They are used to it: we take care to accustom them to sacrifices but, my good sir, the amount of self-denial which you have probably exerted through life, when put down to your account elsewhere, will not probably swell the balance on the credit side much.

Well, well, there is no use in speaking of such ugly matters, and you are too polite to use a vulgar to quoque.

But I wish to state once for all that I greatly admire the Major for his conduct during the past quarter, and think that he has quite a right to be pleased at getting a holiday.

Foker and Pen saw him off in the coach, and the former young gentleman gave particular orders to the coachman to take care of that gentleman inside.

It pleased the elder Pendennis to have his nephew in the company of a young fellow who would introduce him to the best set of the university.