I think my seclusion just now was almost as much due to baby as to anything else.

Mr.Stanbury, how is it we never see you now ?" "It is the D.R., Mrs.Trevelyan;--nothing else.

The D.R.is a most grateful mistress, but somewhat exacting.

I am allowed a couple of hours on Sundays, but otherwise my time is wholly passed in Fleet Street." "How very unpleasant." "Well; yes.

The unpleasantness of this world consists chiefly in the fact that when a man wants wages, he must earn them.