Some good and some bad goes, no doubt, to all callings.

What I wish is, that parties was brought up stronger-minded.' Mr.Omer, with a very complacent and amiable face, took several puffs in silence; and then said, resuming his first point: 'Accordingly we're obleeged, in ascertaining how Barkis goes on, to limit ourselves to Em'ly.

She knows what our real objects are, and she don't have any more alarms or suspicions about us, than if we was so many lambs.

Minnie and Joram have just stepped down to the house, in fact (she's there, after hours, helping her aunt a bit), to ask her how he is tonight; and if you was to please to wait till they come back, they'd give you full partic'lers.

Will you take something?
A glass of srub and water, now?
I smoke on srub and water, myself,' said Mr.Omer, taking up his glass, 'because it's considered softening to the passages, by which this troublesome breath of mine gets into action.