But if she did, it was all a pack of rubbish.

What had she to grumble at, I should like to know, with a satin gown on at five-and-six a yard ?" By this time Alan had moved on to another picture.

"This represents an unhappy marriage," he explained.

"At first sight you see nothing but two well-dressed people sitting at table; but as you look into the picture you perceive the misery in the woman's face and the cruelty in the man's, and you realize all that they mean." "Well, I see nothing more at second sight," whispered Mrs.Hankey; "except that the tablecloth might have been cleaner.

There's another of your grumbling fine ladies! Now for sure she'd nothing to grumble at, sitting so grand at table with a glass of sherry-wine to drink." "The husband looks a cantankerous chap," remarked Caleb.
"Poor thing! it's his liver," said Mrs.Bateson, taking up the cudgels as usual on behalf of the bilious and oppressed.