She had been educated at a time when easy-chairs were considered vicious, and among people who regarded all easy postures as being so; and she could still boast, at seventy-six, that she never leaned back.

"Would you mind shutting the window?
I'm so warm that I'm afraid of the draught." "You don't mean to say that you've walked from King Street," said Alice, doing as she was desired.
"Indeed I do,--every step of the way.

Cabs are so ruinous.

It's a most unfortunate thing; they always say it's just over the two miles here.

I don't believe a word of it, because I'm only a little more than the half-hour walking it; and those men will say anything.