She was full of business and undoubtedly was, as she had told us, devoted to the cause.
I was a little curious to know who a mild bald gentleman in spectacles was, who dropped into a vacant chair (there was no top or bottom in particular) after the fish was taken away and seemed passively to submit himself to Borrioboola-Gha but not to be actively interested in that settlement.

As he never spoke a word, he might have been a native but for his complexion.

It was not until we left the table and he remained alone with Richard that the possibility of his being Mr.Jellyby ever entered my head.

But he WAS Mr.Jellyby; and a loquacious young man called Mr.Quale, with large shining knobs for temples and his hair all brushed to the back of his head, who came in the evening, and told Ada he was a philanthropist, also informed her that he called the matrimonial alliance of Mrs.Jellyby with Mr.Jellyby the union of mind and matter.
This young man, besides having a great deal to say for himself about Africa and a project of his for teaching the coffee colonists to teach the natives to turn piano-forte legs and establish an export trade, delighted in drawing Mrs.Jellyby out by saying, "I believe now, Mrs.Jellyby, you have received as many as from one hundred and fifty to two hundred letters respecting Africa in a single day, have you not ?" or, "If my memory does not deceive me, Mrs.Jellyby, you once mentioned that you had sent off five thousand circulars from one post-office at one time ?"--always repeating Mrs.Jellyby's answer to us like an interpreter.

During the whole evening, Mr.Jellyby sat in a corner with his head against the wall as if he were subject to low spirits.