For herself, if she had had an old crow for dinner it would have been the same thing.

Tea and bread-and-butter were her luxuries, and her tea and bread-and-butter had been enjoyed three hours ago.

"I declare I think that, after all, the leg is the better joint of the two." "Then why don't you have the two legs ?" "There would be a savor of greediness in that, though I know that the leg will go down,--and I shouldn't then be able to draw the comparison.

I like to have them both, and I like always to be able to assert my opinion that the leg is the better joint.

Now, how about the apple-pudding?
You said I should have an apple-pudding." From which it appeared that Mr.Grey was not superior to having the dinner discussed in his presence at the breakfast-table.