You only make your time at the top so much the shorter." "I hope you'll find that I'm all right, sir.

I don't mean to be idle." "Pray don't.

Of course, you know, I speak to you very differently from what I should do if you were simply going away from my office.

What I shall have to give Florence will be very little--that is, comparatively little.

She shall have a hundred a year, when she marries, till I die; and after my death and her mother's she will share with the others.