'I appeal to his lordship.' 'I should decidedly say it was a mile,' remarked Lord Frederick, with a solemn aspect.
'It must be; it can't be a yard less,' said Mrs Nickleby.

'All down Newgate Street, all down Cheapside, all up Lombard Street, down Gracechurch Street, and along Thames Street, as far as Spigwiffin's Wharf.

Oh! It's a mile.' 'Yes, on second thoughts I should say it was,' replied Sir Mulberry.
'But you don't surely mean to walk all the way back ?' 'Oh, no,' rejoined Mrs Nickleby.

'I shall go back in an omnibus.

I didn't travel about in omnibuses, when my poor dear Nicholas was alive, brother-in-law.