And yet it's a fine thing not to understand 'em.

I hardly know which is best.

It's so comfortable to sit here and feel that you might be weighed, measured, magnified, electrified, polarized, played the very devil with: and never know how.' Nothing short of the wonderful Madeira, combined with the occasion (which rendered it desirable to improve and expand Walter's mind), could have ever loosened his tongue to the extent of giving utterance to this prodigious oration.

He seemed quite amazed himself at the manner in which it opened up to view the sources of the taciturn delight he had had in eating Sunday dinners in that parlour for ten years.

Becoming a sadder and a wiser man, he mused and held his peace.
'Come!' cried the subject of this admiration, returning.