But he'll start off, you'll find.

Indeed he told me as much himself!' 'Indeed!' cried Dolly in a faint voice.

'In-deed!' 'Is the tea tickling your throat still, my dear ?' said the locksmith.
But, before his daughter could make him any answer, she was taken with a troublesome cough, and it was such a very unpleasant cough, that, when she left off, the tears were starting in her bright eyes.

The good-natured locksmith was still patting her on the back and applying such gentle restoratives, when a message arrived from Mrs Varden, making known to all whom it might concern, that she felt too much indisposed to rise after her great agitation and anxiety of the previous night; and therefore desired to be immediately accommodated with the little black teapot of strong mixed tea, a couple of rounds of buttered toast, a middling-sized dish of beef and ham cut thin, and the Protestant Manual in two volumes post octavo.

Like some other ladies who in remote ages flourished upon this globe, Mrs Varden was most devout when most ill-tempered.