As often as possible he feigned illness.

He tried the effect of dolorous sighs and groans; but Mrs.Peak could not dream of conceding a point which would have seemed to her the condonation of deadly sin.

'When I am a man!' muttered Godwin.

'Ah! when I am a man!' A year had gone by, and the routine to which he was bound began to have a servile flavour.

His mind chafed at subjugation to commercial interests.