Nay, he had already consulted with brother jurats.

For you must know that one of the princesses had recently suffered betrothal in the newspapers, and supposing her to deign to ratify the engagement, what so reasonable on the part of a Cinque Port chieftain as to congratulate his liege mistress, her illustrious mother?
These are thoughts and these are deeds >which give emotional warmth and colour to the ejecter members of a population wretchedly befogged.

They are our sunlight, and our brighter theme of conversation.

They are necessary to the climate and the Saxon mind; and it would be foolish to put them away, as it is foolish not to do our utmost to be intimate with terrestrial splendours while we have them--as it may be said of wardens, mayors, and bailiffs-at command.
Tinman was quite of this opinion.

They are there to relieve our dulness.
We have them in the place of heavenly; and he would have argued that we have a right to bother them too.