You'll be rich enough now--with your Boffins.

You can have as much flirting as you like--at your Boffins.

But you won't take ME to your Boffins, I can tell you--you and your Boffins too!' 'If,' quoth Mr George Sampson, moodily pulling his stopper out, 'Miss Bella's Mr Boffin comes any more of his nonsense to ME, I only wish him to understand, as betwixt man and man, that he does it at his per--' and was going to say peril; but Miss Lavinia, having no confidence in his mental powers, and feeling his oration to have no definite application to any circumstances, jerked his stopper in again, with a sharpness that made his eyes water.
And now the worthy Mrs Wilfer, having used her youngest daughter as a lay-figure for the edification of these Boffins, became bland to her, and proceeded to develop her last instance of force of character, which was still in reserve.

This was, to illuminate the family with her remarkable powers as a physiognomist; powers that terrified R.W.

when ever let loose, as being always fraught with gloom and evil which no inferior prescience was aware of.