Every word Mr.
Farnaby had said had been spoken in earnest.

This man, who owes his rise from the lowest social position entirely to himself--who, judging by his own experience, has every reason to despise the poor pride of ancestry--actually feels a sincerely servile admiration for the accident of birth! "Oh, poor human nature!" as Somebody says.

How cordially I agree with Somebody! We went up to the drawing-room; and I was introduced to "the brown girl" at last.

What impression did she produce on me?
Do you know, Rufus, there is some perverse reluctance in me to go on with this inordinately long letter just when I have arrived at the most interesting part of it.

I can't account for my own state of mind; I only know that it is so.