The Miss Jawleyfords were uncommonly well got up, and Juliana, their mutual maid, deserved great credit for the impartiality she displayed in arraying them.
There wasn't a halfpenny's worth of choice as to which was the best.

This was the more creditable to the maid, inasmuch as the dresses--sea-green glaces--were rather dashed; and the worse they looked, the likelier they would be to become her property.

Half-dashed dresses, however, that would look rather seedy by contrast, come out very fresh in the country, especially in winter, when day begins to close in at four.

And here we may observe, what a dreary time is that which intervenes between the arrival of a guest and the dinner hour, in the dead winter months in the country.

The English are a desperate people for overweighting their conversational powers.