A man should not make a toil of his pleasure." Lady Chiltern knew all about it, but Adelaide Palliser knew nothing.
Madame Goesler, when she observed the light-blue necktie, at once suspected the execution of some great intention.

Phineas was absorbed in his observation of the difference in the man.

In his pink coat he always looked as though he had been born to wear it, but his appearance was now that of an amateur actor got up in a miscellaneous middle-age costume.

He was sprightly, but the effort was painfully visible.

Lady Baldock said something afterwards, very ill-natured, about a hog in armour, and old Mrs.Burnaby spoke the truth when she declared that all the comfort of her tea and toast was sacrificed to Mr.Spooner's frock coat.