Oh, why was I ever born, to do man's work ?" "Because, miss, a man would not have done it half so well.

When you saw that villain digging, a man would have rushed out and spoiled all chance.

And now what man could have ever found this?
Would Master Withypool ever have emptied the Moon River for a man, do you think?
Or could any man have been down among us all this time, in this jealous place, without his business being long ago sifted out and scattered over him?
No, no, miss; you must not talk like that--and with me as well to help you.

The rogues will have reason to wish, I do believe, that they had only got a man to deal with." In this argument there were points which had occurred to me before; but certainly it is a comfort to have one's own ideas in a doubtful matter reproduced, and perhaps put better, by a mind to which one may have lent them, perhaps, with a loan all unacknowledged.

However, trouble teaches care, and does it so well that the master and the lesson in usage of words are now the same; therefore I showed no sign of being suggested with my own suggestions, but only asked, quietly, "What am I to do ?" "My dear young lady," Mrs.Busk replied, after stopping some time to think of it, "my own opinion is, for my part, that you ought to consult somebody." "But I am, Mrs.Busk.I am now consulting you." "Then I think, miss, that this precious case should be taken at once to a jeweler, who can open it without doing any damage, which is more than we can do." "To be sure; I have thought of that," I replied.