'The gravy alone, is enough to add twenty years to one's age, I do assure you.' 'Lor'!' cried the two Miss Pecksniffs.
'The anxiety of that one item, my dears,' said Mrs Todgers, 'keeps the mind continually upon the stretch.

There is no such passion in human nature, as the passion for gravy among commercial gentlemen.

It's nothing to say a joint won't yield--a whole animal wouldn't yield--the amount of gravy they expect each day at dinner.

And what I have undergone in consequence,' cried Mrs Todgers, raising her eyes and shaking her head, 'no one would believe!' 'Just like Mr Pinch, Merry!' said Charity.

'We have always noticed it in him, you remember ?' 'Yes, my dear,' giggled Merry, 'but we have never given it him, you know.' 'You, my dears, having to deal with your pa's pupils who can't help themselves, are able to take your own way,' said Mrs Todgers; 'but in a commercial establishment, where any gentleman may say any Saturday evening, "Mrs Todgers, this day week we part, in consequence of the cheese," it is not so easy to preserve a pleasant understanding.