"Be as conservative as you like, Swan.

Why shouldn't you?
It's the only right thing." "Nothing can be very far wrong as Old Master thinks," answered Swan.

"He never interfered with my ways of doing my work either, no more than Mr.
John does, and that's a thing I vally; and he never but once wanted me to do what I grudged doing." "When was that ?" asked Mr.Augustus John.
"Why, when he made me give up that there burial club," answered Swan.
"He said it was noways a moral institootion; and so I shouldn't have even a decent burying to look forward to for me and my wife (my poor daughters being widows, and a great expense to me), if he hadn't said he'd bury us himself if I'd give it up, and bury us respectably too, it stands to reason.

Mr.John heard him." "Then, thath the thame thing ath if he'd thaid it himthelf," observed Johnnie, answering the old man's thought about a much older man.
"Did I say it wasn't, sir?
No, if ever there was a gentleman--it's not a bit of use argufying that all men are ekal.

I'm not ekal to either of them two." "In what respect ?" asked Crayshaw.
"In what respect?
Well, sir, this is how it is.