If they had, they'd gone to another shop,' said Solomon, in the same tone.
'But there were two of 'em, Uncle,' cried the boy, as if that were a great triumph.

'You said only one.' 'Well, Wally,' resumed the old man, after a short pause: 'not being like the Savages who came on Robinson Crusoe's Island, we can't live on a man who asks for change for a sovereign, and a woman who inquires the way to Mile-End Turnpike.

As I said just now, the world has gone past me.
I don't blame it; but I no longer understand it.

Tradesmen are not the same as they used to be, apprentices are not the same, business is not the same, business commodities are not the same.

Seven-eighths of my stock is old-fashioned.