to me.

I could be of a mind with your Puritan, positively.

If I allow it, so innocent a creature in the atmosphere of a place like this must suffer some corruption.