It was plainly a great house, and my uncle lived there in style.

The fame of it rose as we approached, like a chain of mountains; at Bedford they touched their caps, but in Dunstable they crawled upon their bellies.

I thought the landlady would have kissed me; such a flutter of cordiality, such smiles, such affectionate attentions were called forth, and the good lady bustled on my service in such a pother of ringlets and with such a jingling of keys.

'You're probably expected, sir, at the Place?
I do trust you may 'ave better accounts of his lordship's 'elth, sir.

We understood that his lordship, Mosha de Carwell, was main bad.