They must be respectable people, to judge by you.

What is their proper name, and how much have they got to live upon ?" "More than you--a great deal more than you," she answered, with such a roguish smile that he forgot his grievances, or began to lose them in the mist of beauty.
"More than me! And they live in such a hole, where only the crows come near them ?" "Yes, more than you, Sir.

They have their wits to live upon, and industry, and honesty." Pet was not old enough yet in the world to say, "What is the use of all those?
All their income is starvation." He was young enough to think that those who owned them had advantage of him, for he knew that he was very lazy.

Moreover, he had heard of such people getting on--through the striking power of exception, so much more brilliant than the rule--when all the blind virtues found luck to lead them.

Industry, honesty, and ability always get on in story-books, and nothing is nicer than to hear a pretty story.