She had advanced her imaginary omelette to the critical stage at which the butter was to be thrown in--that vaguely-measured morsel of butter, the size of your thumb.

Mrs.Wragge sat lost in contemplation of one of her own thumbs, and shook her head over it, as if it failed to satisfy her.
"Don't be shocked," proceeded the captain; "don't be astonished.
Swindler is nothing but a word of two syllables.

S, W, I, N, D--swind; L, E, R--ler; Swindler.

Definition: A moral agriculturist; a man who cultivates the field of human sympathy.

I am that moral agriculturist, that cultivating man.