It's the best thing that ever happened to me.

Every one's wanting to see 'em, and there's the old woman dressed up in her Sunday clothes a-sitting in the parlor as proud as a peacock a showing of 'em off.

The house ain't been so quiet since I married.

Them animals would be cheap to me at a ten pound note.

They'll get you no end of orders, I can tell you." The orders, indeed, came in much faster than Frank could fulfill them, although he worked twelve hours a day; laying aside all other work, however, for three hours in order to devote himself to the shop cases, which were to be chef d'oeuvres..